Walking Tour - From Sherlock's Sitting Room to Nell Gwynne's Den
Schedule
Tue Jul 30 2024 at 02:30 pm to 04:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Embankment tube, District, Circle and Northern Line | London, EN
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About this Event
Richard's pub tour brings you the strange tale of one pub named after an eighteenth century naval disaster; why one is named after a famous literary sleuth and another after a real maverick policing outfit. We pass a pub frequented by a highwayman; ones related to Dickens and Turner and a glamorous theatre star turned king's mistress along with one where rough bare knuckle boxing was staged (spoiler alert: no fighting today, in fact it's a lovely boozer).
It's all too easy to take Covent Garden's pubs for granted as just nice drinking holes . But they are so much more: they hold hundreds of years of west-end life within their walls; housed in some terrific old buildngs, some listed; with names redolent of that local history and they attracted historic drinkers. As well as purveying some gorgeous drinks!
And Richard will have a mid-walk stop in one of these fine historic hostelries..
Where is it happening?
Embankment tube, District, Circle and Northern Line, Embankment tube, exit Villiers Street side, away from the river., London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 10.00 to GBP 15.00
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