The pub was built on the side of a monastery which dated to 1300 where, amongst other duties, the monks brewed ale. This site was an island between the River Thames and River Fleet which still runs under the pub that is now little more than a stre…
On this site
lived
two famous
clockmakers
Thomas Tompion
F · R · S ·
"The Father
of English Clockmaking"
1638-1713
and
George Graham
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1673-1751
Both buried in
Westminster Abbey