The Queen Hotel, Cubitt Town.

My wife is a geordie and asked me to take her to the the real East End and so we bought a travelcard and visited a few pubs. I had bought some books earlier in the day and the alchohol must have dulled my mind and I left them under the stool at the "Queen". It was not until we got back to a pub in Bow (the Bow Bells) that I realised that I had forgotten my books and so I left my wife perched on a stool in the Bow Bells and returned to "The Queen" and asked the barmaid if anyone had handed in my books and she replied.

Anything else and I would say no, but books- no one can read round here, they will be where you left them - sure enough !

Yes, I will always remember the Queen with affection.