Inside the Grapes public house.

Repro ID: H5436

Description: This famous riverside tavern is described in Charles Dicken's book 'Our Mutual Friend'. In the novel the pub is known as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters Tavern and is kept by Miss Abbey Potterson, who according to Dicken's 'reigned supreme on her throne, the bar, and a man must have drunk himself mad drunk indeed if he thought he could contest a point with her....She was a tall, upright, well-favoured woman, though severe of countenance, and had more of the air of a schoolmistress than mistress of the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters'.

Creator: Cleve Severin

Date: 2003

Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London