Wednesday 29 February 2012

The Falcon I

At the crossroads of Bridge, Lower Bridge, Pepper and Grosvenor Streets stands the Falcon. Now a pub, it had an early medieval hall, and a later larger hall. The row at the front of it started a fashion for enclosure when it was the town house of Sir Richard Grosvenor during the Civil War. The City Council dare not refuse such a rich and powerful Royalist when he complained that the house was 'too little to receive his family'.



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