The WhatPub entry is here: WhatPub/George

Although this pub is not a listed building it is on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) London Regional Inventory of Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest and the description is as follows: “The George was rebuilt in a rather austere, red-brick neo-Georgian style about 1930 and has kept three separate rooms and many original fittings. The best room is the left-hand one on the long façade. This has extensive panelling, the original bar counter and fittings and a series of pretty plaster friezes decorated with what appear to be blackberries (too knobbly for grapes!) and dog roses. There are a few Art Deco details scattered around, as for example on the fire surround. Two openings lead to a modern conservatory dining area. The next room is a small snug entirely separated from the previous one and again has various fittings from about 1930. A door leads on to the corner bar, the most interesting feature of which is a bar counter with hefty, lapped boards to the front. This area has incorporated an off-sales area, detectable in a blocked doorway which is visible outside. Most of the panelling in this room is relatively modern wood and is rather cheaply done.

History round about: The Isle of Dogs is the promontory of land formed by a loop in the Thames opposite Greenwich. Not an island originally, the name (obscure in itself) is taken from a long-vanished island in the river. It was farmland until the northern part became the site of the West India Docks (opened 1802). Then in 1805 a canal was cut across the top of the peninsula so that at last the Isle of Dogs became an island.”

Pevsner’s Buildings of England London 5: East says that the pub was rebuilt in 1932.

The George featured on the Evening Crawl of Limehouse, Isle of Dogs, and Greenwich in April 2005, the Ornaments of the Orient: Daytime Crawl of Bow and Docklands in October 2009, the Going to the Dogs: Daytime Crawl of the Isle of Dogs, Poplar, Limehouse and Stepney in October 2015, and the >