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The Grapes Pub, on Narrow Street in Limehouse London E14. Join me for a tour of this historic Pub

The Grapes Pub, 76 Narrow Street, London E14 8BP. Join me for a tour of this great old East End Pub, & walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens + many other historical figures. Recorded on Friday 17th February 2023. ............................................................................. (History of the Pub) The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house situated directly on the north bank of the Thames in London's Limehouse area, with a veranda overlooking the water. To its landward side, the pub is found at number 76 in Narrow Street, flanked by former warehouses now converted to residential and other uses. The Grapes is owned in partnership by the actor Sir Ian McKellen, the theatre and film director Sean Mathias, and Evgeny Lebedev, publisher of the Evening Standard newspaper. The current building dates from the 1720s and is on the site of a pub built in 1583. It was formerly 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 intense bombing of the area in World War II, and is just outside the Docklands commercial zone built in the 1980s. In 1661, Samuel Pepys' diary records his trip to lime kilns at the jetty just along from The Grapes. The (Lime Kilns) is where Limehouse gets its name from. ............................................................................. In 1820, the young Charles Dickens visited his godfather in Limehouse and knew the district well for 40 years. The Grapes appears, scarcely disguised, in the opening chapter of his novel Our Mutual Friend ⬇️ "A tavern of dropsical appearance ... long settled down into a state of hale infirmity. It had outlasted many a sprucer public house, indeed the whole house impended over the water but seemed to have got into the condition of a faint-hearted diver, who has paused so long on the brink that he will never go in at all." ............................................................................. Other popular writers were drawn by huddled buildings, wharves and docks by the bustling river: Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Conan Doyle, who sent Sherlock Holmes in search of opium provided by the local Chinese immigrants; and, more recently, Peter Ackroyd in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Hope you all enjoyed the tour = Join me soon, for the follow up piece, to this one "A tour down Narrow Street = to Ratcliffe Cross Stairs" ⬅️ a very interesting place, where historic events occurred.