London's Roughest Pub Crawl 🇬🇧

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Join me and Danny from the excellent YouTube channel @honestplaces as we explore Tower Hamlets, the old East End of London. This is a notoriously multicultural and edgy borough that was recommended to me by none other than the viewers of this channel as the "Roughest Borough in London"! What better way to find out for ourselves than a good wander and mingle amongst the area's infamous rough pubs!

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[IamHedgehog]

The blind beggar is a tourist pub, rough it is not. As a northerner who bin around pubs in tower hamlets, bethnal and pretty much all east London many times never had an issue. Most people just chilling in their locals not wantng unnecessary grief. Just cos a pub looks "rough" doesn't mean the people are not sound, most are salt of the earth

[ncross]

Looking for rough pubs during the day is something somebody who really doesn't want to find a rough pub would do. Try going at 9pm.

[thetony]

All Respect for the 1st male police officer, very good manor, good sense of his surroundings and not intimidating at all, this is how police officers in this country should behave. GOOD FOR YOU MATE.

[tjfSIM]

I think when people talk about 'flat roof' pubs, they're referring to the 1960s blocks you often find on some of the rougher housing estates. They're not talking about Victorian buildings that just happen to have flat rooves.

[oliverdking]

95% of people would instantly judge that first guy, but he was incredibly insightful and spoke a lot of sense. Dont judge a book by its cover!

[kvb]

Bit unfair on The Blind Beggar. It's a lovely pub with lovely staff. The East End is and always has been a melting pot of different cultures and I love the area.

[timothyabraham]

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[DeathcoreDashcam]

That lad at the start speaks soooo much sense and truth

I've lived in the Borough of Ealing for 7 years. I (a white, British male) feel the minority here & 100% am discriminated against because of the fact I'm white

[andrewsteele]

I had a pint in the Benwell Arms in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was the early 90's and I am expat Englishman from Australia. I was out by myself. So, I thought I would be a tourist and just get a beer and chat to the locals. Well, I have never drunk a beer so fast. No one would speak to me. That night I told me local friends I had been to the pub. You could have heard a pin drop. They were amazed, that I had got out with my skin. I wondered if they were just winding me up. So, the next day I went back to explore the area. Only to find shops windows covered in heavy mesh, burnt out cars in the street. Not a policeman in sight. It was a real eye opener. Great Channel, I have subscribed., Cheers from Oz.

[polygamous]

i UNDERSTAND SOME PEOPLE may have had different experiences But as a Greek Cypriot who came here as a young teenager in all honesty i have never experience any form of racism against me at all, so I can say with confidence the native British/English people are Not racist

[MATTY]

My mum was working a nurse in Bethnal Green in the 70's when he first met my dad. This was only a few years from the Krays and there was still a presence of East End gangsters.
She mentioned that was very safe to go out in and while the place had a reputation everyone was polite and wouldn't tolerate antisocial behaviour. It was a stark contract from Coventry where she had worked previously.

[missmuffet]

Flat roof pubs are usually found on council estates and usually rough as toast.

[ryanmaxwell]

Your mate is talking shit about the blind beggar pub. I've been going in there for a couple of years and it's not filthy at all. It even has a nice beer garden

[that_shye_again_dpc]

I’m a local, and the Blind Beggar is now a gastro pub, it got refurbished about a decade ago, sticky carpets gone, bullet in the wall removed and a fancy beer garden, it used to be rougher, but like anywhere round there, keep ya nut down, stay humble and you’ll get no bother.
Hungerford Arms is my local, the lads won’t appreciate a camera in there, that’s a definite 😂
It’s a vibrant multicultural area, try it after dark then you’ll see why it’s been labelled the roughest borough

[Notafraidofthedark]

I lived in Bethnal green 2016 til last year and never felt safer. Its a brilliant place to live and nothing like he's presenting it

[luketargett]

Really liked that first guy, seems incredibly wise.

[martynkaglund]

I stayed in tower hamlets for a while in 2005, staying at my Asian Australian g/fs flat in an old council estate block.
She wasn't local and didn't know anyone but she blended in due to her skin tone.
One night by myself walking back
I got circled by a crew of young local Asian lads.
About 7 of them started punching me in the head. They didn't want my belongings.
They just wanted to fuck me up.
One little guy all excited jumping up and down infront of me said I'm gonna stab him and I pushed one aside and ran for my life towards the tower block door.
They chased me and managed to catch me before I could close the door .
They continued to beat the shit outta me this white boy until the leader said he's had enough and they left.
I lived in many shady parts of South and east London over 12 years and witnessed the riots first hand in Peckham.
London is a crazy city that behind all the tourist site seeing vibes its can be a very dangerous place.
Broken, bruised and one titanium plate in my jaw later I was happy to live to tell the story.

[peakyblinder]

Never drink in a flat roof pub .
Unlucky ... Truest words ever !!!

[stevegoldy]

It was tough for me to hear the guy with the beard speak. That interview took place in Brayford Square, Stepney and i grew up a 20 second walk from there. Like him i always felt like an outcast there. 90% of the population are asain and it's a tough place to grow up. There were times when staff would look past me and serve asains behind me in the queue and i was always made to feel like i didn't belong. 11 years ago i moved to another part of Tower hamlets called Bow. The Asian community here makes up 30% and they are so much more friendly and inclusive. This is a truly multicultural and vibrant part of London unlike Stepney. I hope you will return to Tower hamlets one day and explore Bow, Poplar and the Isle of Dogs. Whilst it is the rougher part of Tower Hamlets it's also the more diverse and by far the best part.