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The Widow's Son, London

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sold the property to Dalco Developments who proposed to close the pub and redevelop the site. In May 2013, planning permission for the "development of a second floor 5x bedroom flat above existing Grade II* Listed Widows Son Public House; alterations to the existing building; and development of new
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More considered accounts take the view that the specific story of the widow and her son is unlikely to be true, as the underlying custom of a belief in the special properties of buns baked on Good Friday was widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries. From at least as early as the mid-18th century,
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waiting for him. He never returned, but his mother continued to keep a fresh hot cross bun every Good Friday for the rest of her life. After her death, a huge collection of hot cross buns was discovered in a net hanging from the ceiling of her cottage.
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In 2016, new plans were submitted – not to redevelop the pub itself, but to erect terraced houses in the space presently used as the pub car-park and beer garden.
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In 2013, it was noted by a local newspaper that 93-year-old Patrick Hines, who was born opposite the pub, has visited every Good Friday for nearly 70 years.
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In 1848, the public house that was built upon the site of her cottage was named in honour of the tradition she had created. It is locally known as the
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The pub was closed, it was thought permanently, in 2015–17. The 2016 ceremony was instead carried out at the
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A comparable tradition of nailing buns to the ceiling on Good Friday exists at the Bell Inn at
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For some years the annual bun has been specially baked by Mr Bunn of Mr Bunn's Bakery,
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three storey 2 x 4 bed houses in adjacent Public House beer garden" was refused.
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Royal Navy sailor Alan Beckett places the bun on Good Friday, 4 April 1958
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The pub was closed for a year and reopened early in 2017.
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Known locally as "Bun House", the pub has been host to a
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Index


Bromley-by-Bow
Listed Building

Grade II* listed
public house
Devons Road
Bromley-by-Bow
East London
Good Friday
hot cross buns
Good Friday
Napoleonic Wars
hot cross bun
Chadwell Heath
Queens Head
Limehouse
Horndon-on-the-Hill
Punch Taverns


Historic England
"Tabard Hotel public house (1065801)"
National Heritage List for England





"Another hot cross bun hung up for Widow's Son — 200 years on"

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