Punch Tavern, Fleet Street, London - Punch, the satirical magazine, was founded in 1841 at the Edinburgh Castle Tavern on the Strand. However as the entire magazine's staff began to meet at this pub, the proprietor changed its name from the Crown and Sugar Loaf to 'The Punch Tavern'. There has been a pub on this site since the 17th century it was re-fitted in 1893-97. It was finished at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, when she drove past on her way to St Paul's.
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