Shoreditch: The former Princess Alice public house
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Shoreditch: The former Princess Alice public house
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 25 Sep 2008
It took me a solid half hour of searching on the internet to find any reference to, and thereby identify, this long-closed pub at 21 Dingley Road, at its junction with Dingley Place! The problems were that firstly I did not know that Dingley Road was formerly known as York Road, a change that I subsequently found out must have taken place at some time between 1896 and 1920 judging by the old Ordnance Survey maps, and secondly that a small section of the original pub fascia is exposed to read the letters "CHANT &", which I mistakenly thought was part of the pub name. With hindsight this is probably part of a phrase "Wine Merchant &"... Whatever, the pub is closed, its subsequent use as a mini-cab office has ceased, and the building is sadly derelict.
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Image Location
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51.528074
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-0.093775