I remember going in the Watermans, though it was on the other side of the Island from where we lived, on the edge of the Millwall Dock. Our locals were the Blacksmith's (a classic East End community pub), the North Star and The Londoner (my Man United scarf didn't go down well there, though).

There was a pub in Limehouse called Charlie Brown's, in which my wife once witnessed a brawl that included a bystander picking up empty glasses from surrounding tables and hurling them at random into the melee. They don't make boozers like that any more!