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From: Hamsterwheel
Nice round there now with the pedestrianisation allowing lots of outdoor seating. Spent too much time wandering round there the last few years between visits to GOSH. Years ago when at London Merchant we owned the Fitzroy Tavern, a lovely big pub. Directors decided to flog it for £3.5m. I argued long and hard against it but lost 😞 Around that time we revived the name Fitzrovia to give the area an identity, worked well.

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Spent a tourist day on top of an open bus around Landon. Most enjoyable. Pint in the ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:06:04
>> Always fun showing newbies London. Bet you bored your cook senseless with old tall tales!...[more]	Hamsterwheel	08:01:52
>> They cut the Punch in half years ago, became 2 separate pubs, the other being The ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	06:49:53
>> Sadly, the Olde King Lud is long gone......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	06:53:50
>> I last had a pint there around 2002.	Free Thinking Doggie	06:51:13
>> Sad state now.	Denc 🗡	17:31:20
>> Learnt yesterday (probably not for the first time !) that my local there the ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	08:07:56
>> Very early on in my relationship with the future missus we went to the 'Cheese'....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:31:15
>> Might be growing again as Telegraph building next door is currently being ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	08:37:08
>> Little Essex St EC4. Also one in EC3. Crutched Friars near Tower Hill.	Free Thinking Doggie	08:34:24
>> I still have my old 'London Pubs' spreadsheet.	Free Thinking Doggie	08:39:06
>> The Sun Inn on Lamb's Conduit Street was quite a place in the 1980s - ... [more]	Mike Mike	08:44:09
>> Yup. I remember it....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:59:10
>> school friend of mine wrote this...[more]	Mike Mike	09:24:01
>> Roger Berman himself posted on the thread on this chat (not on *this* chat of course!)...[more]	Mike Mike	08:47:29
>> The Rugby Tavern was close by. Used to meet a mate there in the 90s.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:57:36
>> Still there with the same name I see.	Free Thinking Doggie	11:59:58
>> Nice round there now with the pedestrianisation allowing lots of ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	10:34:19

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