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- ... that the Grade I-listed George Inn, Southwark (pictured), is London's only remaining coaching inn, and appears on a map dating to 1543?
- ... that the Spaniards Inn on Hampstead Heath appears in Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers and Barnaby Rudge, and in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
- ... that the London Beer Flood of 1814 claimed 9 lives after a large vat of the drink burst at Meux's Brewery on Tottenham Court Road?
- ... that the vaulted cellars of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese are thought to belong to a thirteenth-century Carmelite monastery which once stood on the site?
- ... that the Fortune of War at Smithfield stood at the place where the Great Fire of London is said to have stopped, and was a popular haunt for body-snatchers?