UPCOMING Pub/History Christmas #Tour 🎄🎅🍻
(The last tour of the year)
pubandhistorywalkingtours.com
Shoreditch
🗓 20th December (SATURDAY)
👥 Liverpool Street Station (Hamilton Hall - JD Wetherspoon Pub)
🕦 11 AM
Please note that there may not be any tours over January, so this might be your last chance to attend until February.
The tour will last roughly between 3-1/2 to 4 hours (or more) and will include several pubs that will both visit and pass. We will be visiting some of #London's most famous and impressive pubs whilst venturing into various historical epochs. If you need to leave early, then please let me know at the time, and I'll direct you.
Prices: £20 per person (for over 18s),
16-18: £10
Under 16s: Free (If accompanied by a paying adult)
(The last tour of the year)
pubandhistorywalkingtours.com
Shoreditch
🗓 20th December (SATURDAY)
👥 Liverpool Street Station (Hamilton Hall - JD Wetherspoon Pub)
🕦 11 AM
Please note that there may not be any tours over January, so this might be your last chance to attend until February.
The tour will last roughly between 3-1/2 to 4 hours (or more) and will include several pubs that will both visit and pass. We will be visiting some of #London's most famous and impressive pubs whilst venturing into various historical epochs. If you need to leave early, then please let me know at the time, and I'll direct you.
Prices: £20 per person (for over 18s),
16-18: £10
Under 16s: Free (If accompanied by a paying adult)
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"There's some come here to see me hang,
And some to buy my fiddle,
But before that I do part with her,
I'll break her through the middle.
Sae rantonly, sae wantonly,
Sae dauntingly played he.
He played a tune and he danced a-roon,
Below the gallows tree."
https://youtu.be/PuQX7z2gERc?si=NcVKldYptY568kqU
And some to buy my fiddle,
But before that I do part with her,
I'll break her through the middle.
Sae rantonly, sae wantonly,
Sae dauntingly played he.
He played a tune and he danced a-roon,
Below the gallows tree."
https://youtu.be/PuQX7z2gERc?si=NcVKldYptY568kqU
YouTube
McPherson's Farewell sung by Hamish Imlach
The execution of a fiddler must have been a sufficiently rare occurrence to merit a song celebrating his understandable act of spite. James Macpherson and his Highland followers terrorised the market towns of Banff, Elgin and Forres in 1700. To ensure they…
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I have no issue with those who've got their mental health and life in order having an early pint now and then. But I will always resent the sight of men drinking out of tins and bottles in public spaces. (Festivals and events excluded).
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Forwarded from Western Heritage
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Just imagine how special this time of year must have felt in 1960s England. ⏳️🎄
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