A Historic London Pub Tour through Some of London's Oldest Pubs

[@paulm2467]

Cellar temperature is well below room temperature, even in summer it’s insulated by its earth surroundings so it’s a much more stable environment than above ground with consistently low temperatures that remain cool throughout the year.

[@marytyra1030]

My husband and I are going to London for my 55th birthday this August and I can't wait! Thanks for a great video.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We hope you have a great trip, Mary! Come see us :) www.freetoursbyfoot.com/london-tours

[@ivanmarsh5835]

The tour was amazing! Thank you for sharing this guys.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

This is Jessica, the guide. Thank you!

[@scrappystocks]

Gold star from me Jessica for identifying the word "Ye" as being pronounced as it should be as "The" because the "y" is really a replacement for the now non existent letter thorn "þ" that can look like a letter p and a letter b combined with its sound of "th" as in the word "the". The terminal "e" on words like olde, shoppe, wilde, oake etc. should be silent. It was never there in the earlier middle English spelling but was added by Latin scribes to words, particularly when they didn't end in a vowel, just a bit like Italian words now all tend to end in a vowel. Brilliantly interesting video with lots of background history about these pubs and a temptation for me to visit one, or two, or three ....... when I'm next in London

[@MoritzVieli]

And you, dear sir, get a gold-upvote to explain to me as a non native speaker how you pronounce those words. I was always wondering. And I was quite surprised when she pronounced it like this.

[@mickbuchanan9237]

Always good when it gets out there that Ye Olde is pronounced simply The Old, always a pet peeve of mine. Cheers.

[@aethellstan]

the replacement of the letter thorn was because of the advent of dutch typesetters and their printing presses being sold into england. they didn't include a number of (4 or 5 i think) which we then had to replace (like the letter "Æ" which provided a hard "a" sound rather than the letter "a" which provided a soft "aaa" sound.. it was agreed between publishers etc that "Y" would be used instead of thorn in books etc and this spread to signwriters etc.

[@siacjayakarta2978]

Great tour. Can't wait to visit london

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We are glad you enjoyed the video! We also hope to show you around London when you get here. You can browse our tour selection here www.freetoursbyfoot.com/london-tours/. Bookmark us :) In the meantime, check out our back catalog of virtual London tours. kzbin.infovideos.

[@markrobinson9801]

Great tour , check out Ye Olde Mitre in Hatten Garden , was used in the movie Snatch, great history to it , if you can find it 😉🍻

[@badabing8884]

One of my favourite pubs in London. So hard to find but historical.

[@74greendragon]

Thanks!

[@aethellstan]

good video but let me pick you up on a point (i apologise if somewhere in the comments below this has been said already). NO beer is served at room temperature. keg beers have finished brewing in the brewery, have been carbonated and then put into the keg. they are refrigerated and served at around 2 degrees. one other point is that any beer or cider can be either keg or cask but in practice lagers are keg. there are cask ciders but this is relatively rare. Cask beers however are NOT finished brewing. they continue to brew and ferment in the cask in the cellar and have purely natural carbonation. as a result of this cask beers are much younger and you get a fresher taste. they are kept at CELLAR room temperature which is very different from normal room temperature. it's around 8 degrees. the misnomer about british beer (and other things) all come about because of the conditions during (and after for some years) the second world war where we couldn't keep the beer as cold as we wanted. p.s. you don't pronounce the "e", so its just old, not oldey.

[@hlondon2408]

Great tour! Thank you for your work!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

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[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for your continued support of the channel, H!

[@joshuataylor3550]

Used to work around the corner from Cittie of Yorke.

[@beneditocrispim9554]

I liked so much to see this for the London pubs made by Jessica. How much historic details about the pubs origins and the London city itself.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one, Benedito!

[@mickparker3726]

Excellent content.......beer and good conversation...more please.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Mick. If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks Mick! This is Jessica - I have my own KZbin channel as well. I'd love to have you as a subscriber!

[@danandrews8102]

We always have our yearly christmas drink in the cittie of yorke

[@7arboreal]

Very interesting! Thanks.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@sharonmorris6668]

Thank you for the tour Jessica & Matt. Very interesting and informative.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one, Sharon!

[@74greendragon]

Absolutely Brilliant! Pub Tour Love, Cheers!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@dbn52]

Wonderful

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mcdaniels6188]

Miller High Life.....the champagne of beers. Well researched, and insightful. This pint is in your honour.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@levistubbs8949]

Great video, wonderful to see all those terrific pubs !

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one, Levi! :)

[@BloobleBonker]

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is my favourite of all London. Great tour, many thanks. Wish I was there drinking with you!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@markjohnathanappleton8642]

Great video well done

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@waynegross2113]

Very interesting pub tour. I'll look you up if I ever get to London, that is!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Yes, come see us!

[@Marie-Elaine]

Thank you, an excellent vlog.

[@janicelindsey9557]

Nicely done. Very interesting. 🇺🇸

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for the continued support, Janice!

[@cwhite5015]

Fantastic!! History and beer…I love this!! 🍺

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@dthomas5059]

This is a great tour, Thank You. I happened to stop in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese quite by accident while in London in March. Fantastic experience. Thanks for this one and the food tour too!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you enjoyed this one, D!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thanks D! This is Jessica - I have my own KZbin channel as well - I'm The Museum Guide. I'd love to have you as a subscriber!

[@elainebezuidenhout162]

Great video thank you😀

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@geoffreyk9164]

All good historic pubs, but you also have to go to The Lamb and Flag, Ye Olde Mitre, The Hoop and Grapes (not as impressive looking due to it being so thoroughly remodeled though), The Prospect of Whitby (and while you’re in Wapping you can also go to the Town of Ramsgate and The Captain Kidd, which aren’t as old, but still worth a look if you like riverside pubs), across the Thames from there just one stop on the overground you have The Mayflower, and a bit further out of the city core The Spaniard is worth a visit if you’re interested in old pubs. I would also add The Lamb if you’re near Russell Square or at the British Museum- not as old as the others, but still historically relevant, as it has some of the only remaining original and certainly best preserved snob shades.

[@mickbuchanan9237]

Here speaks a man after my own heart. Cheers.

[@tippysdaddy7468]

Great tour guys, thank you.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one!

[@alandyer910]

Great tour! Thank you from Canada! 🇨🇦

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Alan! If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@lokischildren8714]

A fantastic interesting video

[@SalsaShakers]

Awesome video guys! Loved the history of these pubs. Thank you so much. 🍺 🍺 🍺 🍺 BTW. Your hubby speaks like David Beckham!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@charlottecowley6700]

Great video. Thanks so much!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked it, Charlotte :)

[@mariaboletsis3188]

Great job! Thank you so much, glad to see the husband could join and assist with the tour. Would LOVE to visit the UK some day!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We hope you make it over here, Maria!

[@nathaliebeneteau2590]

Love Love Love! Well done. Can't wait to get to London!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Come see us, Nathalie!

[@nathaliebeneteau2590]

@@ToursbyFootLondon we are. Quick question. How far ahead do we need to book?

[@badabing8884]

Further down from the Cittie of York Pub is one of my favourite pubs in London - Ye Old Mitre (a Fuller’s pub). It’s down an alleyway in Hatton Gardens. Supposedly the pub is from the 16th Century and QE1 danced around the May pole?! Only opened Monday to Friday though.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We love that one! Thanks for sharing.

[@alanjjeff]

excellent vid well informed

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@foxywolf1777]

Such a fascinating experience and history 🐾🦊🐺

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@denniscrane1708]

Excellent video, will be visiting the pubs. Thanks

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@lindatyler7056]

Really interesting tour will be sure to visit one or maybe all of those pubs on my next trip to London thanks 😊

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Linda! If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@michellebruce5092]

Great video I enjoyed it can't wait to see more soon. Hope to see more of your videos. Your videos are always enjoyable and relaxing have a great day 😀

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! This is Jessica- I have a new KZbin channel called The Museum Guide if you'd like to see more!

[@johnwaterhouse3752]

Great video, I visited London October 22 with my wife and another couple. We had a drink ( or two ) in Dirty Dicks and also Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, both fantastic atmospheric pubs. Thanks for this wonderful vlog.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, John! And the pub ;) If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@michaelwhite8031]

London use to be a great place for pubs when l was younger. In the 1980''s so many traditional pubs with wooden panelled walls and little stairways existed, that was before they pulled all the wood out and replaced it with tubular steel and glass. I fear many more pubs will disappear with the energy crisis. Great video, thanks.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one, Michael!

[@michaelwhite8031]

It was very entertaining, thank you !

[@-ZigZag-13]

Beer, pubs and history of London is perfect topic! Waiting new videos!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one! :)

[@liamkatt6434]

Love your Canadian pronouncing of 'stout' ! Cute. Years back, Dublin received a lot of people from Bristol, England and with them came the recipe for stout which Arthur Guinness, an ale brewer, jumped on and the rest is history. I am very pleased to say that I live in Vancouver Island, these days and love Canada and Canadians.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for the extra info, Liam! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@thfccfht]

good effort, I know fleet street very well, some good battle cruisers down there..Happy Daze.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad you liked this one :)

[@leonorarobins3426]

Loved this tour!!! Thanks♥️♥️

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Pleased you liked this one, Leonora!

[@Glittercrazy]

I just love your joggers where did your get them? and I can't wait to go to these pubs when we visit this summer!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We messaged Jess to find out for you - Athleta in Canada :)

[@phosawelonewolf2886]

Enjoyed very much. Let’s have another round 😬

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@leilaodelbrink77]

Great tour. I have been to london a few times and i always find it funny how almost every pub claims to be the oldest one.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Hah! Thanks for watching, Leila.

[@lizoxley546]

Fab tour!

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Liz! If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@barbarapatino5458]

Everyone's commenting on how good the tour is so I don't need to do that again (obviously I agree). Instead, I would like to say how cool of a couple you are!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awww, thanks Barbara! I thought only my mum thought that way. ;)

[@chriswhite1417]

Meantime based in Greenwich is worth a look

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Good shout, Chris!

[@leahmorris343]

The Samuel Smith brewery, Tadcaster is not in York it is in North Yorkshire. Tadcaster is half way between York and Leeds.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for the extra info, Leah!

[@christostiger5425]

Thanks for the awesome video! OMG I want a pint of Sam Smiths stout so badly :)

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Come see us and we'll get one!

[@johnwoodgate8125]

FYI. The basic difference between these two major beer classifications is how they are fermented. Ales are fermented with top-fermenting yeast at warm temperatures (60˚-70˚F), and lagers are fermented with bottom-fermenting yeast at cold temperatures (35˚-50˚F). Because of their warm fermentations, ales can generally ferment and age in a relatively short period of time (3-5 weeks). On the other hand, lagers take much longer to ferment (up to 6 to 8 weeks) because they are cold fermented.😊

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for the extra info, John!

[@stephenmcdonald664]

Cheers from Ontario, Canada. We're in London in January 2025 for 4 days and we're hoping to go on pub tour of the oldest pubs. Any suggestions on what tours are the best?

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We run this one - currently one day a week but hoping to increase this year - that you might enjoy: freetoursbyfoot.com/the-city-of-london-historic-pub-tour/

[@backgammonbacon]

Cittie of York isn't in the banking district its in the legal district. Its literally part of Gray's Inn Chambers and full of Barristers.

[@lisad476]

Cool

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Lisa! If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours kzbin.infovideos. There is more where this came from.

[@ianbowden4587]

Very enjoyable and interesting points about these pubs and of beer from a female perspective. Would love to watch a vid by you both of a few INDEPENDANT London back street boozers that all sell ales.....Preferably Fosters free boozers. ;-]. Cheers.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Consider it on the list!

[@janewebster8014]

Has a Free Walking Tour of Bath been posted yet?

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Not yet but it is on the list!

[@gosccc]

You seem to be saying Soate instead of Stout

[@Tidybitz]

The city of London (also called 'The square mile') has it's own police force, the smallest in the UK.

[@TheWonderingEnglishman]

Many pubs serve cask beer from wooden casks. Not just the Sam Smiths pub

[@pumpkinpatch5]

10:34 He was right in his time, but not so much now. I was born in London and it's turned into a real hole. Sadly.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Some of us still love it! ;)

[@ramthian]

❤❤

[@garycarpenter6433]

I'm not really a beer drinker I prefer a mixed drink or vodka or wine 🍷 I really do like what is the difference between stote,Ale beer 🍺 and mead.... Doesn't The Old Bell have a couple of ghosts 👻 if I remember

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Indeed, it does!

[@toobatooba5334]

❤❤❤💕

[@wernerelble5415]

Hops coming from Dutch? I think from Germany/ Bavaria.

[@theoisaac9948]

👍👍🍺

[@JohnS1704]

Tadcaster is in Yorkshire - not York.

[@jackflackers8326]

Nicholsons is not a brewery. They do not brew at all.

[@garethlorman1136]

I've been utterly ripped off in all of these pubs😂

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Hah!

[@srikanthmeg]

I thought she looked completely smitten by that dude when she is talking to him and then I saw in her description that he is her husband

[@davidhull3652]

Don’t get your phone out 😂

[@markjohnathanappleton8642]

Samuel Smith brewery is the best independent brewery in the UK, don't know how to manage to film in Samuel Smith pub due to the fact your not be allowed to use any mobile phones or any digital media

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I asked permission in both pubs and they were more than happy to be on camera and allow us to film. :)

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

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[@jez6208]

Brewdog beer is swill.

[@michaelwhite8031]

The city of London has connections of strange magic even to this day. It is a separate country in its own right. Its connection to freemasonry is overwhelming.

[@johnp8131]

"Room temperature"? No, no, no! Cellar temperature, which should be cool at around 52 Degrees Fahrenheit, or about 11 Degrees in Catholic so you can taste the ale. Lagers, especially bad ones are served ice cold so you can't taste how bad they really are!

[@alansmith3327]

Excellent video and knowledgeable. Except that "Real Ale " now called craft beer to please the Americans. Did not start 10 years or so ago , it started with the advent of "CAMRA" The campaign for real ale way in I believe the 70,s . This was to break the monopoly of the Big brewer's and encourage small enterprise such as "Butcombe Bitter" and "Wadsworth 6X".

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Thanks for the extra info, Alan :)

[@arriesone1]

Matt stays sober while Jess is definitely “tiddly” !

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

No comment ;)

[@joycefroney6162]

Tours are very good, thank you. If your good looking hubby would style his beard backup to the chin he would knock off20 years.

[@alanjjeff]

really who cares

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Aww, I love his long beard!

[@alanjjeff]

@@TheMuseumGuide allows him to save beer for later

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@alanjjeff It sure does! 🤣

[@andrewberry8701]

Brewdog sucks. Avoid. Especially in London when there are much better places to give your money to.

[@kevinclick9026]

Ey Up

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Oi oi

[@SteveDonaldson-r5k]

Pubs are great aren't they? Bugger online dating, you go to the pub and meet your partner.

[@hoytoy100]

So many pubs now look corporate, have the same beer and food. Making pubs into Starbucks.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Sad but true :(

[@patthewoodboy]

Brew Dog has become shite

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

A few in the comments would agree with you!

[@johncarlisle6865]

one of the reasons Charles Dickens visited so many pubs is because he liked his Booze

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

We can relate!

[@BeeRich33]

Your (first) real ale pint seems tiny. And for 4.80, it could be. Tipperary is now permanently closed. Boooo. Wheat beers have SOME wheat.

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

RIP Tipperary :( Lots of closures on Fleet Street recently.

[@robhoward4707]

You cannot talk about great beer and then go to a Sam Smiths pub. 😂

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Sam Smiths is more for the ambiance ;)

[@j.a.0088]

London pub beer 🍺 😮 is RIPOFF

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

It's certainly not cheap these days..!

[@dmdm327]

British 🇬🇧 Living in pubs 😂😂😂alcoholics

[@Essiesl]

useless, what a lack of beer knowledge..

[@ToursbyFootLondon]

Worth the risk?!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

What’s your specific complaint about the knowledge presented here? We’re not cicerones, but we know a lot about beer.

[@sharonmorris6668]

Thanks!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you Sharon! This is Jessica - I have my own KZbin channel as well - I'm The Museum Guide. I'd love to have you as a subscriber!