Docking at the Prospect of Whitby

Another exercise walk around East London today, down the canal through Wapping, and home via Spitalfields - a clockwise loop.    We hit Wapping at very low tide, and headed onto the beach  below the Prospect of Whitby.  It's got a very interesting history (and is a good place for a pub dinner back in the days when that was possible).    There is a noose hanging off the back of the pub which Wiki tells me is a nod to "Hanging" Judge Jeffreys who used to drink there.  So did Dickens and Samuel Pepys.  And the first fuchsia plant in the UK was sold here.    I assume this is a dock ring that boats used back in the day to tie a line to.   It's lasted well.