The Licensed Victuallers Benevolent Institution in Asylum road, Camberwell, London is a story from the past about how insurance works correctly. It was setup before 1800, and by January, 1803, a school was established to house the young children of destitute victuallers. These children are admitted, maintained, clothed and housed in this school. The children […]
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I have no idea where to start as to which pubs are the oldest. The reason I say this is that most sites that claim to know this do not actually reference their data, including wikipaedia which appears to spout nonsense about Roman Taverns. It is therefore up the person writing the article to decide […]
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I am not quite sure what an Etsy shop is, but this is one of my friends : Stockwell costumes :
Continue ReadingA -Z of London Pub history
I list many thousands of individual pub histories on my pubwiki site, and other London history on the londonwiki site, and others too, e.g. including the original deadpubs site. But it appears that a simple blog is more popular in the search engines these days; this is often because it is much more likely to […]
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