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The Cutty Sark is a Grade II listed public house at 6-7 Ballast Quay, Greenwich, London. [1] It was built in the early 19th century, [1] replacing an earlier pub, The Green Man. It was initially called The Union Tavern, but was renamed The Cutty Sark Tavern when the tea clipper came to Greenwich in 1951. [2]
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
The music intensifies as the witches are dancing and, upon seeing one particularly wanton witch in a short dress, Tam loses his reason and shouts, '"Weel done, cutty-sark!" ("cutty-sark": short shirt). Immediately, the lights go out, the music and dancing stop, and many of the creatures lunge after Tam, with the witches leading.
A Willis Tea Line Clipper, by Frederick Tudgay The first vessel purchased by John Willis was the 253-ton Sunderland -built barque Demarara Planter in 1830, [ 1 ] which sailed to the West Indies . Many of the ships later built by the firm were named after places in Willis' native county of Berwickshire. [ 1 ]
Since 1870, Cutty Sark has been operated on the tea line, but the results shown are rated as average. The clipper's highest achievement was third place in the race 1871, when the Cutty Sark only let the legendary hounds ahead — « Titania » and « Thermopylae ».
"Lions" by Dire Straits (mentions – The Cutty Sark, Tea Clipper in dry dock at Greenwich) "Lions of Charing Cross" by Blow Monkeys "Little Miss Pipedream" by The Wombats ("cause foggy London town's not built for me or you") "Little Miss Portobello" by Kevin Coyne "The Little Old Church Near Leicester Square" by Freddy Martin
Cutty Sark, Greenwich: 19th century II 6–7 Ballast Quay Kings Arms, Woolwich ***** 1 Frances St. Bombed by the IRA in 1974. Now [2018] closed (to be demolished). The Mitre, Greenwich: Convivial London Pubs c.1840 II 291 Greenwich High Road Spanish Galleon, Greenwich: Shepherd Neame: 1836 II 1 College Approach Sun in the Sands: 1745
It runs northwards from the entrance to Greenwich Park along the edge of the Old Royal Naval College to the Cutty Sark and the nearby Greenwich foot tunnel. The western side of the street comprises a mixture of residential and commercial properties, with several shops, restaurants and, south of Nelson Road, two pubs .