07/10/2026
Happy spooky season everyone 👻
Here’s why there’s a barber’s chair in our snug at the Old Bank of England, on Fleet Street.
It’s the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Sweeney Todd. The legend began in a 1846 ‘penny dreadful’ called ‘The String of Pearls’ - a barber with a razor, a baker in the room below, a story that has travelled from Victorian theatre to a famous 1979 musical and a 2003 film. (The pie part, you’ll know.)
Pull up a chair, if you dare 😳🍻