A historical site about early London coffee houses and taverns and will also link to my current pub history site and also the London street directory
THE MITRE, IN Wood street,
Was a noted old Tavern. Pepys, in his Diary, September 18, 1660, records his
going " to the Mitre Tavern, in Wood street, (a house of the greatest note in
London,) where I met W. Symons, D. Scoball, and their wives. Here some of us
fell to handicap, a sport I never knew before, which was very good." The tavern
was destroyed in the Great Fire.
References :
Lots of references are made to two sources on the
internet archive
:
Edward Callows, Old London Taverns &
John Timbs, Club life of London Volume 2