When was the Angel and Trumpet PH in Stepney bombed?

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Could someone please tell me how to find the exact date when the Angel and Trumpet public house, 2 High Street, Stepney, Middlesex was destroyed, supposedly by an enemy bomb.  The pub disappeared from Directories in 1942, but I suspect the destruction occurred in 1940 or 1941.
Was there a newspaper report and does a photograph of the pub exist? There is nothing on deadpubs.co.uk.
Glad to say that the landlady, my great-grandmother Emily Louisa Carter (nee Golding) born Bromley, Middx. in 1878, survived the event.  Emily was the widow of the previous licensee Allan George Carter (born Orsett, Essex 1879, died Stepney 1934).

I shall be extremely grateful for any advice.

Warm regards from Vienna

Kevin

[The Mc]

Have you seen this site?

http://deadpubs.co.uk/LondonPubs/MileEnd/Angel/Trumpet.shtml

Click on London pub history and there is a lot of info on the pub.

[Kevin, now in Chester]

I have seen the wonderful and eclectic deadpubs.co.uk website and have added what I know, but it does not give the exact details I am looking for.

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply

Warm regards

Kevin in Vienna

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Does anybody have a photograph of the Angel and Trumpet Public House, 2 High Street, Stepney?
The castellated building stood opposite St Dunstan's, the Parish Church of Stepney, at the junction of the High Street, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney Green and White Horse Lane.
Perhaps it features in the background of an event taking place in the area?
I have looked at the photograph collections at the LMA (including the albums of Watney pubs), Tower Hamlets Library and the London Picture Archive.  The latter has a picture of a vacant lot at the place where it stood until it was destroyed in WWII (see earlier post).  It is now the Stepney City Farm.
My late father and his sisters were all born at the Pub (upstairs, not in the bar) and we plan to celebrate there, what would have been his 100th birthday in May.

[Bookbox]

Could someone please tell me how to find the exact date when the Angel and Trumpet public house, 2 High Street, Stepney, Middlesex was destroyed, supposedly by an enemy bomb.  The pub disappeared from Directories in 1942, but I suspect the destruction occurred in 1940 or 1941.

The London Archives have recently indexed nearly all of the LCC Air Raid Report Books, which give the exact date for each incident. The database is searchable by address/location and many other keywords. It is not online, but lookups are quick and easy, and they may be willing to do it for you if you stress that you're not in London.

More information here
https://www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/recording-the-war-the-air-raid-report-books

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Thank you for this. I shall certainly call at the LMA when I am in London next week.

I did find something in the East London Advertiser of Saturday 5 October 1940 which said, below a heading of Public House Ablaze: Already Suffered Previously Now Gutted By Fire.  “…an incendiary bomb, however started a fire in a well-known public house, beginning a fierce blaze, which gutted the building.  The public house had suffered minor damage previously, bombs have fallen on two occasions, but had still continued trading, in a “bombed but not beaten” spirit.

Bombs fell nearby on 13 May, 25 August and again on 8 September.  But it seems local newspapers did not report the specific details of incidents as they may have provided information to the enemy and perhaps demoralized the local population further. 

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Thank you very much to Bookbox for providing this lead and to the London Archive for kindly transcribing and indexing the LCC Air Raid Report Books records.

And the answer is 03.43 on 11 May 1941, destroyed by an incendiary bomb, which destroyed the Angel and Trumpet, 2 High Street, Stepney "a building of two floors and basement about 40 x 40 feet used as Victualler and dwelling house first floor and contents severely damaged by fire, rest of building and contents by heat, smoke and water most part of the roof off".

Glad to say there were no casualties at this building.  Publican Mrs E Carter (nee Golding), "retired" to the Tapestries at Old Windsor and survived for another ten years before passing, aged 73 in 1951. Her late husband, Allen George Carter had passed in 1934, age 56, leaving her as the licensee.

I'll post a separate request for images of the pub.  Thank you again Bookbox. 

[Bookbox]

Thank you for coming back with the answer. I'm very glad you got such an informative result.