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The pub is said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write of the Admiral Benbow Inn in Treasure Island and Daniel Defoe supposedly met William Dampier and Alexander Selkirk there, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. The pub is also supposedly haunted, with up to 15 ghosts and one little green ghoul, the best known being a small man ...
The Eagle in Clerkenwell, London; the first pub to which the term gastropub was applied. A gastropub or gastro pub is a pub that serves food of high quality, [1] with a nearly equal emphasis on eating and drinking. [2] The term was coined in the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
The concept of a restaurant in a pub reinvigorated both pub culture and British dining, [78] though it has also attracted criticism for potentially removing the character of traditional pubs. [79] In 2011, The Good Food Guide suggested that the term has become irrelevant such is its commonality these days. [80]
The pub underwent a renovation in 1951 to double the interior space. [11] In January 1953, the pub was raided by armed robbers. [12] The pub has been visited by Princess Margaret and Prince Rainier III of Monaco. [13] On the opposite side of the road (Wapping Wall) is the former Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, later an arts centre and restaurant.
The Cittie of Yorke is a grade II listed public house on London's High Holborn, and is listed in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [1] [2] The pub is owned and operated by Samuel Smith Old Brewery. Although the current building is a rebuilding of the 1920s, the buildings on this site have been pubs since 1430. [2]
William Hogarth drank here, and is believed to have been involved in planting out the pub garden. [2] The pub gained a music licence in 1867, when Henry Humphries was the landlord. [3] The pub became popular as a day trip for cockneys. The building underwent a major reconstruction in 1924, when owned by the Ind Coope brewery.
The Eagle and Child, nicknamed "the Bird and Baby", [1] is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England, owned by the Ellison Institute of Technology [2] and previously operated by Mitchells & Butlers as a Nicholson's pub. [3] The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century.
The Turf Tavern is a pub in central Oxford, England.Its foundations and use as a malt house and drinking tavern date back to 1381. [citation needed] The low-beamed front bar area was put in place sometime in the 17th century. [1]