Britain gallery: The Jerusalem Tavern

On one of our last weekends in London before moving to Suffolk, some friends took us

on a pub-crawl to some favourite (or, in this case, not such a favourite) pubs in and

around the City. Starting at the wonderful 'Black Friar', just over Farringdon Bridge, for a

pint of London Pride, there followed, in increasingly hazy recollection, Ye Olde Mitre off

Hatton Garden, the famous 'Cheshire Cheese' off Fleet Street, the 'Cittie of Yorke' on

Fleet St itself (since 1430) and a couple of others I've since forgotten. We ended up in

The Jerusalem Tavern in Farringdon. But because it was packed, I've had to have

several others visits in order to create the composite picture you see here of the front

parlour, this despite not being particularly fond of the St Peter's ale that is sold here to

the exclusion of all others.

At the end of a very long day, I was somewhat surprised to discover that I hadn't left

my camera somewhere (bit of a habit, that), but ultimately this was the only picture

from the day that I liked, apart from one of the beautiful Art Nouveau interior of the

Black Friar. But if you want to see that, I respectfully suggest you go there yourself - it's

well worth the effort.

On one of our last weekends in London before moving to Suffolk, some friends took us on a

pub-crawl to some favourite (or, in this case, not such a favourite) pubs in and around the City.

Starting at the wonderful 'Black Friar', just over Farringdon Bridge, for a pint of London Pride,

there followed, in increasingly hazy recollection, Ye Olde Mitre off Hatton Garden, the famous

'Cheshire Cheese' off Fleet Street, the 'Cittie of Yorke' on Fleet St itself (since 1430) and a couple

of others I've since forgotten. We ended up in The Jerusalem Tavern in Farringdon. But because

it was packed, I've had to have several others visits in order to create the composite picture you

see here of the front parlour, this despite not being particularly fond of the St Peter's ale that is

sold here to the exclusion of all others.

At the end of a very long day, I was somewhat surprised to discover that I hadn't left my

camera somewhere (bit of a habit, that), but ultimately this was the only picture from the day

that I liked, apart from one of the beautiful Art Nouveau interior of the Black Friar. But if you want

to see that, I respectfully suggest you go there yourself - it's well worth the effort.