Ye Olde Cock Tavern

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Ye Olde Cock Tavern is a public house on London's Fleet Street.

Ye Olde Cock Tavern as seen from the opposite side of Fleet Street, May 2008.
Ye Olde Cock Tavern as seen from the opposite side of Fleet Street, May 2008.

Originally built before the 17th Century, it was rebuilt, including the interior (which is thought to include work by carver Grinling Gibbons)[1], on the other side of the road in the 1880's when a branch of the Bank of England was built where it stood[2][1]. Tragically, however, in the 1990, a fire broke out and destroyed many of the original ornaments, and has since gone through a restoration using photographs[1].

It has been frequented by Samuel Pepys, Alfred Tennyson and Charles Dickens[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Pubs.Com - Olde Cock Tavern Info (Accessed 31/03/2008)
  2. ^ All in London - Olde Cock Tavern Info (Accessed 31/03/2008)
  3. ^ Evans. J., The Book of Beer Knowledge, ISBN 1-85249-198-1


Coordinates: 51°30′49.5″N, 0°06′38″W