Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

But, I mean, there's so many places that we wanted to visit.

One of the places that I wanted to go to is another pub called the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.

And you've got to be careful because there are two of them.

There's the Cheshire Cheese and then there's the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.

So the latter one is a very old place.

It was rebuilt in 1667 following the Great Fire of London.

So they're just kind of capitalising on the legacy because he did live right nearby and there's even a statue to his cat, Hodge.

I had a cat named Hodge after his Hodge.

After leaving the Griffin, the site of Old Temple Bar, walking some distance east on the left-hand side of Fleet Street and peering up or down a number of narrow courts with such seductive names as Johnson's Court, which by the way has no reference whatever to our Johnson, and Bolt Court, one comes upon Wine Office Court.

Turning up or down, one passes on the right, after a few steps, the old Cheshire Cheese.

The legend which associates this tavern with the great lexicographer is a triumph of advertising, for there is no single contemporary reference connecting Johnson with it.

It is, however, quite possible that he may have frequented it, as it was on his side of Fleet Street, which, as an old man, he disliked to cross.

I am glad he thanks God for anything.

Gentlemen, shall we make it a holiday? You are excused until next Monday.

At the Cheshire Cheese nearby in Fleet Street, there is beefsteak and kidney pie, and a mug of Mr. Thrale's ale.

Giving Mr. McBean a coin.

After leaving the Griffin, the site of Old Temple Bar, walking some distance east on the left-hand side of Fleet Street and peering up or down a number of narrow courts with such seductive names as Johnson's Court, which by the way has no reference whatever to our Johnson, and Bolt Court, one comes upon Wine Office Court.

Turning up or down, one passes on the right, after a few steps, the Old Cheshire Cheese.

The legend which associates this tavern with the great lexicographer is a triumph of advertising, for there is no single contemporary reference connecting Johnson with it.

It is, however, quite possible that he may have frequented it, as it was on his side of Fleet Street, which as an old man he disliked to cross.

We're headed towards that red dot there.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a pub.

It's a historic pub.

There's been a pub there since the 1500s.