First date for 2025 - 15 January 2025

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Meet at the Brown Bear pub, Leman Street, London E1 8EY

Nearest tube: Aldgate East / Aldgate / Tower Hill

Nearest DLR: Tower Gateway

Nearest train stations: Fenchurch Street / Liverpool Street / Cannon Street / London Bridge

Then next door for a curry at the Empress or walk a bit back to Aldgate, for a trendy pizza or whatever.

Meet at the Brown Bear at 18:30

Food at 19:30


PS The pub appears in several films and TV series, most recently Slow Horses. It also has a fair amount of East End ‘gangster’ history. All in all, a good boozer, if you ain’t too precious. See it before the march of the 21st century turns it into Chinese student accommodation.

The pub usually has a decent soundtrack coming out. Just now it’s:


I can also recommend the ‘Hole in the wall’ burger outlet, in the alley next door.
 
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Three musketeers and one spare….

Wapping
simondippenhall (to be confirmed)
Monsieur
The Other PaulG
 
Wapping
simondippenhall
Monsieur
The Other PaulG
EVskij
grantmac
ChasMill

Jersey_GS (TBC)

 
Thanks for organising this Richard.

Just a heads up so that you don’t think that I’m ignoring you. I’d like to come but unable to confirm that I’m free at the mo. I’ll update when I can 👍
 
I suggest that I go to the Empress restaurant and reserve a table for 10 (one more than is absolutely necessary). It is often easier to reduce a booking than extend it.

I’ll also see if the pub might set aside a corner for us. That might not be so easy, as I am not as regularly in there, as I am in the Town of Ramsgate.
 
On my return from an excellent excursion to the Emerald Isle, I dropped into the Brown Bear pub, to reserve a space for up to 10 of us at 18:30.

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