Stop here for a nod to the Empire's end. Loaded with Churchill memorabilia, the pub hosts a week of celebration leading up to Churchill's birthday on November 30. Show up at the right time and you may be recruited to help decorate the place -- visitors are often welcomed like regulars. Decorations and festivities are featured for Halloween, Christmas, and St. Paddy's Day, as well as for Churchill's birthday, helping to create the homiest village pub atmosphere you're likely to find in London.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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