Charlie Brown's was the common name for the Railway Tavern

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

Limehouse Limehouse is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It is east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames. Its proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains throug ...

, London. The pub was built on the corner of Garford Street and the

West India Dock Road West India Dock Road is a road in Limehouse in London's East End. It connects Commercial Road with the entrance to the West India Docks. History Ralph Walker, engineer of the West India Dock company, laid the road out in 1802. A single storey ...

and greatly extended in 1919. The pub was demolished in November 1989 during construction of the

Limehouse Link tunnel The Limehouse Link tunnel is a long tunnel under Limehouse in East London on the A1203 road. The tunnel links the eastern end of The Highway to Canary Wharf in London Docklands. Built between 1989 and 1993 at a cost of £293,000,000 it has ...

Source of the name

Charlie Brown was the landlord of the pub from 1893 until his death in June 1932. The exotic location in Chinatown, the character of the landlord and his large collection of curiosities from around the world made Charlie Brown's a tourist attraction. "Following his death, the 'uncrowned king of Limehouse' lay in state in his pub and his funeral procession was one of the biggest the East End had ever seen with 16,000 people gathered at Bow Cemetery." The pub was formally renamed as ''Charlie Brown's'' in 1972.

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On his death, Charlie Brown's daughter Ethel took over the pub. His son (also Charlie Brown) took over the Blue Posts, directly opposite, but in 1938 moved to

South Woodford South Woodford is an area of east London, England, within the London Borough of Redbridge. It adjoins Woodford Green to the north, Walthamstow to the west, Snaresbrook and Wanstead to the south and Redbridge to the east, and is north-east of ...

to a pub which he named ''Charlie Brown’s''. This pub was where Chigwell Road met the 20th-century built Southend Road, to which a link was added to the

North Circular Road The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular) is a ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east via suburban North London, connecting ...

a few years later. In 1972 the pub was demolished when the roundabout was enlarged to allow aspects of the North Circular to have flyovers onto the newly built

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. This roundabout is commonly referred to as Charlie Brown's Roundabout.

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*http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46477#s4 *https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192101/http://www.britannia.com/travel/london/cockney/cbrown.html *http://eastlondonhistory.com/2010/11/07/charlie-browns-pub/ {{Pubs in London Charlie Brown's Limehouse Former pubs in London Demolished buildings and structures in London Buildings and structures demolished in 1989