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Two small dark rooms in an alley off Garrick Street, in one of the last timber-framed buildings in central London.
Historic interior
Also in Literary London.
The frame is early eighteenth century and possibly 1688, which makes this one of very few timber buildings left in the middle of London, though most of what you see is Georgian and the frontage was rebuilt in 1958. Inside are two low, dark rooms with panelling, bare boards and a fire at the back, and brass plaques marking where particular regulars used to stand.
It was once the Bucket of Blood, for the bare-knuckle fights held in it. Dryden was set on by hired men in Lazenby Court alongside in 1679 and the upstairs room is named for him, with Latin on the beams about it. Dickens drank here while working in Catherine Street. The cast of Oliver! used it in the early sixties, and Barry Humphries met Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in it.
Upstairs is table service. No music and no machines anywhere.
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