A Slice of London Pub Heritage

My trips to London often involve racing past the centre to get to a suburban Wetherspoon's or a Bexleyheath local that serves me Doom Bar and lasts one year in the Good Beer Guide.So it made a nice change recently to stick around the Fleet Street area on a sunny day and visit some classics.The next two posts contain:➤ Pubs you've heard of! ➤ Three three-star Historic Interiors!➤ At least one treacherous staircase.➤ Beer prices to bring me out in a cold sweat.As we'd made our own ways to London by train and bus, I met Oxford CAMRA Chairman John in Chancery Lane for a spot of breakfast, before we made our way to the first pub of the day. The Blackfriar (174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, London, EC4V 4EG)The Blackfriar was built in 1875 on the site of an ancient Dominican friary. It was remodelled around 1905 by architect Herbert Fuller-Clark who went to town with Arts and Craft and Art Nouveau styles within. He employed sculptors to work with marble, wood and copper throughout the…