This week's Pub/History tour will cover the area of Bloomsbury within the vicinity of the British Museum. We shall be discussing a great many interesting and macabre subjects. On these tours, we hope to show you places and things you can take away with you to share with your own customers, friends, partners, and family. Our tours delve into the places regular tours may miss and touch upon more subjects than most. Also, you're in the hands of someone who is no fan of modernism. So, if you're also tired of seeing our gems disappear, know that you're being led around by someone with a similar mindset. We tend to stop in at least 3 pubs to break up the day and to practice what we preach. We hope to see you at the weekend, and on many tours to come.

Thank you all. 🍻🤝

Bedford Square, which was built between 1775 and 1783 (in Georgian England), is a humbling reminder of what most of London could and should look like. ⏳️

My love for london is like that of a sweetheart in the way that the whole world could turn against her, and she'd still mean the world to me.

Ice cream knife and ice cream hatchet from around 1880 to 1884.

Before having a pop at the British over the contents of the British Museum, you might want a word with those sticky fingered Frenchies.

Yoink/Bagsies

As I say on my tours, modern humans like to think that we're so far ahead of the past that we're somehow better people. But, if we lost everything tomorrow, how many could remake watches that were created in the 1700s, let alone a laptop?

I get the feeling that people would quickly feel that they've far more in common with their ancestors than they currently do now.

▪️︎ Gold pair-cased cylinder watch with perpetual calendar made by Thomas Mudge. Case made by Peter Mounier (1764)

Photo taken on one of my trips to the British Museum 📸