Back in the 60's the Prospect of Whitby on Wapping Wall by the Thames was a place to be on a friday/saturday night.

Wow, thanks for jogging my memory! When I was at university I was treasurer of the Lancastrians' Association of the Universify of London (far less arduous than it sounds). We had occasional nights out with an eminent Lancastrian guest, and one night in 1970 we invited Thora Hird and her husband for dinner at the Prospect. I sat next to Thora all evening and she was a very amusing guest. I remember her complaining to the waiter that her cheese was too ripe!

I spent many an evening at the Prospect and I remember all too well the 96 steps you had to climb out of Wapping station which made you feel that you'd earned your pint. Another Thames pub that was really good in the early 70s was the Angel at Rotherhithe. That was our watering hole of choice in the evenings of the long hot summer of 1976.