Also see the History of Canning Town
It closed in 1997 and is now in a derelict condition. **
Tidal Basin Tavern, 31 Tidal Basin Road - in December 2006
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
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| Tidal Basin Pub Sign - January 1950 Kindly provided by Alex Wilkinson |
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Known Residents
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1862/William Shaw/../../../Kelly's
1867/John Morsley/../../../Post Office
1870/John Morsley/../../../Kelly's
1871/John Morsley/Licenced Victualler/41/Woolwich, Kent/Census ****
1871/Eliza Morsley/Wife/39/B??ley Heath, Kent/Census
1871/Arthur Morsley/Son/9/Woolwich, Kent/Census
1871/Ernest Morsley/Son/9/Woolwich, Kent/Census
1871/Thomas Taylor/Boarder, Engineer/36/Greenwich, Kent/Census
1871/Eliza Black/Barmaid/27/Blackwall, Middx/Census
1871/David Dent/Waiter/30/Thetford, Norfolk/Census
1871/Elizabeth Cartwright/Cook/30/Woodmanstone, Surrey/Census
1871/Mary Mills/Housemaid/17/Welling, Kent/Census
1874/John Morsley/../../../Kelly's
1878/John Morsley/../../../Kelly's
1881/Edward WaltonLicensed Victualler/36/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Louisa B. Walton/Wife/33/Clapham, Surrey/Census
1881/Louisa K. Walton/Daughter/5/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Agnes H. Walton/Daughter/3/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Marion E. Walton/Daughter/1/West Ham, Essex/Census
1881/Harriett Bovingdon/Sister in Law, Barmaid/37/Walworth, Surrey/Census
1881/George Oxford/Nephew, Barman/20/Kew, Middlesex/Census
1881/George V. Weedon/Barman/19/Wapping, Middlesex/Census
1881/Edward Hughes/Potman/20/Lambeth, Surrey/Census
1881/Sarah Haslop/Housemaid/17/Kingsland, Middlesex/Census
1881/Phoebe A. Stevens/Cook/22/Rotherhithe, Kent/Census
1881/Harriett A. Spencer/Nursemaid/14/St. George, Middlesex/Census
1882/Edward Wrainch Walter/../../../Kelly's
1886/Alfred William Knotts/../../../Kelly's
1896/Ernest Payne/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1901/Ernest Thomas Payne/Licensed Victualler/32/West Ham, Essex/Census ****
1901/Ellen Payne/Mother, Widow/70/Cork, Ireland/Census
1901/Alice Payne/Sister/26/West Ham, Essex/Census
1901/Florence Thompson/Housemaid/20/Poplar, London/Census
1902/Ernest Thomas Payne/../../../Kelly's ****
1908/George Brighton/../../../Kelly's
1912/Mrs. Sarah Ann Cundy/../../../Kelly's
1917/Mrs. Sarah Ann Cundy/../../../Kelly's
1925/Mrs. Sarah Ann Cundy/../../../Kelly's
1934/Thomas Mercer/../../../Kelly's ****
1935/Thomas Mercer/../../../Post Office Directory **
1950/Jim Church/../../../Black Eagle Journal ***
"While not unique, a double sided inn sign is sufficiently unusual to have
aroused considerable interest. Especially around the docks area where the Tidal
Basin Tavern is known as one of the most persistently blitzed of all dockland
houses.
On Monday, January 30th, a new sign was unveiled there by the bos'n of the Royal
Mail Ship, Highland Brigade. The sign bears on one side the painting of the
Highland Brigade, a 14,700 ton vessel, and on the other a painting of the
Teviot, a paddle steamer which sailed from the London Docks in 1847.
Jim Church, the licensee of the Tidal Basin Tavern, and his wife, are well known
to the crews of the Royal Mail Line Ships, which berth at the Royal Victoria
Docks, adjacent to the house. At the time of the unveiling, the Highland Brigade
was at anchor and the outline of the ship, against the skyline behind the Tidal
Basin Tavern, was a fitting background to such an occasion.
A party from the Bolivian Embassy was present at the unveiling (the Royal Mail
Line Ships call at S America0, and J W C Lynch, R J Bracken and H G Spillane
represented the brewery." - Spring 1950 'The Black Eagle, Quarterly Journal of
Truman's Brewers ***
J Burton, died on May 16th 1961, aged 90 years. He had been the licensee of the
Prince of Wales, Enfield, for twenty seven years; and previously at the Tidal
Basin Tavern and the Ram, Silvertown - Black Eagle Journal ***
** Provided by Stephen Harris
*** Provided by Alex Wilkinson
**** Provided by Kevan