I am spending the whole weekend in the pub – publishing this second instalment of the collaboration with Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archive in which Spitalfields Life Contributing Photographer Alex Pink selected photographs of public houses from the collection, and then set out with his camera to pay them a visit and see what he discovered.
The Vine Tavern, Whitechapel 1903
The Vine Tavern, Whitechapel 2013
The White Hart, Whitechapel 1960
The White Hart, Whitechapel 2013
The Dover Castle, Shadwell 1992
The Dover Castle, Shadwell 2013
The Londoner, Limehouse 1974
The Londoner, Limehouse 2013
The Kings Arms, Cable St 1994
The Kings Arms, Cable St 2013
The Grapes, Limehouse 1975
The Grapes, Limehouse 2013
Duke of Norfolk, Globe Rd 1985
Duke of Norfolk, Globe Rd 2013
The Artichoke, Whitechapel 1990
The Artichoke, Whitechapel 2013
The Old Blue Anchor, Whitechapel 1973
The Old Blue Anchor, Whitechapel 2013
Bromley Arms, Bow 1981
Bromley Arms, Bow 2013
The Morgan Arms, Bow 1961
The Morgan Arms, Bow 2013
The Dickens Inn, St Katharine Docks, 1975
The Dickens Inn, St Katharine Docks 2013
The Alma, Spitalfields 1989
The Alma, Spitalfields 2013
Prospect of Whitby, Wapping nineteen-eighties
Prospect of Whitby, Wapping 2013
The Black Horse,Leman St nineteen-eighties
The Black Horse, Leman St 2013
The Dean Swift, nineteen-eighties
The Dean Swift, 2013
Archive images courtesy Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives
New photographs copyright © Alex Pink
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