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location:
address:
360 Victoria Park Road, E9 7BT
phone:
0871 984 4880*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Homerton 
(880m) - zone 2
Hackney Wick 
(1.1Km)
London Fields
(1.2Km)
Hackney Central
(1.3Km)
Cambridge Heath
(1.4Km)
how to find it:
From Mile End Station, cross Mile End Road and go north up Grove Road until you come to the roundabout where the Victoria Park is, over the canal. Take the right hand park gate, walk through the park and you'll find the pub on the north east side. (Not the side where the lake and the fountain are.) It's a good 20 mins walk.
click for directions to The Victoria Park from wherever you areclick here for a larger map
This pub is about as antithetical as it is possible to be to its previous life as a Firkin and still be a pub. The Falcon & Firkin was a real real ale place, with a brewery on the premises, and everything in the pub revolved around the beer. Now there's not a drop of real ale to be had, replaced by displays of coloured shooters, flavoured schnapps and a standard range of lagers, Guinness and Strongbow. There's not quite as much hardware as there was in the place not so long ago, but there are still plenty of TV screens, gaming machines, juke box and a couple of pool tables to keep the WKD and Dooleys quaffing clientele happy. There's a DJ on Friday and Saturday nights, which we've yet to experience, but overall this is a very ordinary boozer.
19/7/2005
pub features:(click on an icon to see an explanation)
Sky TV (lots of small screens)
beer garden
two pool tables
dj
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