Hand and Shears

The Hand and Shears is a Grade I listed public house at 1 Middle Street, Smithfield, London.

[1] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

[1] The Hand and Shears was named after the former Bartholomew Fair, held at Smithfield for centuries, at which the Lord Mayor of London would come and cut a piece of cloth with a pair of shears to announce that the fair had begun.

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