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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
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The Fleet Street chophouse of 1667 that Johnson, Dickens, Twain and Conan Doyle all drank in.
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Rebuilt straight after the Great Fire, with a warren of dark rooms and cellars going down to a thirteenth-century crypt, sawdust on the floors, and a chair by the fire that Dr Johnson is supposed to have sat in, since he lived round the corner. Dickens is on firmer ground: he was a regular, and the Fleet Street tavern of A Tale of Two Cities is generally taken to be this one. Yeats's Rhymers' Club met upstairs in the 1890s; Twain, Conan Doyle, Chesterton and Wodehouse came; and a parrot called Polly, who lived in the bar for forty years, had her death announced on the BBC in 1926.
| Monday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
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| Tuesday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 – 22:30 |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.