The Lamb is aGrade II listedpub at 94Lamb's Conduit Street, in theLondon Borough of Camden, London.[1]
The Lamb was built in the 1720s and the pub and the street were named afterWilliam Lamb, who repaired theHolborn Conduit, later renamedLamb's Conduit in his honour, a few metres to the south, in 1577. The Lamb was refurbished in theVictorian era and is one of the few remaining pubs with 'snob screens' which allowed the well-to-do drinker not to see the bar staff, and vice versa.[2]
Charles Dickens lived locally and is reputed to have frequented The Lamb. Other writers associated with the pub includeTed Hughes andSylvia Plath. Hughes, who was a regular at the pub, arranged to meet Plath there in the early days of their relationship.[3]
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