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Dirty Dick’s
Humphrey picnic, one without food, in his short story “The Feast of Nemesis”. Duke Humphrey, or Humphrey of Lancaster (1390–1447), also known as Humphrey Plantagenet, was “son, brother and uncle of kings”, being the fourth and youngest son of King Henry IV. He was a paragon for Eton College, an exemplar for Oxford, accomplished, diplomatic, with political cunning. Unlike his brothers, he was not naturally brave, but opinionated, fervent and judgmental. He exaggerated his own achievements, but idolized his brother Henry V.
Dirty Dick’s – «Грязнуля Дик», знаменитый лондонский паб
Before the beginning of the 19th century, the pub on Bishopsgate was called “the Old Jerusalem”, when it got its current name, Dirty Dick’s. The original Dirty Dick was Richard, or some say Nathaniel, Bentley, a prosperous city merchant living in the middle of the 18th century, who owned a hardware shop and warehouse, and is said to be the inspiration for Miss Havisham in Dickens’ “Great Expectations’. Bentley had been quite a dandy in his youth, but following the death of his fiancée, he refused to clear up or clean anything. His house, shop and warehouse became so filthy that he became a celebrity of dirt. Any letter addressed to ‘the Dirty Warehouse, London’, would be delivered to Bentley. He stopped Dirty Dick’s has been a pub since 1804 trading in 1804 and died in 1809. The warehouse was later demolished. But the successive pub owners capitalized on the legend. By the end of the 19th century, they were producing commemorative booklets and promotional material to advertise the pub. For years it kept the cobwebs, dead cats and other disgusting things in the cellar bar, but these have now been tidied up to a glass display case.
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