After spending most of the day at the nearby Ashmolean Museum, I stopped for early Fish 'n Chips at the historic pub, The Eagle and Child.
I'm in the corner by the fireplace. On the wall above are plaques and photos referring to the Inkling's Club, which links two famous friends, C S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and other friends who met on Tuesday mornings to discuss their writings.
The Fish 'n Chips were good. At the time, it was a Nicholson's Pub owned by St John's College.
The pub dates to the 1600s and may have been there when Oxford was the Royalist capital during the Civil War.
It was a meeting in June 1950 when C. S. Lewis handed out proofs for his most famous work, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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Google Map Showing the location of the Eagle and Child Pub
49 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
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