A list of all its famous patrons hangs on the wall. The composer of Rule Britannia lived on the upper floor and Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and Richard Burton were notorious drinkers who once sat on the bar stools. THE DOVE: The 400-year-old Dove in Hammersmith, reached down a cobbled alley, also had some illustrious patrons. The flag-stoned interior is crammed with nautical artefacts and barrels sit at the pewter-topped bar and you may well feel like yo-ho-ho-ing for a bottle of rum. This pub started life in 1543 as The Devil's Tavern and became notorious as a smugglers' haven that relied on river transportation. Visit The Prospect of Whitby and you can sit on a terrace with a view over the Thames. Many were located along roads and other trade routes. Lockdown 2020 has meant that EPOC has had to postpone performances at the Royal Albert Hall, a whole school performance of The History of Music (in 60 mins) and community performances of Bizet’s Carmen in Bosnia and Herzegovina.THE PROSPECT OF WHITBY: In the Middle Ages, English pubs were both venues for socialising and inns where travellers could change their horses and find accommodation. EPOC aims to demonstrate the significant benefits that music can bring and its power to transform lives and communities.
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The company exists to inspire creativity and build confidence and social skills through music to people to realise their full potential. English Pocket Opera Company EPOC performing a ‘Ring Round the World’ workshop in a Camden school.Įnglish Pocket Opera Company (EPOC) is based in a Camden primary school in London and works with up to 50,000 children per year, producing musically-driven, multi-disciplinary programmes in partnership with a range of social, artistic and educational organisations. Since being back in Cambridge after some years away, she founded an all-female renaissance choir, St Radegund’s Voices, and plays cello (very badly) in and sometimes conducts (a bit better) the Cambridge Community Orchestra. Katie is a keen choral singer and conductor and has run and conducted a number of choirs in Cambridge and the South-East. She is also a musicologist, and has written lots of stuff about the music of Handel. Katie Hawks is a medieval historian studying monasteries, which were famous for hospitality and ale. From 1960-72 the yard provided meeting rooms for the Cambridge Footlights and the likes of Peter Cook, Clive Anderson, Germaine Greer, Clive James, Tim Brooke-Taylor, several ‘Pythons’ and Stephen Fry (to name only a few).ĭobrodošli, Welkom, Tervetuloa, herzlich willkommen, fáilte, gaidīts, Witamy, добро пожаловать, Bienvenido, croeso, স্বাগত, 欢迎, स्वागत हे, ようこそ, 환영 Hoşgeldiniz, soo dhaweyn, karibu, wamukelekile. The writers Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) and Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) first met at a party in Falcon Yard. For over 400 years it was one of the great meeting places in Cambridge.
The Falcon was the largest of the Cambridge’s many medieval galleried inns and was built around 1500. Our cover photo shows the Falcon Inn, Petty Cury located in the city where we are based – Cambridge. Please don’t forget to sign our Visitors Book.
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Anyone can stay at the Welcome Inn – it’s free – all we ask is that you contribute a ‘traveler’s token’ for the enjoyment of your fellow travelers to our Inn – a story, a piece of music or art, or a recipe.
Have a look around and enjoy the many contributions from fellow travelers. Your hosts, Jenny and Mark, would like to invite you to rest a while here and put your feet up.
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