This pub crawl covers two adjacent areas on the western edge of the City of London, each with a long, varied, interesting and at times bloody history. Starting at an old market porters’ pub, then passing through a Victorian meat market to one of Fuller’s bank conversions, this pub crawl then crosses Smithfield to a popular little pub with an irreverent  religious theme, and then passes London’s oldest hospital to a haunted pub opposite the Old Bailey, a metonym for Britain’s most famous criminal court, built on the site of one of London’s most notorious gaols. It then crosses one of the great feats of Victorian civil engineering to an old and historic pub on a church estate, and finishes at a splendid ale and pie shop.