London’s Alleys: Rising Sun Court, EC1

This is a small side alley in Smithfield that’s famous for the pub that dominates the corner opposite Great St Bart’s church.The alley is named after the pub on the corner, the Rising Sun, even though the pub’s official address isn’t Rising Sun Court, but 38 Cloth Fair, the main road the alley connects to. The pub may have originally been called The Starre Tavern, as two houses were converted into a tavern, and listed as such in 1616, and later renamed the Rising Sun Tave