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Blade Bone
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Picture source: National Brewery Heritage Trust |
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The Blade Bone was situated at 185 Bethnal Green
Road.
This pub
was established in 1823 and rebuilt after the Second World War.
It closed in 1999 and has since served as a restaurant. Demolished by 2016. |
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The Blade Bone achieved
considerable notoriety in the 1970s as a National Front hang out. I was not
aware of this when I made my one and only visit there in the1970s but it did
strike me as one of the most unpleasant pubs I have been in.
It was described in the 1983 East London Camra guide as:
E2 BLADE BONE: 185 Bethnal
Green Road . Bass Charrington. CHARRINGTON IPA. Not far from Cable Street,
scene of the battle with Mosley's Blackshirts in the 1930's. The present day
pub is a modern building, although has boards over the windows. An
unusuallly patriotic pub. Pool/Piano.
Note the misspelling of unusually. The Blade Bone is actually just over a
mile north of Cable Street. This and the reference to an unusually patriotic
pub were an attempt to accurately describe it without running foul of libel
laws. The far right connections of the Blade bone date back to the 1930 when
local supporters of Oswald Mosley used it. |
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Colin Price (April 2015) |
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From the Daily Sketch,
Monday, June 3, 1940 (page 11) under the heading They Aided Our Fund:
“ £1 6s 3d The Blade Bone, 183, Bethnal Green-road, E.2. (box). “
Perhaps the customers were facists but seemingly loyal facists and not Nazis
at the time of Dunkirk. |
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Arthur Papworth
(November 2021) |
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Picture source: Stephen
Harris |
