Floating opposite the London Eye between Westminster and Embankment tube stations, with views of Big Ben, the pub was relocated 100 yards down the Thames in a £1m move as part of the River Thames clean up.
The reopening has been slightly delayed, however, aftter an unexploded WW2 bomb was dredged up in January, leading to an operation by the Royal Navy and Metropolitan police that closed Westminster for a few hours and resulted in even more stringent checks and new surveillance equipment being brought in.
The company used the time to undergo a large refurbishment, and officially celebrated the reopening on Wednesday 5 July.
The pub offers fish and chips on the deck, meals in the wardroom, weddings in the stateroom, intimate gatherings in the Bridge, and drinks in the lounge, with comedy nights every Tuesday and Jazz on the river every first Wednesday of the month.
The Tattershall Castle, originally in service on the Hull estuary, retired in 1973 and moved to London’s Embankment in 1975 where it was opened by the then Lord Mayor of London as the capital’s first floating Art Gallery and Conference Centre. It reopened as a popular Londoner and tourist bar and restaurant destination in 1982 and was refurbished in 2014, being tugged all the way to Hull, its birthplace, and returning to its site in 2015 following a £1m refit.
