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Picture source: Pat Jolly
The Bridge House was situated at 23 Barking Road. This was a famous music pub where many famous rock musicians played. It closed in the early 1980s and was demolished in 1999. A replacement venue called Bridgehouse2 has since been built in nearby Bidder Street.
Source: Colin Price
The Bridge House was the seminal rock venue in East London and the first pub in the world with its own record label. Throughout the seventies and eighties it was a regular home to such bands as Iron Maiden, Depeche Mode, The Blues Band and Secret Affair as well as the Bridge House generated Wasted Youth. The Bridge House shut its doors to live music in 1982 and was bulldozed into the ground a couple of years later. The Bridge House is still remembered fondly by all that have played and visited the pub on the Canning Town roundabout, beneath the pylons.
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Me and my friends used to drink in there as we were mad on the live music there. We would only buy 1 pint and were there until chucking out time. I can always remember Glen who used to serve us looking daggers at us. I was never sure whether it was because we were underage (15) or that we were never going to spend much in there. We were sort of protected by Murph (Darren). I said to Murph once, does your brother ever smile? And he said “Glen thinks you are a bunch of wankers” from then on I made sure Terry or one of the staff served me in case I got chinned by him. If we didn’t have any other choice of a bar server we would get Nikki Lowe to get them in
Mark Kavanagh (March 2022)
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Name Dates Comments Joan Cobern 1968/1970 Loved going to the Bridge House with my friend Lorraine Weller. Enjoyed the music and atmosphere.
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Site of Bridge House, February 2017	Picture source: Pat Jolly