Is Walthamstow really home to Britain's 'toughest' pub?

Plus London’s ‘oldest house’ is right here in E17 and it was snapped up pretty quickly when it recently came onto the market for rent.

“Scary customers”, “random acts of violence”, “grim facilities” and “a haven for hard men with flat noses”. Few pubs can have had such a fearsome reputation as the one The Tavern on the Hill reputedly once had.

The pub was once reported to be among the UK’s toughest. But, surely, if it’s part of Walthamstow, it can no longer be that bad? Our reporter wen…