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Boar's Head Tavern

On the south side of Great Eastcheap and near St Michael's Lane was the Boar's Head Tavern, celebrated in Shakespeare's Henry IV. The medieval tavern was destroyed in the Great Fire and a new one erected, but this too had vanished by the late Regency period and two houses erected on its site. The original sign hung in front of one of the houses.

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