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Then called the Romford Arms, this was George Hutchinson's local. On the night of 9 November 1888 — the night Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in Miller's Court — Hutchinson told police he'd been walking home past the pub when he saw Kelly with a well-dressed man. His description was extraordinarily detailed: astrakhan coat, dark eyes, horseshoe pin, thick gold watch chain. So detailed, in fact, that some Ripperologists think Hutchinson himself belongs on the suspect list. The Pride of Spitalfields is one of the last unreconstructed Victorian boozers in Spitalfields. It's been in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide for years, the interior hasn't changed much, and there's a resident cat called Lenny who'll ignore you from whichever chair he's claimed. It's down a side street off Brick Lane — easy to walk past if you're not looking for it.