smithy
1:58 Tue Mar 10
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Here is an interesting fact... Your night out is going to be fucking shit!!
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DANNY66
1:58 Tue Mar 10
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Gavros
2:00 Tue Mar 10
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ye olde cheshrie cheese is where dickens and dr johnson drank, so slip in that fact while youre sinking your eighth pint.
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Syd Puddefoot
2:00 Tue Mar 10
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If you have a budget do one of these. They will do you a private one for a reasonable rate, so don't rely on the normal schedule / timetable.. Ghost Tour takes in pubs and history. both mainstream and quirky and was a hit with my lot when I had to do something similar. Added benefit is that you can enjoy it as well,
http://www.londonwalks.com/
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riosleftsock
2:02 Tue Mar 10
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See if you can find the mitre off hatton garden. Then try and find your way back to the man road afterwards.
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ooooh Morley Morley
2:02 Tue Mar 10
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A pint of Peroni USED to cost under a fiver.
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riosleftsock
2:02 Tue Mar 10
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*main
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BRANDED
2:03 Tue Mar 10
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Sarah Ballpalsy 1:55 Tue Mar 10
I thought that once I'd given you the list of good pubs you could do the research on them?
You lazy cow.
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LJC
2:04 Tue Mar 10
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Gavros that pub has a toilet behind the book case doesn't it?
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Gavros
2:07 Tue Mar 10
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i am led to believe so. i dont have a RENDER of that, however.
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riosleftsock
2:07 Tue Mar 10
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No, and its a shithole
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Grumpster
2:07 Tue Mar 10
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As Syd mentioned, the ghost walk is excellent and is very good for the history of the area.
My personal favourite was the woman who was paid by people to look after their babies, as in the long run it would be cheaper for them. The second they were round the corner, she walked down the Thames, weighted them down in a bag and threw them in.
No surprise that she was hung outside The Old Bailey, which at the time had an open front pub opposite, so that people could reserve places to watch the executions while having a fry up.
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LJC
2:09 Tue Mar 10
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It does rio
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Grumpster
2:10 Tue Mar 10
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Also if you're anywhere near Barts Hospital, right at the end towards the market is the spot where William Wallace was cut into little pieces the jock mug.
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riosleftsock
2:13 Tue Mar 10
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I've been in it a fair few times, not lately, don't remember a toilet behind a bookcase.
I do remember it was a filthy shithole.
The crutched friars up the road is much better.
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Britannia Pub
2:15 Tue Mar 10
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Not sure if true but have heard in the past that there are no "Roads" in the City of London. They are all Streets, Alleys, Places, etc.
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Captain_Flashman
2:16 Tue Mar 10
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Surely my dear there will be time enough to take in the London Stone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone
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Far Cough
2:17 Tue Mar 10
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Commercial road?
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1964
2:18 Tue Mar 10
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Britannia Pub 2:15 Tue Mar 10
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Steady
2:18 Tue Mar 10
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One of the greatest pieces of trivia you will ever hear about the City of London is that it contains no Roads. There are plenty of Streets, Squares and Alleys, but traditionally not a single Road.
This is only true on a technicality of wording, however.
The Square Mile survived for hundreds of years without any Roads, right up until boundary changes in 1994. At that time, the eastern half of Goswell Road was brought — reluctantly we’re told — under the jurisdiction of the City, while the western half remained in the Borough of Islington.
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Ace of Spades
2:19 Tue Mar 10
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The train tracks out.
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