The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel - pub details
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Address: 337 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 648)
Whitechapel (0.2 miles), Stepney Green (0.5 miles), Bethnal Green (0.5 miles)
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Bethnal Green (0.3 miles), Cambridge Heath (0.9 miles), Limehouse (1 mile)
Pub facilities/features:
- Sky TV
- Pool table (1)
- Outside seating
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> Current user rating: 5.6/10 (rated by 66 users)
> Related article: Monopoly Board Pub Crawl by mike, dsf
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other pubs nearby:
LHT Urban Bar, Whitechapel (0.0 miles), Grave Maurice, Whitechapel (0.1 miles), White Hart, Stepney (0.1 miles), Forty Fives / Three Cranes, Spitalfields (0.2 miles), Black Bull, Whitechapel (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Blind Beggar, Whitechapel
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| i dont know if its true or not but my uncle Steve (who was in here the night the Crays topped George Foreman) told me that this was Jack the Rippers local!. He also sayed that Douglas Bader (who he?) was a regular and that Arneka Rice (who, Steve?) met her husband here!! wavydavygravy - 8 Jun 2009 18:10 |
| Even as I live in town (Central London), I always still find this pub nice and homey. I came to discover it in a cold Winter evening and was extremely pleased that they have three fire places. The staff were lovely, they can cheer yopu up any time of day and the pub landlord takes time to chat new-commers and regulars alike. It's a fun place. History is also rich but dont expect portraits of Kray's hanging about as it was criticized before for glorifying crime. Still, they have tidbits of the pub's history framed all over the place. Nice pool table indoor and outdoor. PubCrazedBuffoon - 22 May 2009 17:33 |
| Been coming here now for over a year, I love the huge outside area with music. Had a refit recently, wooden floors and comfy sofas replaced with less than comfortable wooden chairs. I this pub doesn't get swamped with so called 'trendies' like so many pubs in the East End. I like my pubs with character, which in my opinion disappears when the Nathan Barley lot move in. Ignition - 22 May 2009 15:22 |
| Was in here the other day and probably before they finished the refit see below. was bitterly disappointed. Could be so much better, with the history of the place etc. No real ale when I visited. £3.20 for Guinness. TheHorsesMouth - 13 May 2009 17:40 |
| Well known East End pub on the main road a few hundred yards or so east of Whitechapel Tube Station. The pub's claim to fame ( or should that be notoriety ?) is, as the whole world and his wife know by now, that this pub was the scene of a gangland killing in 1966 involving one of the Kray twins and a rival gang member. Prior to that occurrence, it was apparently a popular meeting point for the local East End totty. I first visited this pub in the early 1970's when it appeared in the Evening Standard Guide to London Pubs, a small paperback book that introduced me to the delights of pub crawling. I vaguely recollect the pub having a rather unusual country pub feel to it in those days, what with horse brasses, fake beams etc. My more recent visit - last week in fact - indicated that the pub appeared to have had what I would describe as a fake Victorianisation refit - complete with chandeliers, wood pannelling, plastered ceiling etc. It doesn't really work in my view - the effect is spoiled somewhat by the light pine wood flooring and the usual mixture of wooden chairs, tables and sofas. It's a largish single bar with a large outside drinking area at the side. In a small room at the rear of the pub is a snooker table. The pub has a rather spartan feel to it, only partially redeemed by a few small pictures of the pub in days long gone. There's also the inevitable photo of the Kray twins. If you feel so inclined, you can get a souvenir of your visit. Blind Beggar T shirts can be bought for £ 12. There's also a coin machine dispensing special engraved coins / tokens for the princely sum of £ 1. It's a former Watneys pub and still retains the round green stag sign of the former Watney Combe Reid brewery. I gather that the pub is now privately owned. Brickwork high up outside tells us that the building dates back to 1894. There's 2 handpumps hidden amongst the lager and keg fonts. On the date of my visit, one of these was dispensing Speckled Hen, the other had its pump clip reversed. Guessing, correctly as it turned out, that there would be negligible real ale trade and that the Speckled Hen might not be up to much, I wisely stuck to the draught Guinness. Customers were a mix of East End locals and the odd curious tourist / visitor, into which category I suppose I should place myself. Given the pub's history, I might have expected it to have had rather more character. In conclusion, if you haven't been before and you're in the area, I wouldn't want to discourage you from popping in out of curiousity if you felt so inclined, but I suspect you'll probably be disappointed. This isn't a pub to go out of your way to visit. JohnBonser - 7 May 2009 12:39 |
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