Mercers Arms, Covent Garden

The Mercers' Arms was a pub at 17 Mercer Street, in London's Covent Garden, at the corner with Shelton Street. It closed as a pub in about 1973, and is now a private dining club.[1][2]

The Mercers' Arms, 2016

The earliest recorded landlord is a Robert Abraham in 1792,[1] and the 1797 insurance document for the then landlord, Alexander Ogston, is held in the National Archives.[3]

References

1. "Mercers Arms, 17 Mercer Street, Long Acre WC2". Pubshistory.com. 2016-07-21. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
2. "Mercer Arms, Covent Garden". Closedpubs.co.uk. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
3. "Insured: Alexander Ogston, the Mercers Arms Mercer Street Long Acre, victualler | The National Archives". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-27.