Talk:Narrow Street
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....including The Grapes public house, immortalised as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Charles Dickens' work, Our Mutual Friend. Built in 1720, the pub is now a listed building and backs onto the Thames waterfront.
"The first reference to the house being used for sale of alcohol occurs at beginning of the 18th century. From 1787-97 the name is recorded as the Bunch of Grapes but from the 1850s it was just known as The Grapes.Charles Dickens knew this public house and it is said to be the original of the fictional Jolly Fellowship Porters. As The Porters was described as being much larger, the Prospect of Whitby is another candidate as is the now demolished Two Brewers, Limehouse. The fictional inn may in fact be an amalgam of various riverside taverns".
(fidget2006 23:47, 5 December 2005 (UTC))
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If the 1827 map (Narrowstreet1827.jpg) is correct then Limehouse Bridge Dock is not 'now Limehouse Basin' as suggested here. Limehouse Basin (at one stage called the Regent's Canal Dock) is shown on the 1827 map ('Basin'), and Limehouse Bridge Dock can be seen on the 1827 map just below where the Limehouse Cut then reached the Thames. Pterre 23:28, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
