Portrait of a man holding a net of buns from the Widow's Son public house

Date:
1930 - 1950
Location:
The Widow's Son, 75 Devons Road, Bow, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority
Reference:
LON01/01/LO/012
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

A sign on the front of the pub records the legend of the Widow's Son: 'Over the bar ... hangs a cluster of Hot Cross Buns. On Good Friday a sailor will add a new bun to the collection ... a widowed mother, expecting her sailor son home from sea at Easter, saved a Hot Cross Bun for him. He never returned, but for the rest of her life she hung up a bun every Good Friday. Since she died the custom has been faithfully observed'.

Content

This is part of the Sub Series: LON01/01/LO George Long photographic images - London; within the Series: LON01/01 George Long photographic images; within the Collection: LON01 George R Long Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Long, George R

Keywords

Public House, Custom And Tradition, People Posed