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Picture source: Stephen Harris

The Old George was situated at 14 Whitechapel Road. This pub was present before 1793, the date when it was acquired by the Thomas Newnham Brewery of Goodmans Field.  Newnham’s were later acquired by the Combe & Co. Brewery which in turn became part of Watney Combe Reid.  During the nineteenth century, the pub was variously called the George and the George & Dragon, being rebuilt and becoming the Old George by around the turn of the nineteenth century.  The pub closed in around 1911 and the attractive, Art Deco, lime green tiling was added later during a long period when the premises were a photographic studio.  It has recently become one of a very large number of fried chicken shops lining Whitechapel Road

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