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Picture source: Stephen Harris

The White Swan was situated at 85-87 Greenwich Road. Present by 1826, in its latter years this pub was renamed Millers.  It closed in around 2007.

Many pubs in Greenwich and Deptford claim to be the one where Mac Knopfler saw the Sultans of Swing. Strangely the Sultans have never come forward but Quote from Mark Knopfler in the book "Dire Straits", author Michael Oldfield, pub. Sidgewick & Jackson 1984: "'Sultans' was written quite a long time before the band; I hadn't met John then. Dave was living somewhere down in Greenwich and we just went out to the pub - I think it was called the Swan, something like that, in Greenwich High Road - and had a game of pool and a couple of pints. There was a jazz band playing, and there was nobody there except us and a couple of kids in the corner."

Meirion Jones (March 2024)

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