The Mercers' Arms, 2016

The Mercers' Arms was a pub at 17 Mercer Street, in London's Covent Garden, at the corner with Shelton Street. It closed as a pub in about 1973, and is now a private dining club.[1][2]

The earliest recorded landlord is a Robert Abraham in 1792,[1] and the 1797 insurance document for the then landlord, Alexander Ogston, is held in the National Archives.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mercers Arms, 17 Mercer Street, Long Acre WC2". Pubshistory.com. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mercer Arms, Covent Garden". Closedpubs.co.uk. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Insured: Alexander Ogston, the Mercers Arms Mercer Street Long Acre, victualler | The National Archives". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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