Drinking
Fancy a pint?
Nos 1 Fleet Street
Sounds good name for a pub...
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Smile, It may never happen..
Strandman will be drinking tonight at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.
The playwrights William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were once patrons at the old Mitre Tavern, now No. 37 Fleet Street. Samuel Pepys and Dr Samuel Johnson drank at the Devil's Tavern, at No. I , and Dr Johnson was also a regular of the most famous of Fleet Street's taverns, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Parts of this building, set on the corner with Wine Office Court, date back to 1667, when the tavern was rebuilt after the Great Fire. It is one of the few pubs in London to have retained the 18th century arrangement of small rooms with fireplaces, tables and benches. Dr Johnson's association with 'the Cheese' made the tavern a place of pilgrimage for many 19th century literary figures including Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
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