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  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Cheshire Cheese

(London EC4)
A pub of great antiquity, just off Fleet Street, with many writers and artists among its past patrons. Even Samuel *Johnson is claimed to have been of their number, though hard evidence is lacking. A more certain regular was a parrot at the time of World War I. On Armistice night it repeated some 400 times its trick of imitating the pop of a champagne cork, before collapsing from temporary exhaustion.
 








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