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11am The Knight’s Templar, Chancery Lane UPDATE: Sadly, The Knight's Templar closed on March 18, 2023. It was the only Wetherspoons pub licensed to hold wedding ceremonies and had been offering packages for 100 guests with three bottles of house wine per table, a wedding planner, flowers, table decorations, and a live DJ, for around £5,000. T he average UK wedding costs over £20,000. For an 11am start, I now have to nominate another Wetherspoons - The Shakespeare's Head which is half a mile from the Edgar Wallace. At least it has the advantage of being adjacent to Holborn tube station. 12pm The Edgar Wallace, Essex Street Edgar Wallace was a patron and his bust is in the pub. The crime writer was a war correspondent for Reuters and the Daily Mail and also the BBC’s first sports reporter. When he died in 1933 he was writing the screenplay for King Kong. The landlord didn’t like the colour of the red ceiling but wasn...