Product Description

This celebration of London's pubs is aimed at anyone with an interest in British history and architecture. The book features 120 of the capital's best-known drinking places, from oak-beamed, 16th-century taverns - often favoured meeting places for smugglers and villains - to the elaborate gin palaces of the Victorian age, each demonstrating London's rich cultural heritage from a new and dynamic perspective. Each entry offers a history of the pub's architectural evolution, its changing role through the centuries and its famous (and infamous) patrons. There is also practical information on location, opening hours, and food and drink selections.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #416551 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Buy it - you won't regret it
This is so much more than just a guidebook, so much more than just a history book. The author clearly loves his work and works at his love. His text takes you almost literally inside each one of these disctinctive and highly individual drinking houses. You can taste the hops, smell the barley, hear the chat and visualise all the quirky old characters lurking in the corner as you travel with Haydon on an odyssey through the pubs that make London's heart beat. Buy it, read it, then get out there and live it!

A Great Guide
I found this like the book, "Last Orders:" Life as a Pub Landlord by Chris Pitts, gives an intriguing and hilarious insight into the centre of the British Universe; the great British Pub! Buy them both, you won't regret it!