Samuel Pepys and Punch's Puppet Show stone plaque

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# St Paul's Church, Covent Garden Standing before this modest plaque at St Paul's Church, you're witnessing the birthplace of British entertainment itself—the very ground where Samuel Pepys observed Punch's Puppet Show for the first time on English soil in 1662, an encounter so captivating that he ...

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St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, WC2

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Near this spot Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662