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Kings Head
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Date of photo: 1999 |
Picture source: Ken Jacobs |
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The Kings Head was situated at
44 Middlesex Wharf, Mount Pleasant Hill. This pub closed in 1999 and was demolished in 2005. |
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Source:
Colin Price |
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To get to this pub you had to go through one of James Latham's wood yards,
avoiding loading lorries and fork lift trucks as you went. The photo was
taken just after closure in 1999. |
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Ken Jacobs |
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This canal-side pub was present by 1851 and by
1886 was tied to the Mann, Crossman & Paulin Brewery of Whitechapel. Quoits
could be played here in the 1880s. It survived the slum-clearances in the
area of the 1930s and was partially rebuilt at around this time. It closed
in 1999 and was demolished soon afterwards – the Hackney
Gazette reporting
that “just as the
demolition company was about to start tearing it down, two bedraggled
squatters scampered out of the building just in the nick of time”. |
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Stephen
Harris |
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My uncle Arthur wyatt
owned The Kings Head through 1950s-late 1960s. My fondest memories were the
Christmas parties the whole family had upstairs in the big room , my uncle
Arthur played the piano and family members would get up and sing. I have
some recordings from a few of the parties that my elder brother did on a old
grundig real to real. My dad worked behind the bar every Saturday and Sunday
, my uncle Arthur played the piano and clavinette( a small kind of organ ) .
The pub was magic. It had a boat house in the garden where racing boats were
kept. The pubs garden backed right on to the river Lee. I remember playing
with my aunties dogs Trixie and Tina in the garden. I’m 68 now but the
memories are embossed |
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Dave Wyatt (December
2019) |
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Date of photo: 1999 |
Picture source: Ken Jacobs |
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