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Date of photo: 2010	© Copyright N Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
The Tipperary was situated at 66 Fleet Street, and originally called The Boars Head. The name was changed to the Tipperary during the 1960s. Grade II-listed and on Camra's Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, it closed in December 2020 due to falling trade.
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Some concern was caused recently by the appearance of some legal notices fixed to the property. These were served by bailiffs acting for the owners in an attempt to remove some squatters who had moved into the upper floors. They did not relate to the future of the pub as such. The City of London’s Planning Enforcement team have visited, along with the City of London police, and are monitoring the situation. The famous mirrors are still there and undamaged. It is unlikely that demolition of the pub will be permitted but, in the current climate, there must be a question as to whether it reopens as a pub
London Drinker magazine, October/November 2022
Now reopened.
T C (June 2024)
Closed again.
T C (December 2024)
The Tip was The Boare's Head but became The Tipperary during or just after the First World War, when it was reputedly the first Irish pub in London and was the first pub to sell Guinness in London, if not Britain, from 1769 and was hence frequented by Irish soldiers passing through. The name the Boare's Head bar was retained for the upstairs bar. There was a pub on the site from at least 1605, and that pub survived the Great Fire of London because, unlike the surrounding buildings, it was built of stone. This, again reputedly, is why it is out of alignment with the rest of Fleet Street - it juts out into the pavement. Disadvantage - it is small by comparison to most of the other pubs on the Street of Shame. Lunchtime O'Booze, Private Eye's great journalist must surely have drank there, to be sure.
Stewart Rayment (September 2026)
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