Pillars of Hercules (pub)
- Pillars of Hercules (pub)
The Pillars Of Hercules is a pub in Greek Street, Soho, London. Most of what exists now was built around 1910, but the pub dates back to 1733 [ [http://ultimatepubguide.com/pubs/info.phtml?pub_id=243 Pillars of Hercules at ultimatepubguide.com] ] . Dickens referred to it in "A Tale Of Two Cities", and the road at the side of the pub through the arch is named Manette Street, after Dr Manette, one of the characters from that book.
More recently, the pub has been favoured by many figures from the London literary scene, including Martin Amis, Ian Hamilton, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan. Clive James named his second book of literary criticism ("At The Pillars Of Hercules") after it, apparently because that was where most of the pieces within it were commissioned, delivered or written.
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