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The Three Cranes was situated at 45 Mile End Road. It was owned for some years by a Turkish guy and his Polish wife and used to be a pretty popular locals pub, I was a regular there.  Then they started doing DJ nights on a Friday and Saturday which attracted nothing but trouble and the locals started to drift away.  There was quite a serious stabbing outside one night.  The premises was then taken over by, I believe, Egyptians and renamed Bar 45 but it never did any business, they were trying for a sort of wine bar feel and it just wasn't that sort of place.  All the regulars drifted off to either Murphy's aka the White Hart or a few to the Blind Beggar.   It opened for a while as a furniture shop but that did not last long.  It has now been turned into, yes you've guessed it, a restaurant called Kefala Grill.
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Name Dates Comments David Baxter 1950s My dad, Harry Baxter, was the publican there back in the fifty's we moved there from The Rose and Crown Stepney Highway where I was born in 1947. . .He was chairman of the license victualers association a number times, Kevin Wragg 1970s Was a regular drinker in there with my sister marion and her husband harry and his family the johnsons. Paul was the landlord then had some good times there. Tristan White 1992/1993 I was a student, living opposite. I used to play pool there often. There was a piano in the corner. An old geezer (Sean?) every night played it and got extremely drunk, then wobble to the corner of the pub to urinate. Sometimes we stopped him in time: we got to recognise the signs. Normally we’d be too late and that corner of the carpet was always damp. The barman would never bar him though. But that would normally signal the end of the lock-in.
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Date of photo: 2013		Picture source: Colin Price
		Picture source: Fergy Campbell