Formerly The White Hart PH, 231 Lower Clapton Road, E5

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The White Hart is a late 19th-century public house built on the site of the White Hart Hotel. This pub was present by 1722 and was rebuilt in the 1830s after the earlier pub burned down and again rebuilt in the 1890s – the latter rebuilding possibly as a consequence of a gas explosion in the area. In the 1890s it was a Reid’s Brewery pub, and by the 1980s it was tied to Bass Charrington. By 1983 the pub was trading as Schnapps, and it passed through a few names before closing in around 2001. It reopened as Chimes - a late-night bar and music venue. Other names followed, with the former pub part of the building slipping into dereliction, before final closure came in 2008. The White Hart has now been bought by a pub owning company called Antic. It is scheduled to reopen in 2011 as the Clapton Hart Public House.

Victorian (1838-1901)

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This late Victorian pub is one of the few 19th-century buildings left on this part of Lower Clapton Road. Originally Lower and Upper Clapton were united with a parade of shops and houses that were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Lea Bridge Roundabout. This is the last building in this area that follows the 19th-century street pattern.