post-deluge

Updated: June 9, 2025

To describe the inn as "the first house in Southwark" might have been accurate for those callers who approached it over London Bridge, but in actual chronology the proud distinction of dating from post-deluge days has really to give place to the much more recent year of 1319.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London