First mentioned in 1174. Closed by about 1850 and effectively lost. Rediscovered in 1924 during building works.
We normally find pictures of our subjects out on the web but we just could not find a picture of the Clerks' well so we went back and took our own, through the glass. It may not be a very good picture but it's the only one there is.
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Clerks' well at Clerkenwell
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Wheatsheaf pub
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Bakers Chop House
A tavern/restaurant at 1 Change Alley. 2019: We were kindly contacted by Raymond Cross who told us that his great great uncle, William Mann Cross ( ? - 1919) was the owner and proprietor of this r...
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Goat in Boots
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1 memorial
Lion Brewery
The (Red) Lion Brewery, designed by Francis Edwards, stood on the South Bank from 1836. The brewery occupied the site now used by the Royal Festival Hall and its stables, warehouses, etc. were on a...
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The George Pub, Fleet Street
Founded in 1723 as a coffee house, became Georges Hotel in 1830 and then a public house as it is today. Current building is late Victorian.
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Sir John MacDougall
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Sir John Davidson
Treasurer of the Pulford Street Site Committee. This is possibly Sir John Humphrey Davidson (1876–1954), who was a military man until 1922 when he left the army and then became MP in Fareham, Ken...
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Bob Marley - WC1
WC1, Ridgmount Gardens, 34
Marley lived here on the first of his many visits to London. This plaque was erected 25 years after his death. Getty Images have some pho...
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