Whitecross Tap

Status: Open
Address: 142-146 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8QJ (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Islington
Former name(s): Trader
Molly Bloom's
Eagle and Stump
Spread Eagle
Former address: 142 Whitecross Street (1915)
137 Upper Whitecross Street [or 137 Whitecross Street, or 137 White Cross Street] (1884)
Historical parish: St Luke
Dates open: by 1789-
rebuilt c1940s
Owner: Ei Group/Stonegate Pub Company
Bramwell Pub Company [Smith and Jones] (former)
Barracuda Group [Smith and Jones] (former)
Watney Combe Reid (former)
Website: Website
Notes: Renamed as the "Trader" in 1999, and as the "Whitecross Tap" in 2018.
Photo taken in May 2008
Sources: Open date: Archives
Rebuilding date: Pub Wiki
Renaming: Pub Wiki/WhatPub
Owner: WhatPub
London Drinker WP30
PO 1839/1841/1856/1869/1882/1895/1915 (all as "Spread Eagle")
Tris C (e-mail)
References: MS 11936/359/553796
MS 11936/397/621862
MS 11936/409/665462
MS 11936/463/895422
MS 11936/513/1065961
MS 11936/547/1215993
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