London Pubs Walking Tour

This fun and engaging walking tour — led by public historian  and tour guide Sheldon K Goodman —  will explore the enigmatic streets  and alleys of Holborn, Farringdon and Clerkenwell which play host to a  roster of legendary pubs such as The Cheshire Cheese, The Rising Sun and  The Fox and Anchor.

Inspired by Open City's new book Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub,  the tour will celebrate the incredible diversity, design and stories of  London’s public houses as we are at last able to enjoy them again.

For centuries, the London pub has been a place of social  fermentation where all manner of people have come to drink, think, share  stories and company. Surviving plagues, bombs, fires and floods, they  have borne witness to wakes, weddings and the writing of world-changing  manifestos.

London’s pubs have provided the social and architectural  infrastructure for civic life to thrive with a…