The Queen's Head, Limehouse, E14

This is a Young’s pub with just the Bitter on, but it was a decent pint, and at £2.85 a pint at a decent price as well. There were no menus in sight (I was in Tuesday lunchtime) but there were some clingfilm wrapped sandwiches/salad stuff in a small traditional food servery. This really is the pub where the Queen Mother pulled the pint that features in photographs in just about every Young’s pub. There is a brass plaque commemorating this event on the pillar next to the handpump she used. The pub sign features the head of the young Queen Mother (possibly as homage to the royal visit?) whereas on the said pillar there is a bust of Queen Victoria. Very Eastenders. The pub itself is very basic. It still features two separate rooms, with (I believe) the room on the right being the old Saloon Bar, which would make the room in which I sat, and where the Queen Mother pulled that pint, the old Public Bar. I thought the latter room was the nicer of the two, and as the other room had the dart board, maybe I’m wrong. They wouldn’t have taken the Queen Mum into the Public Bar, would they? Anyway, both rooms are comfortably furnished with normal tables and chairs and a few small stools. The pub was desperately quiet during my visit, with just me, the barmaid, and one old boy and his dog in there. This is a basic backstreet eastend boozer. This is a dying breed, but I’m glad this one still survives. Do pay a visit if you want to see the sort of pub that would have been commonplace 50 or 60 years ago.