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The Royal Oak was situated at 110 Union Street (today the eastern end of Jamaica Road). This pub closed in 1932 and has now been demolished.

Source: Ian Chapman

My G,G, uncle Joseph Daniels appears to have been the landlord of this pub on the 1891 census. He had also been publican of another pub near Tooley street, I am not sure of the name of the pub. His brother Moses was publican of The Middleton Arms in Foregate, Whitechapel. Along with their brother Abraham they were music hall performers playing violin, banjo and mandolin, in one review they are described as " playing in a comedic style similar to Paganini". The brothers performed at the Royal Alhambra Palace in Leicester Square and toured the continent, performing in Paris and Berlin. Joseph performed for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle. He later became a music teacher and manufactured banjos whose trade name was The Defiance.

David Parkin (October 2021)

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