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Hi

I attach a family photo of what looks like a "girls(!) day out" in maybe the 1950s. In the background you can see a pub "The Peveril". Any idea where it might be?

Most of my relatives come from the East End of London but I don't recognise the area and can't find any evidence of a pub of this name in London

I don't know of a pub of that name but might your relatives have travelled north? There is a Peveril Castle in Castleton built for a William Peveril in Norman times so perhaps there was a pub/hotel in the area as well.

Is that a telescope thing above their heads? East End makes me think Eastenders and Southend. There was a Peveril Restaurant on Marine Parade - maybe it was that?

See here http://www.rochforddistricthistory.org. ... iar_people and the cutting from a book about a 1940s murder

The telescope thingy looks like a radio communication mast.

gardener wrote:Is that a telescope thing above their heads? East End makes me think Eastenders and Southend. There was a Peveril Restaurant on Marine Parade - maybe it was that?

See here http://www.rochforddistricthistory.org. ... iar_people and the cutting from a book about a 1940s murder

Think it is Southend there is this old photo
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... -514853481

and now the Royals shopping centre
there is a building to the right which looks like this one
https://www.royalsshoppingcentre.co.uk/ ... ntre-1980s

Thanks for the replyies Southend makes a lot of sense, it was a favourite day out of many of the oldies in my extended family