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Exploring the historic pubs of Spitalfields - close to London's Liverpool Street station - apparently the busiest station in the UK!
As always I took a look at the architecture, the interiors, and the history of the pubs, plus a quick glimpse of the beer on offer.
Along the way lots of historical tidbits, such as the sad tale of Nathaniel Bentley - AKA Dirty Dick, pondering what happened to the dead cats, the "No person to be served twice" rule at Dirty Dick's, and that interesting this was also the case for a while at (a former incarnation of) William's Ale and Cider House round the corner. We follow a bit of the history of the Ten Bells, as it tries to keep in step with the changing number of bells at neighbouring Christ Church. At the Golden Heart we discuss Sandra Esquilant and the parallels between this pub and the Soho's Colony Room Club as a venue for artists. Finally at the Pride of Spitalfields we ponder whether this really could be a pub named after a beer...?
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Dirty Dick's
5:51 William's Ale and Cider House
9:23 Ten Bells
13:26 Golden Heart
17:54 Pride of Spitalfields
21:56 Outro

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@martinhowe1422 День назад

Excellent series. As a City of London student in the 70's I remember regularly frequenting Dirty Dicks. If my memory serves, there was a basement bar which was covered from floor to ceiling in beer mats and letters from tourists and the like. A total fire trap. Of special interest was a dessicated, mummified cat, suspended from the ceiling by a rope that was secured from behind the bar. At various times, the barkeeps would loosen the rope and the cat would slowly descend, normally on top of any attractive woman the barman had his eye on. Ah, the good old days eh?

@michaelsheils3214 2 месяца назад

Excellent video, love the Pride, a treasure and my local and also one of the last pubs in London that isn’t a Wetherspoons where you can order 2 pints and get change from a tenner.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Michael - the Pride must be a fantastic local! I was very pleasantly surprised by the prices, and the atmosphere was great.

@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian 2 месяца назад

Hi Tweedy. The Williams Ale and Cider House looks like a pub crawl in itself. Exceptional range of ales and ciders. As always thank you for an incredibly interesting tour of classic London pubs accompanied by your exemplary research. 👏👏👍😀🍺 PS. Enjoy a well deserved break. 👍😀

@Drod0272 2 месяца назад

Just stumbled on your channel and must say your content is thoroughly enjoyable! I was always remiss that there wasn't better coverage of London's historical pubs on RU-vid. As a Yank that loves to visit the UK and attempt to visit as many pubs as possible, your channel is a gem. You are both informative and entertaining! You are doing God's work, so please keep it up. Making my way through all your videos, so thank you. Raising you a pint of Harvey's Sussex Best in spirit. Unfortunately I am in NYC, so must wait for a London visit to do so otherwise. Cheers!

@elvis197797 2 месяца назад

Brilliant as ever tweedy. A joy to see these pubs again. Thanks mate 😎

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@davidclare4983 2 месяца назад

Tweedy: yet another wonderful trip around some London pubs. Every time I watch your pub videos, I have an urge to go and visit them. Not an urge I can easily follow, as I live in the Pacific North West. Cheers!

@eddavis1832 2 месяца назад

Haha…I openly laughed when you visited “The Williams” as, I too, have on several occasions dismissively sauntered past what I thought was a modern bar. Thank you for peaking my future interest. Clearly, my pick of the litter is “Pride of Spitalfields” where a couple of years back I over-enjoyed a post-Joolz Guides “Ripper” tour with my fellow travelers. As always, you made my day…well done…Cheers!!! 🍻

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Ed! I think it was probably the "Ale and Cider House" suffix on the Williams which put me off - which sounds ridiculous given that I very much like both ale and cider, and it did indeed have a better than average selection of both. It just didn't sound like a traditional pub name!

@sisselbrenna5769 2 месяца назад

Thanks for all the time and effort you put into making these videos. The information you gather on the architecture and the history is just excellent. Always looking forward to the next one. To those of you who haven't SUBSCRIBED yet: PLEASE, DO!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the kind words! I'm absolutely an amateur on all the subjects I talk about in these videos but it's satisfying what you can do with a couple of days of uninterrupted study!

@liberty_and_justice67 2 месяца назад

Wonderful break in the day! Thank you🎉

@harlanthejester 2 месяца назад

Throroughly enjoyed the video. Sunday night is my Tweedy Pub perusal evening and you are taking a break for a few weeks? What! seriously have a good break and loook forward to the next one... Cheers.

@liamkatt6434 2 месяца назад

Thank you for yet another really interesting video. In 1974 I was visiting the Liverpool Street area and my father told me to be sure to call in at Dirty Dicks which he in turn had visited in around 1936 while working in London. I went in and the bar was on the right. There was sawdust on the floor but nothing particularly 'dirty'. I reported back to my father rather disappointed. He suggested next time I went that way to try visiting the basement bar which I did. This was totally different with all sorts of curios including five dead cats (I thought they were monkeys), dust everywhere, the ceiling covered with scribbled notes, usually cigarette packets, coins nailed or glued to the bar and banknotes from all over the world on the ceiling. A really interesting place to see. I am told that the basement bar is still open on certain days and candlelit. However, as you reported most of the curios have gone including thankfully, the poor cats.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Liam! I think the basement is something like a wine bar currently. I should probably have poked my nose in at least.

@truth.952 2 месяца назад

I took a friend to dirty dicks i hadnt been there since the 70s told them all about the amazing stuff all over the walls and ceiling .was soooooo disapointed to see it so sterile ..bloody idiots who moved all that stuff....it had so much character

@antonybrown4231 2 месяца назад

Very interesting take on some pubs I know really well. Back in my younger days day, late 1980's, when real ale was at it's lowest ebb the Romford Arms, AKA Pride of Spitalfields sold a very rare thing in those days, a beer from a micro-micro brewery! Crouch Vale, alongside Fullers LP. We would haul ourselves across East London to have a pint of Crouch Vale in this little pub before a curry in nearby Brick Lane. Around the corner was another traditional pub the Alma Arms (long ago closed) ran by Steve the Dane, a bit more edgy he had a side line in specialist entertainments for city gentleman. It was one of those east-end boozers who never rand the last bell but merely pulled across a curtain and began a private party. Drunkenness and trouble was rare just in case there was some dodgy gangster type lurking in the wings, you behaved yourself in there!

@robcoles8493 2 месяца назад

Hey Tweedy - I'm enjoying that video. You know my old pub grounds are fleet street/chancery lane/west end/Waterloo - and the only one of these pubs in this video ive been to is Dirty Dicks. The others in the backstreets were a revelation. I have meetings near Liverpool Street next month and will get off the beaten track afterwards to check a couple out. Thanks for all the time and effort on the research. Top man Tweedy.

@timothyjones9804 2 месяца назад

I’ve lived on Australia for 15 years now, and it’s probably a good 20 years since I’ve been in the Pride, hasn’t changed much.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

That's great to hear! Long may it stay the same.

@user-bi5fh1iz6b 2 месяца назад

As an eight-year-old in the very early 60s, I can recall being plonked outside DD's with a glass of lemonade and an Arrowroot biscuit, while my London half of the family 'got on it.' How times change. For the princely sum of 6d, the pub would sell envelopes containing a blue caricature of DD himself, and when placed on one's hand, the shape it attained showed one's emotion at the time. Sounds like one of those dodgy adverts in the then Saturday issue of the Daily Mirror (other media available).

@SlurpyDave254 2 месяца назад

My dad went to London once when he was young and the pub he'd always mention was Dirty Dicks..looks a great building John

@baileysbritain 2 месяца назад

Fantastic video Em, good for you 👍🌞

@razzle1964 2 месяца назад

Another jolly good trip down memory lane for me, thanks, Tweedy … lots of historical nuggets, too. ‘Williams Ale and Cider House’ (formerly known as The Ship, I gather) looks familiar. May have played my first game of darts there, early 80s, for our firms’ darts ‘society’ (which consisted mainly of messengers & what were known as ‘below stairs tradesmen’, for a what shall remain nameless Central Bank that celebrated its tercentenary in 1994😉). I digress. The THREE dartboards adds a little credence to my recollection. ‘Dirty Dicks’ … yep. Fallen in & out of there more times than I care to remember. Late opening hours & its proximity to Liverpool St was always a recipe for disaster; it would, usually, both precede AND follow a trip to Brick Lane for a ruby … after a session on the Flowers or Wethereds at the Dandy Roll (no longer there) which used to be situated underneath the Bank of America (no longer there) opposite Registrar’s Dept in New Change, EC4 (no longer there) at the end of Watling St (still there, last I checked).😉✌️

@AzureyeLDN 2 месяца назад

Great video. Been in all those pubs and was always interested in their history. The 10 Bells is pretty well known for the Jack the Ripper stories, outside you often see tour groups on “ripper walks” I’ve always found that obsession to be a bit creepy too 😅

@martynvasey-fu6hv 2 месяца назад

Enjoyed the video,i read that Miss Havisham from Great Expectations was inspired by the Dirty Dicks story.

@user-bi5fh1iz6b 2 месяца назад

Have you ever been to the Old Kings (sic) Head in Scrutton Street, EC2? Went there last year with my daughter for the first time since 1971 and nothing had really changed. I started work in said road back in '67 and can recall walking in (one bar only) only to be confronted by some lady, with a lion club on a lead! It's a listed building, with the outside covered by those wonderfully green glazed bricks. It was colloquially known as 'The Harry Bones' back in the day but nobody of the current staff had ever heard the pub referred to by that name.

@WalksInCamera 2 месяца назад

The Pride of Spitalfields looks the one to try for me. A unique looking pub and is probably a nice haven away from the busy Brick Lane. Thanks for the video!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

It's a great little boozer! Prices very reasonable too, especially for the area - you can still just about get a pint in there for under a fiver!

@WC21UKProductionsLtd 2 месяца назад

A really fascinating and varied collection of pubs here, Tweedy. I thought, "Jerusalem" just before you said the same about that relief on the top of Dirty Dicks. I don't know why, but I get an irrational level of enjoyment out of seeing things on pubs that reflect a former name! Looking at my notes - yes, I do take them when watching Tweedy Pubs - I have written down "architrave" in relation to The Williams Ale and Cider House. I think I caught sight of some old architrave in there, so possibly a small remnant of its historic fabric surviving there. Everything down from there was modern, as you said. The Pride of Spitalfields was so interesting. What a strange little place in a totally fabulous way. The exterior looked to me as though it had possibly been given one of those "Mediterranean" makeovers, that were in vogue back in the 70s. I could be wrong about that. Enjoy your RU-vid break. We all need them!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you Mr WC21! Glad to hear you also came to the conclusion of Jerusalem, although I couldn't quite put my finger on which building(s) that bit of stucco was supposed to depict. Perhaps the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? I cannot pretend to be even remotely knowledgeable about the buildings of Jerusalem, I only know them from occasional glimpses on the telly. Also great you spotted that architrave - that also stood out to me when I was reviewing that footage during editing, and throughout making this video I found myself warming to the Williams. I originally just added it to the list because I usually like to cover five pubs, and I thought it might be nice to include something with a better than average beer selection (I occasionally get comments on these videos along the lines of "interesting pub history but the beer at all of these places looks terrible", and I do sort of see their point!). The segment about the rules at the Williams was a book I only stumbled on while I was doing the editing, and overall it turned out to be a more interesting pub than I first anticipated. Yes the Pride of Spitalfields is a real oddity of a pub building isn't it? Great pub though.

@ysgolgerlan 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the video. Lovely to see all the old industries marked on the old maps. What about Brass Foundry - Fur, Skin Dressing & Dye Works. . Great. 👍

@frasegfunk9790 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much Tweedy! Really great video as usual, really love this channel, cant wait for the next one until then cheers 🍻

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@frasegfunk9790 2 месяца назад

@@TweedyPubsJust a suggestion maybe for next video Victoria, im sure there is a nice sprinkling of decent pubs in that area 👍🏻🍻

@Oscartherescuedog 2 месяца назад

Yet another expertly researched video John, thank you. I am currently poolside in Carvoeiro, Portugal quaffing a cold, crisp Vinho Verde and enjoying your video tour of wonderful London pubs! The last documentary that featured Keith Floyd (Keith meets Keith) recently popped up on my RU-vid feed and I watched it again having not seen it in quite some time…….sad to say Floyd was on his last legs at that point. Anyway, cheerio for a while 👍🏻

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Séan, and I hope you're having a great holiday! Yes I watched that "Keith meets Keith" documentary a while back and to be honest I almost regretted that I did - it really didn't paint the great man in a very sympathetic light, although perhaps it was just an honest reflection of how he was in his final years. I'd much rather remember him in happier times!

@Maitreya0208 2 месяца назад

Another great episode. Thanks as always!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@algonzales1809 2 месяца назад

I was in the Ten Bells circa 30 years ago whilst on an evening Ripper walking tour. The place had been converted into a ghastly goth like vibe with purple and red lighting in a poor attempt to make it spooky or whatever as others have mentioned. Walked straight out and found a proper boozer for a hand pulled pint and a ham and cheese toasty. Delighted they came to their senses and have restored it to respectability and good graces. Superb narration on this one Tweedy, very informative as usual. Enjoy your break, we are just heading into a warm summer here at the Jersey shore.

@andrewjohnson388 2 месяца назад

Yeh ..they actually changed the name in the 70's as Jack the Ripper .Ripper named drinks ..bit bad taste really ...went to it year ago ..as an old Londoner ...love the old pubs. The Market next to is being torn down ! ...I moved from London ..destroying its heart .....

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Al! Yes I think The Ten Bells on this visit did seem to be a reassuring example of a pub which has decided to just focus on being a pub! Nice staff as well. It was a lot better than I had remembered it being from my previous visit.

@andrewjohnson388 2 месяца назад

Yes ..very trendy now ..I studied the Ripper case ..The white Hart not far away still keeps its old style ...love the old Pubs..still going ...Decor still wonderful old deigns...Cheers ..Christ Church next to Ten Bells is most wonderful inside ..breath taking. x

@dirtywaterpj_dj 2 месяца назад

In the 1980s (I lived nearby in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s) the Ten Bells was called The Jack the Ripper. Thankfully good taste eventually prevailed. I believe the White Hart has been run by the same woman, Sandra, for an extraordinary umber of years. The now elderly lady was present on my last visit Gilbert’ & George live one or two streets away. I lived opposite the Pride of Spitalfields and it was rare back in those days for there not to be lock in. The interior hasn’t changed since those days. I hope you got to meet the pub cat.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Great to hear Sandra is still at the helm! Alas no sign of the cat on my visit to the Pride of Spitalfields. Looking through photos of the pub on Google Maps, all of the ones featuring the cat are from a few years ago now - I wonder if it might not be around any more?

@sidosbourn1884 2 месяца назад

@@TweedyPubs Sadly I believe Lenny the cat died as couple of years ago

@johnmorrison1680 2 месяца назад

Remember there used to be strippers at lunchtime in the Jack the Ripper. This culture has gone now, probably just as well. I also remember there used to be regular tourist parties who called at the pub as part of walking tours of the area.

@maksimlipecki232 2 месяца назад

Cheers Tweedy. You make amazing videos.

@markjones327 2 месяца назад

He’s the best 👍

@maksimlipecki232 2 месяца назад

💯

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you, very kind of you to say so!

@chrish2461 2 месяца назад

Another great video Tweedy! I'm fully supportive of the pub carpet! We haven't been to any of these pubs, but we need to get to at least the highlights. Have you checked out Edward Callow's "Old London Taverns" (from 1899)? He has several pages on Dirty Dick's and also mentions the "No man can be served twice" policy. He also refutes the "bride died on the wedding morning" story ("it is utterly unworthy of credence") and seems to attribute the dirtiness to "Richard" Bentley being an eccentric and a joker. Edward Callow seems to have been a visitor to the previous incarnation of Dirty Dick's when it was more a warehouse and he puts the date of the current pub as 1870. His book is probably more memoir than strict history but it's pretty entertaining 😄.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Chris! Very glad to hear of a fellow pub carpet enthusiast. No I haven't read the book you mention, but I will seek it out. I was a bit sceptical about the story around Dirty Dick's but the video was getting a bit long so I ended up dropping the bits where I presented some alternate theories. Bentley is certainly not the only person to have been given that nickname, it was also applied to highwayman Jerry Abershawe and there was a play (perhaps more of a musical?) about him in the 1840s. There's also the character of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations who has a similar tale - most sources suggest Dickens was inspired by the story of the pub, but I wonder if it might have been the other way round. Good to hear Edward Callow also dates the pub to the 1870s, I couldn't find any clear newspaper mentions of it (as Dirty Dick's) prior to that.

@garrymartin6474 2 месяца назад

My favourite Bar Person left the small market town where I live and when last I spoke to her was working at The Ten Bells. Nice to see Lacon's Falcon on the pumps at the William's a very pleasant bitter I recall when drunk in its native Norfolk. I don't know how it travels however

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Not sure if it was the same person but I chatted to a lady behind the bar at the Ten Bells and she was very nice: happy to talk about the history of the pub and the art on the walls. I'm not familiar with Lacon's Falcon but if I see it again I'll give it a go - thanks Garry!

@leemorris1360 2 месяца назад

Good afternoon, Tweedy. Enjoyed this episode as always. I occasionally find myself up in Liverpool Street Station and Brick Lane area. I have visited Dirty Dicks last year when in that area with my sister visiting a local exhibition. We enjoyed a nice sharing platter in there with sausage rolls, pork pots, scotch eggs, cheese and pickles, etc. Always goes down well with a few ales !!! Next time I am in the area, I will give the Williams Ale and Cider House a visit. I agree that judging on the exterior, if passing, I would probably think it might be a modern pub, but it seems they have an excellent selection of ale there. I noted a pump for "Landlord," - always a good sign 😄👍. The last pub, Pride of Spitalfields looks worth a visit too. Your excellent videos give me and my friends (we're all retirees now) even more ideas for our next mid week meet up and drink - the list that grows ever longer 🤣🤣 Cheers !!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Lee! Yes William's was definitely better than I expected, and I would happily go back. The Pride of Spitalfields was my favourite of this trip - it takes me back to how pubs used to be, including the smell (which of course I couldn't convey on video!) but I think all of these featured here have at least something going for them.

@andriswood5434 2 месяца назад

I still can't understand why the 10 Bells isn't a Goth Mecca to this day. For, obvious reasons.... However, I remember having my 1st pint there 25 years ago and at that time it was only open in the evenings and just for the tours. The East End was very different then, and this pub was a dive, albeit a glorious one. Still was a tourist trap nonetheless. I was pleased when it came under new management who turned it into a vibrant locals' pub again.

@paulturner487 2 месяца назад

Top work as always mate!!! What a beauty the Pride of Spitalfields is!!! And that CAMRA mirror is a gem 👌 I’ve got a few old pub mirrors and would love that one, pride of place in my home bar! I’m from the Midlands ( Birmingham) and I seem you mentioned you grew up in a Midland pub. What was the name of it and which town? I’ll give it a visit. Maybe we get a Blue Plaque installed! “Tweedy lived here” 😂 Thanks again for another great video, as always, keep up the good work 👍🍺🍺

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Paul! I don't think it's a very noteworthy pub today but when my parents had it, it was quite groundbreaking - a large range of real ales from across the region, dozens of single malts behind the bar and unpretentious home cooked food which championed the best traditional produce of the local area - particularly cheese! It was in the East Midlands (Leicestershire). Always busy, the locals loved the place, but somehow when we left the pub my parents were basically penniless. It's a tough business!

@paulturner487 2 месяца назад

@@TweedyPubs It’s true, hard work. Could you tell me the name of it? And location? I actually live in Meriden near Coventry now ( although I still say I live in Birmingham!) so I do go on pub tours all over the midlands!! Thanks again for your great channel 👍🍺🍺

@histmanuk Месяц назад

@@TweedyPubs Slowly working through your videos and enjoying every minute. As to the mirror I shared a flat in Leicester in the 1970s with Rich Berridge who designed the mirror. He produced a lot of great illustrative material for beer guides/festivals for CAMRA and went on to work for Penguin as an illustrator. Hard to believe that Leicester CAMRA soon celebrates 50 years of existence; Richard and I were on the first committee 🙂.

@TweedyPubs Месяц назад

@@histmanuk Thank you! It seems likely you might have known my dad then, as he was also involved in the Leicester branch of CAMRA in the 1970s. I have the 1977 CAMRA guide to Leicestershire and Rutland - dad was the general editor - a treasured possession!

@histmanuk Месяц назад

@@TweedyPubs I did know your dad. My name is two places down from his on the credits page of the 1977 guide; I wrote the Brewery History notes. I also have a copy of the 1976 programme for Leicester CAMRA's first Beer Festival (your dad wrote the introduction) and the Loughborough CAMRA guide to local pubs (1975) for which he was the editor and co-responsible for production. I could send you scanned copies if you don't have them, by some way or another.

@jumpinallans 2 месяца назад

Don't rest for too long, brother. You're doing great work - would love to shout you a beer or 12!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Hopefully just a week or two off then I'll be back at it!

@johnlocke6506 2 месяца назад

I drank in Dirty Dick's in the mid 1970's as I worked out of offices in St. Mary Axe which was very local. I can remember the dead cats including one which was on a spring loaded board on one of the bar pillars and was released and leapt out at unsuspecting customers randomly by the staff!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks John, that's a fantastic anecdote! Very hard to imagine anything like that being allowed to happen today...

@dirkbogarde44 2 месяца назад

Completely agree re Dirty Dicks........very disappointing now. Went on Saturday and it was packed with "lads". Excellent video btw.

@markjones327 2 месяца назад

Brilliant !! Thank you tweedy your the best 👍

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Mark!

@alanthomson5097 2 месяца назад

As usual very very intresting, thank you.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Alan!

@garymcguire8529 2 месяца назад

Back in the 1980's the Ten Bells was called the the Jack the Ripper.

@nigelwood4977 2 месяца назад

I worked on the railway and first visited in the late seventies and it’s exactly as it was then. The food bar when open must be the cheapest in London, you can get A sandwich or hot snack for £3/4 the last time I was there.

@JEFFERYSJOHNSON 2 месяца назад

Good job again. Been to the middle 2. Usually stops on the way back to Liverpool Street Station from the round trip to Brick Ln and Beigle Bake. Always appreciate the history of each pub. The Golden Heart is a great looking building but sometimes the execution has been a bit weak. Not sure how much of an Italian wine person you are but the Eataly by Liverpool Street has an amazing wine shop. Enjoy the time off and hurry back.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Yes I'm a fan of Eataly although it's a bit pricey isn't it? I did some shopping there before heading up to Northumberland earlier this year to cook Roman food next to Hadrian's Wall.

@kenbakie4590 2 месяца назад

Another great review Tweedy. I can remember the Ten Bells had a split personality in the 1990s, it used to have strippers who would perform their art in the bar at lunchtime. In the evenings, it was visited by tourists as part of a Jack The Ripper walking tour. I haven't been there for many years, but I believe there are no longer strippers performing there. BTW the lack of strippers is not the reason I haven't been there for some time.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Haha thanks Ken! Yes a bit hard to imagine them juggling those two very different atmospheres. It's only the second time I've been to the Ten Bells, the first as I mentioned in the video was a decade or so ago and then it seemed to be filled with trendy young people, and I remember feeling a bit out of place. Nice and quiet on this visit though and everybody remained fully clothed!

@tor6684 2 месяца назад

As usual, just brilliant.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@markjones327 2 месяца назад

Ps what are the small Statues on very top of the outside ten bells I can’t make them Out ? Thanks tweedy

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

I think they're just another example of "ball finials" aren't they? I should get a camera with a better zoom for times like this!

@AlexWilkinsonYYC 2 месяца назад

Awesome video. The research for these must take a while, I can understand why you'd want a break for a few weeks, haha.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Alex! Yes each of these videos takes a few days to make, with the research and then the editing - it's not that I don't enjoy it but I need to spend some time with family! Hopefully normal service will be resumed in a couple of weeks.

@henrygooner3397 2 месяца назад

Good video but surprised you didn’t mention that the Ten bells pub was actually called the Jack the Ripper in the 70s . I used to work opposite there as a teenager. Any reason? Or just debunking history 🤷🏿‍♂️

@chrisamies2141 23 дня назад

I'm wondering if the middle window in William's might once have been an off-sales window.

@JohnAleman1 2 месяца назад

The Trueman's pub had a 1930s make over feel to me another interesting crawl and to hear you grew up in a pub 🍻

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks John! Yes the Golden Heart definitely a 1930s pub in its current incarnation.

@peterrussell3854 2 месяца назад

Brolly is looking well, I see. Nice to see him out and about. 🙂

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Peter! I probably could have managed without it on this occasion as thankfully it was only light drizzle, but I have encountered a couple of major downpours on previous trips for these videos and didn't want to leave it to chance!

@alexserridge9008 2 месяца назад

Knew the pub and did building work in 1983 great guy owned it a electrician who worked in West London was involved in Reading Rock Festival and Marquee club but loved Fullers especially Pride so there's something to think about loved it there .

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Alex, good to know! I actually went to Reading Festival a couple of times, believe it or not. Many years ago now of course! The beer offering on site was always terrible but the Dad of one of my friends worked for Hall and Woodhouse at the time, so he'd give us a massive polypin of Badger to take along. Fun times!

@marram1 2 месяца назад

FP 11...refers to fire point (a hydrant) to allow firefighters to be able to locate where the nearest hydrant is on the pavement or road..invaluable when theres snow on the ground!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

That's great to know - thank you!

@sirperybLakeney Месяц назад

Regarding the Pride of Spitalfields and the Fullers connection -there may be more to it. The John Turner whose name is one of the partners in Fullers, Smith & Turner (and also Henry Smith too actually) came from the Ind & Smith company at the Star Brewery in Romford. Perhaps the John Turner & Sons brewery in Spitalfields has some connection to that same Turner family?

@histmanuk Месяц назад

I thought the same too and it seems to be the case: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller,_Smith_%26_Turner

@sirperybLakeney Месяц назад

@@histmanuk I can't see anything there about the John Turner & Sons brewery in Spitalfields.

@histmanuk Месяц назад

@@sirperybLakeney Yes, you are correct. Searching elsewhere I see that the Spitalfields brewery continued under the Turner name until 1890 so perhaps there were 2 John Turners (a popular name). I don't have access to the census records so can't check at the moment.

@sirperybLakeney Месяц назад

@@histmanuk My point was that it may be the same Turner family. Possibly a different branch that later died out and was inherited by the branch that was in the Fuller's partnership. That might explain the story of the switch to Fuller's from Ind Coope.

@apuldram 2 месяца назад

Excellent!

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@mrd64 2 месяца назад

What happened to The Gun on the other side of the market?

@AmyAmy-ob7vi 2 месяца назад

Ten bells jack the rippers local where his victims plyed there trade ladies of the night it was a gin house one of many at that time opposite spitals Field market a all night pub all his victims drank there at the time and is reputed to be haunted all were murdered within the back streets that surrounds the area of the pub

@kevinhouse7143 2 месяца назад

At The Pride of Spitalfields, is that an outdoor seating area off the first floor?

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

I couldn't see any way of getting to it from inside the pub so I assume it's a private roof terrace for the owners of the pub...?

@kevinhouse7143 2 месяца назад

@@TweedyPubs Or maybe some outside storage area?.. too bad... it looks like it might make a nice seating area.

@cuthbertvandervon-beige-he3428 Месяц назад

Best thing about the 10 Bells is the constant demands for change from the "homeless" in £300 trainers

@Micktyb 2 месяца назад

Excellent 👏when i worked in London visiting the local establishments was a very enjoyable experience 😁👍👍thanks

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Yes we are still blessed with some great pubs here in London.

@Micktyb 2 месяца назад

@@TweedyPubs yes indeed 🍺😁

@user-wb4pe9ys9t Месяц назад

Top-notch content, informative and engaging, keep up the good work Tweedy! I'm interested to know if these pubs take cryptocurrency for beer?

@RaymondCarson-rf1rg Месяц назад

not sure about that, but if you need to use crypto, I'd recommend getting a card from a non-bank service like Banxe. You can move your crypto to the card and convert it to regular money, making things much easier and faster.

@nigelwood4977 2 месяца назад

The pride of Spitalfields I meant.

@dodgyg3697 2 месяца назад

My patch, though I leg it to Clerkenwell, these days.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Some great pubs in Clerkenwell!

@knight2255 2 месяца назад

Roughly 4000 pubs in London / 5 pubs a week to review = 15 years of pub reviews. What city's pubs will you move onto next in 2040?

@martinmuller2809 2 месяца назад

11:24 Another youtuber (robwords?) explained that the Y in "Ye olden times" is called a thorn and actually pronounced like th. Kind of a ligature I guess.

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Thanks Martin - yes I had heard that, and generally I read "ye" as "the" but I suspect given the "Merry Olde Englande" air of that picture they wanted it to be pronounced "ye"!

@seanbyrne2220 2 месяца назад

Nice to see a pint of london pride for under five pound

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Yes it feels like an absolute bargain these days in London!

@ScreaminLG 2 месяца назад

CAMRT weed!

@ianainsley7174 2 месяца назад

omg, after living in this area of east london for over 30 yrs where this guy is going the price of one beer is off the scale, don't drink alcohol here YOU ARE GOING TO BE RIPPED OFF and I mean ripped off with a capital R... on steroids

@Chasworth 2 месяца назад

First and best comment

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Congrats!

@jjc7735 2 месяца назад

It's been a long time. But in the70's couldn't you go downstairs in DD's and see all that stuff. I'm 74 now but seem to remember we all used to have a great night out there? Still maybe not 🥲🥲

@TweedyPubs 2 месяца назад

Yes, alas, like most pubs owned by one of the big pub chains it has been very sanitised today - apparently even inside a glass cabinet a dead cat is no longer acceptable!