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The pub located in the City, at 145 Fleet Street has been a fixture of London life since 1538 when it may have been called the Horn Tavern.

It was built on the site of a 13th century Carmelite monastery that still provides the vaulted cellars.

On an April day in 1993, an IRA bomb ripped through the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40.

The IRA gave coded warnings in advance and most of those injured were security workers. The one fatality was a freelance photographer.

On September 1, 1666, Thomas Farriner, a biscuit maker to the Navy raked over the embers at his Pudding Lane bakers and went to bed, assured all was well.

Sometime after one o'clock in the morning on September 2 his household was woken by the smell of smoke.