Walking Tour - Mr Blake's Tree Full of Angels (Richard's Soho Pub Walk)

Schedule

Wed Dec 02 2026 at 02:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00
Location

Oxford Circus tube station | London, EN

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A whimsical tour in west Soho, seeing its history through pubs, including a dodgy pump, a visionary poet and an arm-less bard.
About this Event

Richard’s walk takes in a famous London department store which had its own local; a pub with an infamous pump on the street outside and a route marked by morbid watering holes.

It's amazing how pubs can be portals to the history of the area: its trade and industry, entertainment and wider culture and of course the local drinking habits.

Plotting a course around west Soho: Carnaby Street, Golden Square, Brewer Street (appropriately) and Piccadilly Circus, we find gorgeous gin palaces; curious pub names and an arm-less Bard. We take in a poet who saw visions of angels; a master Italian painter (or an imposter!?); kissing and stripping scandals and one pub which really doesn’t pull its punches!

This colourful and surprising history walk of course includes an interval pub stop.






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Where is it happening?

Oxford Circus tube station, Oxford Circus tube station, outside exit 6, opposite the Argyle Arms pub, London, United Kingdom

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Tickets

GBP 12.50 to GBP 17.50

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Richard Watkins, Footprints of London
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