This is a wonderfully-quaint little old pub, with the air of a smuggler’s den, the kind of place you would expect to find in a Cornish fishing village (but probably wouldn’t). The entrance down a small alley reinforces this impression, and the interior doesn’t disappoint, full of nautical paraphernalia and sundry bric-a-brac. At the rear of the pub, rather than a balcony or terrace, there is a wooden deck over the Thames, overlooking the Mayflower’s original mooring point. It was from this point, on the Rotherhithe riverside that the Mayflower, the ship that carried the religious dissenters known as The Pilgrim Fathers to America, set sail in 1620 from outside the inn then occupying this spot.