The Marquis of Lansdowne Restored

Photo:  Spitalfields Life 2020



A few years ago the campaign to save the pub* was successfully concluded and the Marquis of Lansdowne is to be included in the new 'Museum of the Home' (The Geffrye Museum to most of us).  The expanded museum is due to open later this year but it appears that work on the pub has been completed as can be seen in the picture above.   How much of the interior has been preserved is unknown. 

The campaign to save the pub was led by the 'Gentle Author' who runs the Spitalfields Life website.  He published an update on the pub in February 2020.   This can be found at:  https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/01/the-marquis-of-lansdowne-restored/  He has also reproduced the article written by George (George BARKER) a few years ago.  All in all well worth a read.

Before the work started I had a look around the interior of the pub and wrote a note of the experience. The pub is older than I thought (1838) although by the time I came along it was showing every year of its age!  I might write a few lines about the pub itself in a future post.  Few places, even in London, can have seen so many changes.  The road itself is on its third name since the pub was built:  Thomas Street, Harwar Street and Cremer Street.  Only the last name has an obvious origin (like the school it was named after Sir William Randal CREMER (D1908).  Another angle to follow up.................

Philip Trendall
20 April 2020 


*The pub in question is the Marquis of Lansdowne, 32 Cremer Street, London E2.  Associated with the Wilson, Barker and Trendall families from before the Great War until 1969, and my birthplace.