The Grapes

Name: The Grapes
Age: Built 1720, site dates back to 1583
Location: Narrow Street, Limehouse
Information: A riverside pub with a history of watermen taking drunks from the pub, drowning them in the river, then selling their corpses for medical dissection.
Charles Dickens knew this pub well. As a child, he was made to stand on a table and sing to the customers. As an adult, he immortalised it as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub in Our Mutual Friend.