"Jack St 5 the famous 200-years-old Hampstead Heath inn where Ben Foord, the South African, prepared for his fight with Eddie Phillips, was at one time regularly sed by boxers for training purposes.
Then, for no apparent reason, it overlooked by pugilists for a gene tion, until Len Harvey revived the practice, The last to train there before Harvey came along was Tommy Burns, whose picture hangs in the bar. Taken just before his departure for Australia, it shows Burns wearing a coat down to his ankles and an rakhan collar. Harvey, who often drops in for a game of darts, is fond of pointing out, with mock wistfulness, the evident affluence of this former champion, as indicated by the coat Though Jack Straw's Castle was named after one of the leaders of Way Tyler's rebellion, there is no proof that Jack ever visited Hampstead. The inn has associations with many famous people. Charles Dickens K frequent visitor and it was in the Dickens Room that Ben Foord had most of his meals.
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