History
The current building was built in 1720 on the site of a previous pub built in 1583, and was a working class tavern serving the dockers of the Limehouse Basin. In the 1930s it sold beer from the adjacent brewery owned by Taylor Walker. It survived the bombing of the nearby Limehouse Basin in World War II, and Docklands redevelopment in the 1980s.
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