Crown and Half Crown

Status: Open
Address: 416-418 Mare Street, E8 1HP (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Hackney
Former name(s): Flynn's
Tommy Flynn's
Wishing Well
Fiddler's
O'Neill's Bar
Crown
Former address: 418 Mare Street (pre-2021)
Church Street (1866)
Historical parish: Hackney
Dates open: by 1856-
Owner: Stonegate Pub Company/True Pub Holdings
Ei Group/Tommy Flynn's (former)
Bar Group [Wishing Well Pub Group] (former)
Truman Hanbury Buxton (former)
Website: Website
Notes: Renamed as the "Wishing Well" in 2002, as "Tommy Flynn's" in 2013, as "Flynn's" in 2017, and as the "Crown and Half Crown" in 2021 (expanding to the property next door, with two separate bars and a guesthouse).
Photo taken in December 2025
Sources: Owner: CAMRA
Renaming: EM/CAMRA
London Drinker U234/WP17/WP26/WP27/WP44
OS 1873/1895/1913/1959 (as "Crown")/1979 (as "Crown")
PO 1856/1874/1896/1915 (all as "Crown")
References: B/THB/D/072
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