Walking Tour – From Sherlock’s Sitting Room to Nell Gwynn’s Den: West End Pub History Tour

It’s all too easy to take Covent Garden’s pubs for granted as just nice drinking holes . But they are so much more: they hold hundreds of years of west-end life within their walls; housed in some terrific old buildngs, some listed; with names redolent of that local history and they attracted historic drinkers.
Richard’s pub tour brings you the strange tale of one pub named after an eighteenth century naval disaster; why one is named after a famous literary sleuth and another after a real maverick policing outfit. We pass a pub frequented by a glamorous highwayman, an illustrious theatre star turned king’s mistress along with one where rough bare knuckle boxing was staged (spoiler alert: no fighting today, in fact it’s a lovely boozer).
And on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of JMW Turner’s birth, we pass the pub on the site of his birth.
And Richard will have a mid-walk stop in one of these fine historic hostelries..