Ye Olde Bull Tavern

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of Pall Mall with a mention of Ye Olde Bull Tavern:

The south side of the square has never been held in such esteem as the remaining three-fourths.

But the Junior Carlton Club, facing Pall Mall, has removed this stigma; it is a fine specimen of architecture.

Demolition, previous to reconstruction, has already begun next to it.

After this as far as John Street is a row of comparatively insignificant narrow houses of various heights and styles.

Some of the houses on the north side of Pall Mall were built before the completion of the square, so that there was no room for large mansions here.

At the corner of John Street and Pall Mall is what is called "Ye Olde Bull Tavern," a square box-like stuccoed house.

This is probably contemporary with the first building of Pall Mall, and may have been the substitute of the seventeenth century wits and men of letters for the magnificent clubs of the present day.

Charles Street was built about 1671, and was, of course, named after the King. Burke and Canning are numbered among the former residents.

York Street was named in compliment to the Duke of York, afterwards James II. It may be noted that the four streets surrounding the square form the names King Charles and Duke of York.

Bury Street was named after a Mr. Berry, who was landlord of many of the houses; the spelling is a corruption. Sir Richard Steele lodged here, also Thomas Moore and Crabbe, the poet, during one of his later visits to London, when contact with cultured men had rubbed off his early boorishness.

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