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Date of photo: c1965	Picture source: Deborah Chowney
The Empress Of India was situated at 285 Rotherhithe New Road. This pub closed in 1967 and has now been demolished. Also known as The Old Galley Wall.
Source: Ian Chapman
This was my maternal grandparents local. Harry & Eliza Bouvier who lived at no 245 Rotherhithe new road large family 16 children from about 1941 after being bombed out from the Borough had own family dart team at the pub nicked named the creeping 8. Uncle Jack had the greengrocers next door at 283 and Uncle Leslie had the grocers shop next at 281. My parents John and Lil trained here at The Empress of India to be licencees about 1956 under the the guidance of the then tenants Alf and Cathy Talbot who I think were the last tenants before demolition and moving out to The Porcupine in Mottingham which is now earmarked for demolition. My parents did 41 years as tenants for Courages at the Windsor Castle Peckham (now demolished), Duke of Cambridge Islington and The Phoenix Harlow new town before retiring
John Doyle (March 2021)
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