But thanks for providing the history of the pub. Mrs Steve is in bed right now but I'll get her to read your link in the morning. We lived and both taught in that area from 1973 to 1980. Our main watering hole, though, was not on the Isle of Dogs ("the Island"...) but the Exmouth Arms down Commercial Road (in Exmouth Street), a pub we always called the Hollands. It's been closed now for way over 20 years. The greatest pub of my whole life, and I've known hundreds!


...But it was always wise to not mention the Krays... :-)