Exploring London's Pubs: Five Pubs, Five Stories (Volume 2)

As an Irishman who avoids the so called Irish Pubs when away from home always found the great Old English Taverns full of atmosphere and history.!!!Want to a few more

Excellent, a similar thing happened to the Greyhound in Sydenham South London, a famous pub with a long history, developers boarded it up and in spite of planning protections and extended arguments from the locals it mysteriously burn down, the developers thought they had it made in the shade, clapping all the way to the Bank. Unfortunately for them the local authorities forced them to rebuild, as you said brick by brick even down to the two stone greyhounds at the main entrance.

i work at the mayflower! we unfortunately had to stop selling american stamps, i’m pretty sure it was over the course of the pandemic - but we’re very keen to get the american stamps back esp. for the tourists. it’s such a lovely unique part of the pub’s history :)

That was the best documentary about London pubs I've seen in a long time, and so well researched. If only the BBC made documentaries like this. A very big thanks for your hard work and brilliant videos.

I live in Glasgow and feel more at home in London than any city in the world. So glad to watch this tour of London's historic pubs - the first I visited was The Prospect of Whitby in 1969, mentioned in a Len Deighton novel.

I'm amazed at the beauty of London.👍🧿🇬🇧

The Prospect of Whitby was my great Grandfathers old haunt. He was the dock constable for Shadwell Basin and the head bell ringer at St Pauls Shadwell just around the corner. Dave Trumble. My great uncle is also buried in that churchyard but he has no headstone, instead they planted a plum tree that still grows in the yard.

I can only wish YouTube and this channel had been around when I lived down there from 1988-1993. You have a way of making me want to investigate places that the usual tourist stuff doesn't. I'm always more interested in the history of ordinary folk much more than the kings and queens pish.

I love exploring the foreshore at low tide beneath The Propect of Whitby. Oyster shells and fragments of old tiles and bottles from centuries past are everwhere.

For several years, I was a member of CAMRA. When in London, we visited their top pubs of whatever year. I was driven as much in search of pub food and decor. This is a fine video, showing much I had missed out. The Old Cheshire Cheese is the only pub in this video I visited.

I used to love going to Narrow street with my Dad and Uncle in the 80s and 90s and visiting those pubs . Some wonderful memories both of those great guys are upstairs now and i live in another country . I always feel a great sense of comfort when i see something that looks unchanged from back in the day thank you i can still see myself laughing with them . Hope i get to go back to London some day i lived there for 48 years and still miss it .

That must be the first time in yonks I have watched a youtube doc all the way through. Truly fascinating. Absolutely brilliant.

I really enjoyed that episode. I went to Dirty Dicks in the 1960's and it had so much atmosphere. Th In the bar there were beer barrels for tables and sawdust on the floor and lots of cobwebs hanging from the ceiling and in a different room there was a big table laid out with food for the wedding reception all covered in dirt and cobwebs everywhere. What a pity I didn't take a camera! Anyway, it was great learning about the other old pubs I look forward to your next volume!

That's my trips to London sorted for another year! Thanks Rob. You really should be making documentaries for large, mainstream companies - right up there with anything on Channel 5, BBC4, Yesterday etc. etc. 😃

Gough Square was the original home to the studios of The London Broadcasting Company, LBC, mainland Britain's first legal commercial radio station, which began broadcasting on the 8th October 1973.

My father lived in London in the mid/late 1930s. He always told me about DD's. In 1974 I visited only to find that, apart from sawdust on the floor, it was remarkably clean. When I got home I told mt father. He said I should have visited downstairs, not the upstairs part. So about a year later I did. What a difference!

I wonder how long after the early 1960's the Prospect of Whitby continued to be the pub that literally 100's of rugby players went to on Saturday evenings to drink and sing? Teams from north, south, east and west London having played away at the opposite ends of London stopped on their way home. All travelled in cars in days of pre breathalyser! Literally heaving with rugby players during early evening. It was an institution which I enjoyed many times. A small "band" of oriental chaps either knew or picked up on any rugby song, mostly vulgar. They sat expressionless and played. Happy memories. The pub was always packed needless to say.

I visited Dirty Dicks on a regular basis in the late 60's and your description of it at the time was spot on. On the wooden wall behind the bar there were scratched initials of American service men from WW2 and I remember being encouraged by the bar staff to do the same on the barrel that was our table. I saw some recent pictures of the interior since renovation and they have ruined it. It looked like a Weatherspoon pub which it might be now who knows.

As ever, a fab video which I found facinating, particulary the last story - justice ! Well done you.

This channel is simply brilliant. Robslondon may not have many subscribers but is a golden nugget in a mountain of dross. Please keep this up because some of us appreciate quality when we see it!