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Date of photo: 1955	Picture source: M.Wraight
The New Ferry was situated on Angel Road. Later known as Cooks Ferry Inn, it was demolished around 1990 for road widening.
Source: T C
The Cooks Ferry Inn, an ancient 'Watering Hole for thirsty 'Bargees', plying their trade up & down the River Lea from the late 18th century right throughout the next 150 years evolved to become one of the most revered early venues for Jazz/ Blues/ & progressive bands during the late 1950's throughout the 1960's) - most of which went on to become the most influential 'Bands' of all time ! Everyone from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers / Fleetwood Mac / The Who / Free / Savoy Brown / Chicken Shack / Ansley Dunbar's Retaliation / Pete Brown's Piblokto / The Graham Bond Organisation / Led Zeppelin to name but a few - graced the downstairs cellar stage of this otherwise rather out of the way innocuous venue every Monday night. Cream played their second ever gig here in 1966 ! This pub nurtured & undoubtedly witnessed some of the greatest talent in the music world. It was finally demolished some time in the 1980's to make way for a flyover serving the North Circular Road. Today, the cobbled stone bank of the River Lea flowing under the North Circular at this point, is the only witness to the vans full of Marshall Amp Stacks that once unloaded there.
Michael Wraight (August 2020)
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Date of photo: 1968	Picture source: Michael Wraight