Edmund Kean Robert Walpole

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# Strand, London Standing in this court off the bustling Strand, you're at the threshold of two distinct worlds of dissent and performance that shaped Georgian and Regency London. In the 18th century, the Fountain Tavern housed the Fountain Club, where Sir Robert Walpole's political enemies gathere...

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In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club Also the Coal Hole the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member