LONDON PUB TOUR
Best Historic Drinking Spots of Ole London Town
What
is a visit to ole London Town without tossing back a pint or two? Some
popular pubs now spill out into the street with smokers not allowed
to puff inside. In fact you can locate the nearest popular pubs by
the gang of people hanging out on the sidewalk and often into the street
from early afternoon until the wee hours of the morning, (it appears
the new 24 hour laws have apparently not had the desired effect). If
looking for an escape from modern London and in search of a bit of the
old character of the classic
historic
London pub here are a few to
explore to get tipsy where the famous of history’s glories took
their draughts.
Bend your elbow where famed Victorian era author Charles Dickens wrote one of his favorite drinking spots into his novel “Little Dorit”, The George Inn on Borough High Street first opened in the 18th Century and is now a National Trust site. Satirist artist William Hogarth, prickler of the foibles of English society and his drinking buddy, composer Georg Frederic Handel liked tipping a pint at the Jerusalem Tavern in Britton Street, where some original London ales can still be sampled. Continue your London pub tour and set your papal staff down for a rest at the Ye Olde Mitre in Ely Court off Chancery Lane where the current bar built in 1772 replaced the one first founded in 1546 where the Queen Elizabeth I (billed as the "Virgin Queen", though one has one's doubts (see Kenilworth Castle) reputedly cavorted with unqueenly frivolity around a faithfully preserved tree trunk once serving as a Maypole.
And speaking
of regal
Elizabeth’s, The
Windsor Castle is not only a royal residence a fair distance
out of town (see Windsor),
but it is also the name of a pub in Kensington on Campden Hill Road
where decidedly un-royal farmers
once drank
when
bringing
their hogs to town for market. Dean Street is the center of London’s
entertainment industry district where the offices of film and tv
companies are found and The French House got its
name from the resistance fighters from WWII who met there and around
the corner
on
Greek street. The
Coach and Horses is one of the area's show folk hangouts.
Although nothing
particularly historic happened there (except in fiction), The
Sherlock Holmes Pub is quite
the curiosity and very popular, and the Tattershall
Castle Pub is
an historic steam ship actually on the Thames River. © Bargain
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George Inn
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Jerusalem Tavern
20 7490 4281
Ye Olde Mitre
20 7405 4751
The French House
20 7437 2799
The Coach and Horses
20 7437 5920
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST HITCHCOCK THEME PUB
TOWER OF LONDON - THE FAMILY JEWELS
MARITIME MUSEUM AND ROYAL OBSERVATORY
FROM
TRAITOR'S GATE TO MORTIMER'S HOLE
