The Bear Inn, Oxford
Low-ceilinged seventeenth-century tavern lined with thousands of snipped tie ends in glass cases.
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This guide to the Bear Inn in Oxford starts with the sign over its low door and the claim it makes about age. It follows a medieval coaching inn on the corner of the High Street, the stablemen who kept its horses, and a tavern called the Jolly Trooper. Then it turns to the glass cases on the walls and a nineteen-fifties landlord with a pair of scissors. Best heard on Alfred Street, looking at the front of the pub.
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