The Tooke Arms is a pub on Westferry Road on the Isle of Dogs in East London. The pub sits within the Barkantine Estate, away from the more polished riverside and financial-district image often associated with Canary Wharf and Docklands. Its plain estate-pub exterior, low-key interior and local atmosphere give it a very different screen identity from London’s older wood-panelled pubs or expensive central bars. The location has a practical, lived-in character, with the surrounding estate and Westferry Road setting making it useful for crime drama material rooted in everyday East London.
The Tooke Arms appears in MobLand (2025–), where it is used as The Sinful Monkey, the criminal base of Richie Stevenson. The series filmed at the pub several times, using both the real exterior and interior with very little set dressing. In the show, The Sinful Monkey functions as a regular meeting point for Richie’s operation and a place where threats, deals and confrontations take place away from the more polished worlds of the Harrigan and Stevenson families.
In MobLand (2025), The Tooke Arms appears as The Sinful Monkey. Harry Da Souza visits the pub while dealing with the fallout from the conflict between the Harrigans and the Stevensons, and the location becomes closely tied to Richie Stevenson’s side of the criminal world. One key scene takes place in the pub’s basement, where Harry confronts Richie about his missing son. The pub is also used for several other meetings and tense exchanges, with the ordinary estate-pub setting making the violence and intimidation feel more local and direct than the show’s grander London locations.
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