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Date of photo: 1931	Picture source: National Brewery Heritage Trust
The Lamb was situated at 36 Wilmot Street. This pub was established by 1824 and was originally a Truman’s Brewery house, later transferring to be a Charrington’s Brewery pub and was renamed Sporting Life when it became a Free House in around 1980.  At this time it was redecorated with much horse racing paraphernalia.  The pub closed and was converted to residential use in 1993. The building is now known as the SLB.
Stephen Harris
Thomas McCarthy, licensee in 1911, was part of a dynasty that ran pubs across east and south London. He and his wife Catherine had no children but raised four, including my grandfather George Cooper, all born to her sister Jane. She died in 1907 aged 34, and her husband George Cooper in 1908. I suspect that while growing up at the Lamb, George jnr met his future wife, my grandmother Lydia Maude Terry, who lived nearby in Finnis Street. Catherine and Jane’s father James Whitehead ran pubs including the Royal Cricketers in Old Ford Road. Their father’s sister Ellen Whitehead married John Thomas Holliwell who ran the Green Man in Shacklewell Lane from 1901 to at least 1911 and it remained in the family for some time after that.
Paul Bolding (January 2020)
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Picture source: T C