Above photo, circa 1865, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

Information from Ben Levick

The "Anchor and Hope" is the building on the corner with the sign-board sticking out. Beyond it, on the other side of Wood Street is the "Crown" Pub.

This pub seems to have opened sometime in the 1840s, and lasted only a generation or so. One of many Brompton pubs named with a naval theme, possibly a corruption of the naval term ‘hope anchor', the spare anchor carried by some ships. Other possible origins may be religious connotations of trust, or perhaps the pub was opened by an old sailor with his savings/prize money/etc., who saw the pub as something of a gamble. The local licensing records for 1872 show that the licence was not renewed as on August 23 of that year the pub was ‘about to be pulled down.'