London Tavern

A place of business where people gathered to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, the tavern was situated in Bishopsgate in the City of London (the site today of Nos.

[2] The tavern boasted a large and well-decorated dining room with Corinthian columns.

It hosted numerous public and private meetings held to rally support to various political, charitable and other causes.

[3][4] Charles Dickens presided at several meetings, including a dinner for the benefit of the Sanatorium for Sick Authors and Artists in 1841, at the annual dinner of the General Theatrical Fund in 1851, and at the launch of the Playground and General Recreation Society in 1858.

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