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Ship & Shovell, 1-3 Craven Passage, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5PH
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08.05.2008
A great pub tucked away almost beneath Charing Cross station, with the added bonus of Hall & Woodhouse’s excellent real ales - try the Tanglefoot, which is really gorgeous.
The larger of the two sides has a bit more character, with a Victorian style interior of wood, etched glass and carpets, but the other side of Craven Passage is a bit more down to earth - take your pick.
The ‘Shovell’ in the title - and I notice the pub and its website can’t agree on whether it is Shovel or Shovell - is named after Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1659-1707), the celebrated and popular admiral of the British fleet and MP for Rochester, who died ignominiously on the rocks of the Isles of Scilly in fog, after a navigational error wrecked his flagship, the ‘Association’.
Legend states that he was washed ashore alive, but exhausted, and was murdered by a poor and old woman for his rings. She is said to have confessed all on her deathbed to a clergyman and returned the rings. There is a memorial to him at Porthellick, on the Scilly Isles, where his body was found.
The pub has appropriate maps, nautical charts and pictures of ships reflecting the nautical theme.
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