Inside the battle to be crowned London’s oldest riverside pub
On a fascinating cobblestone street stuck on the East Side of London, a pub proudly hangs a sign that says “the oldest Riverside Pub in London”. Along the Thames River, a pub with a different name makes the same brave claim.
The unofficial title of the oldest Riverside PUB in the city has been discussed for a long time, both Mayflower and Whitby’s possibility of claiming for the title.
Two contestants can be found along a quiet extension of Thames, which offers traditional British dishes from steak and ele pies to adhesive confectionery pudding.
Mayflower was named after Hacı Mayflower ship, which sailed from the field to start his journey to America in 1620. Although it was only named in 1957, it is said that the ship’s original timber was included in the structure.
Today, Pubgoes can sign the “Torun Book”, which can prove that there is a direct landing from one of the Mayflower passengers.
Escape from the skyscrapers
Every night, tourists come out of the doors of two pubs on the doors of the two pubs and swap modern skyscrapers for the floors of the eastern end of the capital of London, covering them with cute terrace houses and red brick warehouses.
In both bars, they enter the places where the old paintings and other memories of the old paintings hanging on the dark panel walls left behind the contemporary world.
“There is a feeling that you may have a step back and you can have a feeling that you can drink beer with sailors, pirates or any Dickens novel, Londan London Emily Godwin said in both of them. On the last summer evening, the candidate spoke with his friends while sipping a glass of lager.
Prospect has the longest – the longest -tin stick of the genre in England, where the famous “hanging judge Jeffreys” is said to watch many vines on the nearby “Execution Pier”. Initially, PUB was known as the devil’s tavern because of his relationship with thieves and smugglers. A stanger hanging outside reminds of the terrible history of Pub.
“He feels like such a history pocket in London,” said Godwin, Godwin. “Most of London’s East End feels very new and fashionable, and hope seems to have almost changed.”
Tough times for the pub industry
British bars are always at the center of social life, and the locals come together on a pint even in war and economic difficulties. However, the last five years, COVİD-19 pandemi and bars put forward with increasing costs were compelling for the industry.
According to the British beer and PUB Association, this year, the Estimated 378 venues in England, Wales and Scotland will be set.
BBPA President Emma McClarkin said, “When a pub closed, he dismisses people, deprives people from his heart and the communities of his souls, and hurts the local economy.”
Pubs throughout the country had to find new ways to attract customers.
History is a great draw for Pubgoers, a trip to a traditional British pub up to the London Aquarius lists of tourists, raising the risks of the potential customer and Mayflower’s competition.
“A loving competition”
The expectation claimed that it was founded in 1520 and he escaped a swaddling attack in 1666 for the original purpose – the same year as London’s great fire. Pub was outside the city borders at that time and was not affected by the conflict that broke the medieval city.
Potential Customer Manager Justin Billington said that some people dated PUB to fully restructuring in 1774 after 1666 fire.
But he doesn’t see it in this way, he says he works constantly. One day after the fire, the workers spread a barrel of beer that survived the flames, and the locals emerged with tanty, ships and drinks in place.
Billington had several restructuring in the subsequent history of Pub, but none of them were based on Thames’s salty water and changing foundations. Not, until 1774, he rebuilt the retired captain of a merchant ship named “Potential ında using the retired captain.
“This reconstruction was held for the beloved life and continues to continue,” he said.
If PUB was actually founded in 1774, this makes Mayflower, which was founded in the 16th century.
However, since Billington defines its competition as “a loving competition ,, there are no difficult feelings between the bars.
Uz We are competing against each other to be the oldest and offer the best food and drinks, ”he said.
The oldest pUB in London
But the question continues: How can he claim the title for sure?
Unlike the title of “the oldest PUB in the UK ,, organized by the porch house in the Stow-The Stow-Be Wold, which was said to the 10th century, there is no official certificate for the oldest pub in London.
Guinness World Records said he did not officially give the title due to numerous name changes, displacement and complexities created by displacement and restructuring.
British historian and writer Jacob Field said, “There are many old pubs that can claim to be the oldest, but it can be discussed, because they can always be claimed that they are not in London, British historian and writer Jacob Field said.
“Many pubs changed names over time, which made it difficult to claim that they were oldest.”
