At the corner of North Mill Field, facing the River Lea, was the Jolly Anglers pub.

The primitive building consisted of the bar, kitchen, cellar, and small bed-chamber over the bar, while the other parts have been subsequently added by different tenants.

The construction of the Jolly Anglers may possibly be associated with the collapse of a bridge between 1612 and 1630 and the instatement of ferries (and fords). This may be the location of Smith’s Ferry, crossing over to Essex Wharf.

It was rebuilt around 1840. A sale notice from 1846 describes the Jolly Anglers as having "a handsome tea room with two fireplaces, three bedrooms, a small dining room, a bar and a bar parlour, a tap room, a kitchen and a cellar".

By 1860 it had a side-line hiring out punts and skiffs for use on the Lea Navigation.

In 1879, it was appointed by the Royal Humane Society for "receiving persons apparently drowned or dead, at which drags and other apparatus are kept”.

Converted to industrial use in 1908, it was demolished in the 1930s when the whole area was cleared on health grounds because of the frequent flooding.