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Picture source: Chris Putinas
The Panther was present at 15 Turin Street by 1832, when it was home to a local French-speaking friendly society, the ‘Piccards & Waloons’.  It was a Whitbread Brewery pub and by the 1960s was the only pre-war survivor in a street otherwise demolished following damage sustained in the Blitz.  The pub itself became a victim of demolition following closure in 2004. A block of flats has now been built on the site.
In 1972 I was attending an evening class (French language. Coincidentally) at Bethnal Green, Adult Education Inst. After the class a couple of us popped in to The Panther and met a guy there named Michelle. In the course of conversation he mentioned that his employer, Post Office Telephones, were busy recruiting telephonists for the international exchanges in London. I went for the interview a few days later and that was the start of my 20-year career with what later became BT. Sorry that the pub is no longer there.
Jim Wild (January 2025)
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Site of The Panther, 2014	Picture source: Colin Price