The Crown Pub (London)

The Crown Pub (London) ... The Crown Pub, which is first recorded in 1751 licensing records was an ivy-clad house with pretty tea gardens and a skittle alley, complemented by a horse pond opposite. Rather less idyllically, bare-knuckle prize fights took place in nearby fields. The Crown pub building, as it stands today, was rebuilt in 1889 by the Cannon Brewery and is a grade two listed Victorian building. The Crown Pub’s terracotta exterior and period features may look the same on the surface but the ambience would be un-recognisable to the regulars who, after a hard days work building Britain, drank, sang and cashed their pay cheques there. Indeed, it's pretty hard to imagine glasses flying and Biddy's crying being a regular feature of the new-look Crown as immortalised in the song Mc Alpines Fusiliers by Dominic Behan.