Scrooge’s Counting House & The Stock Exchange

Learn all about the birth of the stock exchange and insurance industry, and also visit where Ebeneezer Scrooge worked in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

The pubs around this area were the stamping ground for all the city businessmen and often feature in the literary works.

The Jamaica Inn, Simpsons and the George and Vulture would have been full of bankers and brokers hammering out deals.
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Rather Splendid London Walks Book

In this book of 20 walks, I will show you some of the fun, interesting, weird and ridiculous things I’ve noticed on my travels around London