A Few Lost Pubs Of East #London

Here are a few images of lost pubs which have since been renovated or demolished. I wonder how many you'll recognise. Some are in the east end, others are in locations once classed as #Essex.

📹 @VinnieSull1van
@ChelseaDan5

[frasegfunk]

My Great Grandads local was included, The Spotted Dog - Forest Gate

[AdrianLee-ig]

The people that used these old pubs are no longer living locally. The older generation has largely died out (or are in care homes), and their children have moved far away. Today, the people living in the East End are disproportionately of immigrant extract and pubs were not part of their culture. Added to that, there is the significant factor that Muslims are prohibited from drinking alcohol.

Whilst is true that many new arrivals saw the pubs there when they arrived, I suspect that few of them bothered to visit them. This is not unusual really. In recent years Chai Tea houses and Shisha lounges have opened, but most White Brits walk past them without ever going in. Why? Simple, it isn't part of our culture.

There is one other factor that has killed many of these pubs, namely they weren't very nice. From the 1960s onwards, the beer was often exclusively fizzy, tasteless keg rubbish and no food was served. Some of them became run down over time and they came to almost exclusively contain the elderly alcoholics who now inhabit Wetherspoons during the daylight hours. Landlords came and went rapidly and, finally, they became just viewing centres for Sky Sports. The old community pub notion died in the East End, along with the community it served.