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The Old Bell with Ann Laffeaty

Season 2, Ep. 2

Join us at the Old Bell in Fleet Street, built by Christopher Wren for the stonemasons working on St Bride’s Church, where we talk pub history and more with pub historian Ann Laffeaty

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