London, Covent Garden. Established in 1623 and first mentioned as a pub in 1772 when it was known as The Coopers Arms (the name changed to the Lamb and Flag in 1833). The pub's upstairs once hosted bare knuckle prize fights leading to it being nicknamed the "Bucket of Blood". In 1679 in the alley next to the pub satirist John Dryden (believed to be the first person to decree that a sentence in English should never end with a preposition) was attacked by men sent by Charles II in objection to a verse written against Louise de Kereauille, the king's mistress. Charles Dickens and poet Samuel Butler were known patrons. A cozy pub with small rooms in the front and back and a narrow walkway in front of the bar connecting the two. One first for me - a photo on the wall of a bass trombonist - Noel Abel, who was in the London Philharmonic and the Royal Opera House Orchestra. A Fuller's pub, Seafarers English Ale (George Gale and Co.) was my beer of choice.