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Originally White Hart Inn Yard. The White Hart was one of the coaching inns that lined the route into London Bridge. It was laid out over the site of a 14thCentury pub which, like many, took its name from the badge of Richard II. In Southwark history it was over shadowed only by its more famous neighbour the Tabard. In 1450, it became the headquarters of Jack Cade, who led a popular revolt in Kent and across the south east to march on London in protest at maladministration. By 1881 the pub was already in a dilapidated state when it was photographed by Henry Dixon and Son. Eight tears later it was knocked down.
