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The
Jolly Anglers was situated at
Middlesex Wharf. This canal-side, originally riverside, pub was present
before 1800 and was rebuilt in around 1840. A sale notice of 1846 describes
the Jolly Anglers as having a handsome tea room with two fireplaces, three
bedrooms, a small dining room, a bar and a bar parlour, a tap room, a
kitchen and a cellar – it was something of a destination pub and by 1860 at
least had a side-line in hiring out punts and skiffs for pleasure use on the
Lee Navigation. It was also in 1879 the place appointed in the area by the
Royal Humane Society for ‘receiving persons apparently drowned or dead, at
which drags and other apparatus are kept”. The pub closed and was converted
to industrial use in 1908 and it was demolished in 1930 when the whole area
was cleared on public health grounds because of regular flooding and
unsanitary conditions. In its latter days at least, it had been a Whitbread
Brewery pub. |
