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Tolkien's grandad's buried there:
https://flickeringlamps.com/2014/06/25/the-hill-of-bones-the-story-of-bunhill-fields/
proper old man pubs with real ales
There is that massive Wetherspods round the corner towards Old Street. Eastern Europeans that I've known love Wetherspods.
It's mad, you go in a trendy bar in Eastern Europe and it's all retro design classics or quirky theme places like the Depeche Mode bar in Tallinn or the Godfather bar in Kazimierz:
https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/omerta_37850v
but all my Polish mates like dusty musty boozers like the Sam Smiths ones in Soho or the giant Wetherspods like the one on Kingsway or Charing X road. You have to walk quarter of a mile to take a piss.
spindrift
The Artillery is nice. Plus you can pop across the road and look at William Blake's grave