Private Freddie Mercury & Queen Walking Tour
Duration of walk: 3 hours
Price: £120 in total
Meeting point outside Daquise Restaurant, 20 Thurloe Street, London SW7 2LT. Nearest Tube,
South Kensington
The City to City Pub Walk. From the City of London to the City of Westminster
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|Blackfriars train and tube station.
n this walk we will see 2000 years of history and visit some of London’s most amazing pubs.
Time & Location
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Blackfriars train and tube station., Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4DY, UK
About the event
In this walk we will see 2000 years of history and visit some of London’s most amazing pubs.
We start at the uniquely shaped Black Friar pub. We will hear stories about the river Fleet, that still flows under out feet. It was on this site that representatives of the court of Henry VIII negotiated with the Charles V, the Papal Magistrate, the dissolution of the Kings marriage to Catherine of Aragon in 1532. We will then walk into Fleet Street, once the heart of the British newspaper industry. We will visit St Bride’s the journalist’s church. We will sample the gloomy charm of Ye Old Cheshire Cheese. This was one of Charles Dickens favourite watering holes.
We will later find ourselves in the hidden Middle and Inner Temple. We will then cross Temple Bar. We will visit London’s oldest Irish pub where apparently the first pint of Guinness was…