The Blind Beggar The Blind Beggar The Blind Beggar is a pub on Whitechapel Road in Whitechapel in the East End of London, England. It is where Ronnie Kray murdered George Cornell in front of witnesses, and is the location of William Booth's first sermon, which led to the creation of the Salvation Army. It was the nearest outlet (or brewery tap) for the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern Brown Ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and takes its name from the legend of Henry de
Burton Ale the direction of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip. The catalogue of The Great Exhibition in 1851 advertised: In 1853 the firm opened a depot in London in which year an 18 gallon cask of "Allsopp's Strong (the Old Burton) Ale" cost 45s, compared to 30s for pale ale and 33s for mild ale. "Well into the 19th century, Bass had six different versions of Burton Ale, ranging from 6% to 10.5% in strength. Bass No 1 ... is labelled a barley wine but is in fact the last-remaining example of Bass's Burton Ales." In 1876 Bass obtained the first two