Eat Out London!The Ship & Whale
The Ship and Whale
The Ship & Whale pub is one of the oldest original buildings in the area.
The pub first appears in the rate records for 1767, however the present building is believed to have been rebuilt around 1880.
To put this date in context, other notable events of 1880 include Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly being hanged in Melbourne and Gladstone defeating Benjamin Disraeli to become British Prime Minister.
Also in 1880 Queen Victoria had reigned for 43 years.
We’ve tried to bring the history of the area back in to The Ship & Whale and within the pub you might notice old photographs from the area including a photo of the June 1911 Coronation Parties held for George V on Rotherhithe Street...