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Picture source: Ann Holmes

The Queen Elizabeth was situated at 9 Graham Road.

This pub was established by 1874 and was tied to the Charrington’s Brewery of Mile End.  It closed in 2005 and by 2007 had been converted to use as a church.

Stephen Harris

This was one of several pubs of which my great grandfather Diederich Wetjen was licensee, back in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Diederich died at the Queen Elizabeth on Christmas Day 1885. The pub was recently converted to residential use but is still called the Q.E. and I believe that the old sign is undergoing restoration and will be rehung on the building on completion. Somewhat anecdotal reports on the “net“ claim that this particular pub was the inspiration for the “Queen Vic” featured in the BBC East Enders series.

Tony Wetjen (September 2012)

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