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Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address, i.e. use the search box below. The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs, beer retailers, taverns and hotels; and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940. All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); is NOT available for commercial usage without explicit permission. Many of the Pubs are still open, as I do not differentiate between dead and open Pubs. The site is updated every day, mainly during pub opening hours. Please contact: Kevan with any updates and additional details to the site/s. Thanks.
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Historical Pubs in London Index

Aldgate - East Ham, Forest Gate - Spitalfields , St Alban - St Margarets, St Martin - St Thomas, Stoke Newington - Woolwich

A few random images of the many thousands of London pub images on the London & South UK pub history site:

Beaufoy Arms, 18 Lavender Hill, Battersea East
Beaufoy Arms, Lavender Hill
Blue Anchor, 251 Southwark Park Road, SE16 - in July 2007
Blue Anchor, Southwark Park Road
Three Jolly Butchers, Warwick lane in 1868, near the Royal College of Physicians
Three Jolly Butchers, Warwick Lane
Colet Arms, 94 Whitehorse Road - in September 2006
Coles Arms, Whitehorse Road
Albion, Lauriston Road - circa 1870
Albion, Lauriston Road
Angel, Rotherhithe - in 1949
Angel, Rotherhithe Street
Hop Pole, 14 Gambia Street, SE1 - in 1972
Hop Pole, Gambia Street
Lord Raglan, 61 St Martins le Grand - in February 2007
Raglan Hotel, St Martins le Grand

London, being a major metropolis has had a myriad of problems. The more pressing problems in Victorian times was the quality of the drinking water. I think that you can clarify the water supplies in this time as unsafe to drink. In addition to the many works by Charles Dickens, a philanthropist as well as a well known author, wrote considerably about the quality of life in London.

John Snow, physician (1813 - 1858) was an eminent physician who wrote about the effects of cholera. By 1853-54 he was able to prove that cholera was spread by contaminated water, i.e. sewage. John Snow was a working class person, the typical person which the Tory party are now attempting to block from further education by higher charges. Their remit is to bring in private investment to pay for further education, kill off the public sector (education, NHS etc), and generally find a way to make additional profits for their supporters; at the expense of the general public.

Hotels, Taverns, and Coffee Houses in 1822 from a Yorkshire Guide.

Aldgate, Aldersgate, All Hallows Barking, All Hallows Bread Street, All Hallows Honey Lane, All Hallows the Less, All Hallows Lombard Street, All Hallows London Wall, All Hallows Staining.
Barking, Battersea East, Battersea North West, Battersea South West, Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Billingsgate, Bow, BishopsgateBromley.
Camberwell (A - M), Camberwell part 2 ( N - Z), Canning Town, Chadwell Heath, Charterhouse, Chelsea, Christchurch Newgate Street, Clapham, Clerkenwell, Covent Garden, Cripplegate.
Dagenham, Deptford. - East Ham. - Forest Gate, Fulham. - Greenwich.
Hackney, Holborn, Holy Trinity Less, Holy Trinity Minories. - Ilford, Islington. - Kensington.
Lambeth part1 (A - G), Lambeth part 2 (H - O), Lambeth part 3 (P - Y), Lewisham, Leyton, Leytonstone, Limehouse.
Marylebone, Mile End.  - Newington, North Woolwich. - Paddington, Plaistow, Poplar. - Ratcliffe, Rotherhithe.
Shadwell, Shoreditch, Silvertown, Soho, Southwark Christchurch, Southwark St George Martyr, Southwark St John Horselydown, Southwark St Olave, Southwark St Saviours, Southwark St Thomas, Spitalfield.
St Alban Wood Street, St AlphageSt Andrew by Wardrobe, St Andrew Hubbard, St Andrew Undershaft, St Anne & St Agnes, St Anns Blackfriars, St Bartholomew, St Bartholomew at Exchange, St Benet Pauls Wharf, St Brides.
St Clement Danes, St Clement Eastcheap, St Dionis Backchurch, St Dunstan in East, St Dunstan in West, St Ethelburga, St Faith under St Pauls, St George Bloomsbury, St George Hanover Square, St George in the East, St George Martyr, St Giles in the Fields, St Gregory by St Pauls, St Helen Bishopsgate, St James Dukes Place, St James Garlickhithe, St John the Baptist Walbrook, St John Zachary, St Katherine Coleman, St Katherine Creechurch, St Lawrence Jewry, St Leonard Eastcheap, St Leonard Foster Lane.
St Luke, St Magnus Martyr, St Margaret Moses, St Margaret New Fish Street, St Margaret Pattens, St Martin Ludgate, St Martin Orgars, St Martin Outwich, St Martin Pomfroy, St Martins in Fields, St Martin Ludgate, St Martin Vintry, St Mary Abchurch, St Mary Aldermanbury, St Mary Aldemary, St Mary at Hill, St Mary Colechurch, St Mary Magdalen Milk Street, St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, St Mary Staining, St Mary Somerset, St Mary Woolnoth.
St Michael Bassishaw, St MIchael Cornhill, St Michael Crooked Lane, St Michael Queenhithe, St Michael le Querne, St Michael Wood Street, St Mildred Bread Street, St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Nicholas Olave, St Olave Hart Street, St Olave Silver Street.
St Pancras, St Pancras Soper Lane, St Peter Cornhill, St Peter WestcheapSt Peter Sepulchre, St Stephen Coleman, St Stephen Walbrook, St Swithin London Stone, St Thomas Apostle.
Stoke Newington, Stratford, Strand,
Thames Haven, Tottenham, Tower.
Walthamstow, Wapping, West Ham, Westminster St James, Westminster St John, Westminster St Margaret, Whitechapel, Whitefriars, Woolwich.

These Pubs in London are London landmarks - use this information to find your way around London [past & present] , and to give you a pointer to searching for other ancestors. I have to point out that I have purposefully used the 1881 census to place a London Publican in a particular Parish. This does not always compare favourably with modern Postal addresses, but there are a couple of different search engines  - USE THE SEARCH ENGINES! How many times have you given directions, that included Pubs as a landmark, think of this London Public Houses site as the historical directory to London.

Ancestors were meant to be difficult to find.- Try searching for them.

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Please feel free to email me with any new detail you may have about any Essex or London Pub / Public House / Beer House / Tavern etc.

Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address. The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940. The site is updated every day. Contact: Kevan with any updates and additions.
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All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); it is NOT available for commercial usage without explicit permission.
The historical trade directory and census listing of all of London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire Oxfordshire, and Dorset. If you are searching for a historical address, try the census and street directory database. This is a Victorian view on the streets of london and the south of England.

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