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Date of photo: 2007	Picture source: Stephen Harris
The Ship was situated on Dock Road. This pub was established in around 1890 and survived in use until at least 1937, probably later. Old signage for ‘Toby Stout’ shows that it was once a Charrington’s Brewery house.  The premises are now used as a post office and occupied by other retail users.
This pub was reported in the Sun newspaper as the roughest pub in England at the end of 1980s. This caused a lot of other pubs to issue threats that they would come down and prove who were the toughest. Shortly afterwards the Ship closed for refurbishments and never opened again. I used to live near there and would occasionally drink in it. I can say it was a very rough pub with fights guaranteed every night, usually with sailors who had disembarked at Tilbury docks.
Jan Giernatowski (February 2012)
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