Public Houses, Inns, Taverns & Hotels in London & Pub directory in 1991
A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer
Houses and Hotels in London.
I am using the site listings in the first instance, all
supplied by Keith Emmerson -
East London & City CAMRA.
The 1991 edition of the East London Beer Guide.
Postcode Index
introduction
This is the third edition of the East London & City Beer Guide. The area
covered is huge, from Fleet Street eastwards to the boarders of Essex, and from
the Thames northwards to Chingford: over 1000 pubs in all.
PUBLISHED BY
The East London & City Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale
Ltd; ISBN No.1 85249 055 1; COPYRIGHT: The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. 1991.
SCOPE OF THIS GUIDE
This East London & City Beer Guide includes all
public house but only those with real ale get a full description.
Establishments that demand an entrance or membership fee have been omitted,
as have those calling themselves brassieres/restaurants/bars that sell no
real ale.
The area covered is from the City postal districts EC1 to
EC4 and from E1 in the west to E18 in the east. Though three pubs in E4 are
uniquely also in Essex, pubs in Essex are covered by the Essex Beer Guide, a
new edition for 1991 is available from the address below.
Since the publication of our last guide in 1986
there have been major changes in the number of pubs breweries are allowed to
own. As a consequence Grand Met (Watney/Truman) have stopped brewing (there
are some that maintain they never started!). Trumans closed their Brick Lane
brewery in 1989 and the history of major brewing in the East End came to a
close. See article elsewhere on Brewery History. As a result the variety of
real ale has diminished. Five years back a visit to a Watney and Truman pub
have resulted in the sampling of seven real ales: Combes, Stag, Trumans
Best, Bitter and Sampson. Today the same visit would net but three.
Grand Met are not alone for the reducing the number of their real ales. ,
Friary Meux and Benskins are increasingly rare in the East End and in the main
have been replaced by the bland Tetley that like Websters, is shipped down from
Yorkshire.
As we went to press Charrington announced the closure of their
Springfield Brewery. is brewed there and already is concern that the beer
will be phased out. It must change in flavour if it is to be brewed
elsewhere and again other beers are being shipped in from elsewhere.
and Stones have already appeared in some Bass pubs.
Belhaven, (from Scotland) bought a number of pubs throughout England from Grand Met and
Brent Walker but none of their real ale is supplied to them. The pubs that
were real with Watney have gone keg since and any real ale sold in them is
that of Courage, with who they have a trading agreement. Belhavens motives
remain a mystery within CAMRA.
The pubs.
Outside the City area many pubs have closed and there are five in the E14 area
(Poplar / Dockands), waiting to be demolished as part of new roads/road
widening schemes. In the E1 Stepney, and Aldgate area instead of waiting for
the demolishers balls, public houses have changed use. Two have become
restaurants, one a cash and carry, another a joinery workshop and a fourth
an off licence.