This pub is haunted by ‘Old Tom’, not a man but a goose! The story goes that he was one of 34,000 geese brought to Leadenhall meat market for slaughter and that he somehow escaped his fate. He became quite a character, wondering around the market and being fed titbits in the taverns. He lived to the ripe old age of thirty-eight but his distinctive honks continue to be heard in and around the pub long after his death