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While you may not have known it at the time, your B journey odyssey has already taken you past another pub with a rock paper scissors happy hour on a Friday.
martin | 17.01.22 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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As a matter of fact I do read your B-road essays with great pleasure. They show parts of London where I've never been nor am likely to go. That's very interesting.
Leuconoe | 17.01.22 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Or, in my case, many a lockdown walk.
MartinG | 17.01.22 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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"Rock paper scissors happy hour".
I don't know what this is but it's made me very sad.
Scott | Homepage | 17.01.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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There is no need to duck under the railway bridge. It is 16' 3" although, unusually, plated.
Always made bus companies nervous about using Globe Road as a diversion route if Mile End Road or Bethnal Green Road were blocked.
scrumpy | 17.01.22 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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On the opposite corner of Alderney Road from the Horn of Plenty in your photograph is Pat Shaw House, a Tower Hamlets old people's home. This was the last residence of Alan Pegler, famous as the man who bought the Flying Scotsman in the 1960s, and thereby lost a lot of money on the venture.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Pegler
When I interviewed him there in 2008, he was pretty immobile and lived in a small single room stuffed with his memorabilia. I was interested in his schooldays but sadly a lot of his photographs had been lost. He did have one album, however, and it included a picture of my uncle taken in the school holidays when he was about 12.
Charles | Homepage | 17.01.22 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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A road I have actually visited in the vain search of the houses my Great grandmother lived in as a child - number 5 in 1881 and number 31 in 1891.
I wonder if the school mentioned is the one she and her siblings went to, only reaching Standard 1 (3Rs comparable with today's Infants level) before leaving because (according to the register book) the fees were too high - up to 4p a day!
(Another branch of the family, with which she would eventually unite, lived in Cephas St)
Cornish Cockney | 17.01.22 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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"... and no trace remains today"
Not quite .
Marek | 17.01.22 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Please, someone tell me what Rock Paper Scissors happy hour is!
Ian | 17.01.22 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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That bench outside Tad's Coffee Offie is perfectly located for anyone wanting to consume their purchases straight away...
Mikey C | 17.01.22 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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Back when my kids went to a primary just off Globe, a landmark of interest was the Fountain pub (highlighted to me by a local geezer of my acquaintance) which I seem to remember you could see from Globe. Looking on Google Maps is disorientating though, everywhere clusterbombed by housing development and my woolly memories are a poor match for the blandness erasing the pub. I moved away before a massive police/RSPCA raid on bird fanciers there which I read about with fascination in the papers. Googling around, it seems the birdmen moved on to a pub in Leytonstone.
jpmac | 17.01.22 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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Based on seconds of online research I'll guess that Rock Paper Scissors happy hour involves playing RPS with the bar staff and if you win then your drink is free.
miker | 17.01.22 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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No photo of the Tad's Coffee Offie cat? Very friendly, as is the owner who generally seems to be sitting outside when not serving customers.
Little things like the repeated dustman wave are often all I need to change a day from mundane to special. Ridiculous I know, but I'd rather that than need something exceptional to brighten my day!
Andrew S | 17.01.22 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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Love the Rickman House sign/typeface that you've managed to squeeze into the coffee shop photo.
Sarah | Homepage | 17.01.22 - 3:22 p.m. | #
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If the area was posher, then the pub night might have been called Rochambeau.
MilesT | 17.01.22 - 6:31 p.m. | #
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Another gem. Really enjoyed the dustman’s wave and the Coffee Offie with the dotted ‘i’. And the comments, esp. about the station.
I like your Boring Bs.
Herbof | 17.01.22 - 8:42 p.m. | #
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"If you're interested in looking at a variety of unremarkable council estate architecture, Globe Road is a must-visit."
It's lines such as these that keep me coming back to this blog. Thanks DiamondGeezer.
Simeon Bennett | 17.01.22 - 10:28 p.m. | #
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Stepney Green underground station ... where one of my wife's ancestors was once the signalman.
Another fascinating read, thank you.
Robin_Hood | 24.01.22 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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