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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Famous Fleet street pub dating from the sixteenth century, haunt of a gamut of literary types including Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens and the imaginary Hercule Poirot
Festoons and swags on Pall Mall
A potted history of the RAC club on Pall Mall. Housed in very grand buildings near to Buckingham Palace that were once used as the War Office, the RAC offers members an Edwardian marble swimming pool, Turkish baths, squash courts and chandeliered drawing rooms.
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St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell and the London Palimpsest
Peel back the centuries on a walk down St John’s Lane exploring the industrial, literary and religious histories of this street.
Crossbones Churchyard
Up to 15,000 sex workers and their kin are buried here at Crossbones Churchyard in Lambeth, unhallowed ground since sex workers were designated unrepentant sinners by the Church.