The Blind Beggar is a pub located at 337 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben London and the Regions of England London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of approximately 13,945,000 [1]. Londons population includes...

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters, the Kray Twins. On 9 March 1966, Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, an associate of a rival gang, as he was sitting at the bar. The term East End is most commonly used to refer to the East End of London. ... Ronald Kray (1933 - 1995) and Reginald Kray (1933 - 2000) were twin brothers, and the foremost organised crime leaders in London in the 1960s. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

The pub is also a popular starting point for the Monopoly Pub Crawl, despite being located on the board's third space. A Monopoly Pub Crawl is a pub crawl involving visiting public houses on each of the streets of a city which appear on that citys version of the Monopoly Board. ...

External links

• Review of The Blind Beggar.