Here at scanning HQ we love an old inn! And this one, the Old Blue Boar at High Holborn, London brings that passion to provocative life. Shown on a scarce London map of 1682, it lay between High Holborn & Eagle street to the north. It gained the ‘old’ appurtenance by the mid-1700s, described as ‘one of London’s oldest houses’, additionally serving as a masonic lodge. It gained greater notoriety as the venue of choice for Newgate prisoners to have a last drink on their way to the gallows at Tyburn. The present image dates to c.1845. Just 20 years later, the Inns of Court hotel, part of the Lincoln’s Inn Fields development to the south, swept aside this fabulous institution so that today nothing remains. ‘Progress’ often leaves us deprived. *License this image for full commercial use for just £10 per project #history #authors #scanned #creatives #art #drawings #architecture #people #londonlife #places #lostpubsoflondon