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The Plough was situated at 25 Homerton High Street and is now used as a restaurant.

This pub was present by 1734 when landlady Martha Collins was summonsed before Hackney justices for keeping an “ill-governed and disorderly ale-house”.  She got off with a warning.  The pub was sold for £700 in 1785 when it was described as having “a shuffleboard room, stabling for six horses, skittle ground, store-cellars and garden”.  In 1815 the pub was acquired by Thomas and Robert Pryor, brewers of Shoreditch and in 1835 it was sold on to the Buxton and Hanbury families, thus beginning a long association with what became the Truman, Hanbury & Buxton Brewery. The pub was rebuilt in around 1888 and again in 1898.  In around 1990 it was acquired from Truman’s by Belhaven and closed in 2002.  In 2005 the pub re-opened as Jerry’s Wine Bar (as can be seen in the photo) and in 2010 the name reverted to the Plough – it remains open.

Stephen Harris

Now closed again.

T C (May 2016)

Reopened again in March 2019.

Michael Sheppard (April 2019)

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