The Festive
2020, 45 minutes
The Festival Inn is a time capsule. In a pocket of white, working-class London, it is slowly being squeezed by changes in the makeup of society.
Tucked in a corner of East London's Chrisp Street Market, and in the shadow of Canary Wharf, The Festival Inn is the social hub for a community of forgotten people. Built in 1951, and named for the Festival of Britain, The Festive, as the locals call it, harks back to a bygone era. A Grade II listed building by Historic England, The Festive was the first permanent modern pub of the post-war era, and remains "an extremely rare survivor of a little-altered pub of the early post-war period". The clientele too remains unaltered, with generations of the same white working-class family serving behind the bar to generations of the same white working-class families ordering pints and drowning their sorrows. But the world just a couple of steps out the pub has changed dramatically....
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