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Sally Fiber who was conceived and born in an upstairs room in the pub that gave Fitzrovia its name has died aged 81. She lived above the Fitzroy Tavern for the first 17 years of her life while her parents ran the pub that was the hub of London's bohemian society and loved by writers. …
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Fitzrovia's most well-known public house is to close for a year in order to undergo a complete refurbishment intended to restore it to how it would have looked in the late nineteenth-century when it first opened. Fitzrovia News has learned that The Fitzroy Tavern, on the corner of Charlotte Street and Windmill Street, will close in …
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