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Looking back at my ramblings I do seem to have written a fair few regarding drinks, whether they be alcoholic or just restorative and...

Don’t know about you, but my go to in the pub snack department is the good old pork scratchin’, nothing better with a pint. I’ve had a...

Probably best I explain from the beginning, Jessie Matthews was an actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career...

I came across a seasonal tale recently, one that Charles Dickens if he’d been alive at the time might have woven into one of his stories...

Six Word Saturday The Pregnant Man, 40 Chancery Lane WC2A Once the private drinking establishment of the advertising agency Saatchi &...

Today’s Clerkenwell is popular with creative firms and dotted with smart apartment blocks in converted warehouses. It has many good...

Do you sometimes get that feeling? The one where you know something is just not quite right, but you can’t put your finger on why. It...

Greek Street, Soho I’ve always found Greek Street in Soho to be a bit of an oasis, if a slightly shabby one when compared to some of it’s...

Six Word Saturday The Hoop & Grapes Farringdon Street. The Hoop and Grapes was built in 1721 on part of the historic burial grounds of St...

I’ve just added the City of London Schedule of works and road closures website to my favourites. Not exactly bed time reading, but as I...

One Word Sunday #London #OWS #Pubs

Old Jewry is a street that runs north to south connecting the Guildhall to Cheapside. In the 1600s an Inn used to stand at the north end...

Now there’s a name to go by. A tough Georgian bare knuckle pugilist, or a renown Victorian cricketer known for stubbornly occupying his...

John Strype Whilst rooting about in A Survey Of The Cities Of London and Westminster written by John Strype in the 1720s for some...

You may remember dear reader that on Monday I came clean about my recent book buying binge? Well another tome has just landed with a...

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. A little misleading perhaps, as lunches free or otherwise are not contained in this post,...

One Word Sunday There has been a pub at this location since 1538, which burnt down during the Great Fire in 1666. It was one of the first...

Pedant: (noun) A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules. I’m afraid I’m one of those people who shouts at the...

Dule: Collective noun for a group of Doves. It’s funny how things creep up on you. I’d finished writing my last post about the book...

This is the fifth post about the wards that make up the the City of London. These links will take you to the post about Aldersgate,...