Product Description

London is a great city for walking and what better way to view its history and its inns than on a pub walk. Each has a historical theme - from Fleet Street with its journalists' pubs to the Victorian masters and servants of the great houses of Belgravia. With a map to guide readers, each walk features between 6 and 12 classic pubs, a number of stop-off sites of historic interest along the way and details on all the establishments featured (opening hours, food and beer selections). The walks, which can be done either in whole or part, take in both the grand highways and secret byways of some of London's most fascinating haunts: Chelsea, Kensington, Belgravia, Bayswater, Oxford Street, Soho, Holborn, Bloomsbury, The Strand, Fleet Street, The City, Smithfields, Clerkenwell, Southwark, Lambeth, Greenwich and Hampstead.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341244 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"The first work to describe London's historic pubs in any detail... illustrated with gem-like colour photographs." The Guardian; "A wonderful book, the finest yet on London's unique drinking places." Roger Protz, What's Brewing"

Roger Protz, What's Brewing
A wonderful book, the finest yet on London's unique drinking places.

About the Author
Award-winning beer writer Ted Bruning is the editor of CAMRA's newspaper What's Brewing and most recently the author of Historic Pubs of London and Historic Inns of England, which won the British Beer Writers' Guild Silver Tankard in 2000.

Customer Reviews

A welcome addition to the London guidebooks
Ted Bruning's book gives us 15 history lessons about various areas of London, and 15 excellent reasons to have a few pints in recommended pubs.
The walks include Hampstead, Chelsea, Soho, Greenwich and the City, and every walk includes between 6 and 12 pubs worth a visit.
Particularly welcome for many tourists is the inclusion of a Bayswater walk, there are some jewels hidden away just a few yards from the main streets.
The book features many of the pubs in the authors "Historic Pubs of London", but it does not duplicate the text, so get both books!

Dated and corny
Might have been OK when it came out but nowhere near as good as Bob Steel's more recent CAMRA guide. Poor maps, a lot of very iffy pubs, and frankly I didnt like the corny titles to the chapters.