Tag: High Holborn

Arthur Beale

Is this the most bizarre shop in land-locked Central London? Arthur Beale sounds like a character from Eastenders but is in fact an ancient Ships Chandlers, located on…

St George’s Gardens

I have several regular lunchtime walking routes and thought that they covered most of interesting streets in the area. Turns out I was wrong. I turned a corner…

Barnard’s Inn

Barnard’s Inn was one of the Inns of Chancery where solicitors traditionally trained and practised law from chambers within the Inn building until the nineteenth century. As the…

In search of Furnival’s Inn

Ancient Inn’s abound in Holborn. I don’t mean just the drinking, stabling-your-horse-overnight type of Inns, but also the legal buildings that are part of the deep and old…

Staple Inn

l used to walk past this building on High Holborn for years and always assumed it was mock Tudor. Turns out I was wrong and on more than…