The area comes to life early. By 6 A.M. the porters from Smithfield Meat Market are just finishing their day's work and streaming into the nearby pubs for refreshment. Links of London Jewellery The Fox and Anchor (115 Charterhouse Street), with its Art Nouveau facade, and The Hope (Cowcross Street), through which animals were led for slaughter when Smithfield was still a live market, are two of the pubs that have licenses allowing them to serve drinks from early morning.
By 8 o'clock office workers taking breakfast replace the meatmen in the pubs, but the Guinness and real ale still flows. If the current workers of Clerkenwell are a lively lot, they are only continuing the tradition of generations before them. Links of London Ring The many city dwellers drawn to the spas and pleasure gardens of old Clerkenwell enjoyed such entertainments as bear baiting and boxing.
One of the best known ancient wells still lies under the stage of the Sadler's Wells Theater on Rosebery Avenue. Founded as a musick house in 1683 by Thomas Sadler, a coalman who discovered two iron-rich springs in his backyard, the theater today is home to the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the New Opera Company. The Clerks' Well is now on view to the public in the Farringdon Lane offices of The New Statesman magazine, one of the left-wing publications published in the area. Allsorts 1 row bracelet A plaque erected in 1800 attests to water ''greatly esteemed by the Prior and Brethren of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the Benedictine Nuns in the Neighbourhood.''
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