Canning Town: Former Royal Oak public house
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Canning Town: Former Royal Oak public house
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 29 Aug 2019
This is the former Royal Oak public house, currently in use as the Meydan Turkish Restaurant. It is a Grade II Listed Building and the Historic England website describes it thus:- "Later C 19. Painted stock brick and stucco. 3 storeys, corner site. Rusticated stucco quoins. Pink and grey granite pilastered ground storey. Pedimented side and corner entrances. Segmental window openings to upper storeys, with stucco surrounds. Pediments to first floor. Bracketed stucco cornice with pedimented central feature. Splayed corner surmounted by pedimented panel with 'Royal Oak' inscribed. Similar, return to Oak Crescent. Wrought iron screen to main entrance. Tiled mural with oak leaves to entrance lobby. Mosaic floor." For an earlier view, from 2012, please see David's Image
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Image Location
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51.516375
Longitude
0.009079