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'A view of the Prospect of Whitby public house in Wapping' by George S Crossley (1919-1973)
"Yesterday, some lunatic was telling me that one day people will be paying nearly £10 for a pint and nearly £15 for a pack of fags. Bloke was utterly off his head".
I (@VinnieSullivan) used to frequent this venue in my youth. After an evening in #Wanstead, #SouthWoodford or elsewhere, we'd often head to a club that had kept it's pub name. The Rising Sun (20 #Woodford new road) rested in a forested area of #Walthamstow tucked between #Leytonstone and #Woodford. My family once drank in the actual pub itself, I simply visited it's shadow in order to chat up women and have a decent enough reason to stay out late. Little did I realise that I, thinking as a mere youth, joined in the decline of #Britain's pubs. We all know that we cannot turn back time, but few of us truly learn from our mistakes in the hope of a better future. It's a short walk from where I was born (#WhippsCross hospital #Leytonstone, #London, #E11) and sits within the tree's of #Epping forest, a realm I know and love. This part of the forest named #GilbertsSlade. I remember the warmth I felt leaving in the early hours after a skinful upon seeing that I was within the forest I love.
A crowd gathers outside the 'Frying Pan' public house on #BrickLane in #Whitechapel, East #London during the 1880s. Brick Lane is now a graveyard of pubs. Instead, one is met with a baragement of graffiti. This photo was taken during the time that the Whitechapel Murders (Jack the Ripper murders) were taking place. If only we could hear what they were saying. #RIP 🍻
The Klondyke Bar was a pub in #Belfast, Northern #Ireland, that was built in 1872 and located in the #SandyRow area.

McAdam Street, Sandy Row, #Belfast
📸 Bill Kirk, 1974
The “George the Fourth Tavern,” Clare Market #RIP

#ClareMarket is a historic area within #CentralLondon located within the parish of St #ClementDanes to the west of #LincolnsInnFields, between the #Strand and #DruryLane, with #VereStreet adjoining its western side. It was named after the food market which had been established in Clement's Inn Fields, by John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare. Much of the area and its landmarks were immortalised by #CharlesDickens in The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge and Sketches by Boz.
Forwarded from Vinnie Sullivan
Good company is expensive, but brilliant company is priceless. 🤝🍻
The Dolphin Inn – Heigham Street, #Norwich, #England - #RIP

Formerly a house known as Bishop Hall’s Palace that's supposed to have been built for the Sheriff of Norwich, Richard Brown. It was damaged by an incendiary bomb upon which the owners, Steward & Patteson, rebuilt the it after the war and it was reopened as a pub in 1960. By 1999, the owners at the time decided to close the pub and later offered it for sell up. In 2001 it was damaged by a FIRE🧐... and has since become a chiropractic practice.

@VinnieSullivan
🍷 This bottle of #wine is estimated to date back to between 325 and 350 AD, making it almost 1,700 years old. The 'Speyer wine bottle' is the oldest known unopened bottle of wine. Today it display in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, #Germany

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