Fleece, Charing Cross, St Martins in Fields WC2
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THE RUMMER TAVERN.
Rummer court, Charing Cross in 1746 -
John Rocque map
Next door to the " Ship " was the " Fleece." - [This Ship was the forbearer of the Rummer at this time].
Charles Thom, of the Fleece Eating-house in the Strand, near Northumberland House, advertises that he " is remov'd to the Fleece next Door to the Ship Tavern at Charing Cross, where all Gentlemen may depend on good Entertainment and Attendance."
If you had been a patron, in 1742, of the multifarious amusements which made Charing Cross at that time pre-eminently the great centre for London pleasure-seekers, your company would have been " humbly desir'd by Hugh Roberts, Engineer, to be Spectators of his Models, and other curious Plans, to shew the Nature of the Country in regard to Mines, and to answer what he laid down before both Houses of Parliament, at the New Theatre in James Street, near the Hay-Market, where a Lecture will be repeated to justify his Proposals for draining Mines and other Mechanical Arts of great Use. Note, Some Tickets having been delivered, and the Place therein mentioned being the Long Room at the Rummer by Charing Cross ; this is humbly to give Notice, that the Place is occasionally changed, and the said Theatre taken for that Purpose, which will begin by the 26th instant, at five o'clock in the Afternoon.
Boxes, 2s. 6d., Pit, 1s. 6d. ; Gallery, 1s.'