London Day 12 - Saturday July 26, 2014

Yesterday we went on a very interesting "Jack the Ripper Tour," which was very interesting as Whitechapel at the time of the murders in 1888 was much like the lower east side of New York around the same time...filled with Jewish and other immigrants. I took only a few pictures and they're really not worth posting so I'll move on to today... 

This afternoon Jill, Lindsay, and I went on a "Literary Pub Crawl" of the Fitzrovia and Soho areas. Here are a few pictures...

We started at the Fitzroy Tavern where Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, and a few others used to hang out:

Then it was off to the Duke of York, where Anthony Burgess drank. The guide told us the owner of the pub in the '40s had a great bloodhound named Colonel who appeared in the Basil Rathbone version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles":

I liked the slogan on the Titanic Ale tap:

Next stop was the Newman Arms, which was George Orwell's watering hole. A former brothel, someone has put a painting of a woman in the top center window:

T.S. Eliot frequented the Marquis of Granby:

And our last pub stop was at the Wheat Sheaf, where Dylan Thomas met his future wife Caitlin:

We then wound up in Soho, London's film district, and walked by Paul McCartney's office. MPL stands for McCartney, Paul & Linda: