Wed 04 Jun
|London Museum Docklands
Close to Home: the Most Murderous Pub in Dockland?
Time & Location
04 Jun 2025, 16:30 – 19:00
London Museum Docklands, No 1, West India Quay, Hertsmere Rd, London E14 4AL, UK
About the event
The meeting comprises of the Group’s AGM followed by a talk by Chris Ellmers, our Chairman, entitled Close to Home: the Most Murderous Pub in Dockland?
A recurring descriptive trope of 19th and early 20th century Dockland pubs was that they were often dissolute, rough and criminal places, where an undercurrent of potential violence – and worse – lurked and threatened. Although reality was generally far different, Chris will reveal the story of one hostelry which was, very unusually, the scene of a number of violent murders. To retain an air of mystery, the name of the hostelry and its evil deeds will not be revealed until the talk itself!
The image above is 'Rolling a sailor at a Dockland pub', from Robert Machray’s The Night Side of London (London,1902, speaker’s collection)
The AGM and Group Meeting will be held in the Jack Petchey Room on the lower ground floor of the museum.…