 In a May 2016 episode of BBC's EastEnders, the pub is mentioned during a scene featuring Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden when their character's Peggy and Phil Mitchell take a river cruise along the Thames.The pub is mentioned in Louis L'Amour's novel "To the Far Blue Mountains" <ref>"To the Far Blue Mountains" by Louis L'Amour 1973 Chapter 3 Bantam Books </ref>, and in John le Carré's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".It is mentioned in the BBC series "Taboo".