The Story
Ashleys Bar occupied Wood Street in the early-to-mid 1990s, a quieter City corridor running north from Cheapside past the shell of St Alban's church — bombed in the Blitz, the tower left standing as a walled garden. In the post-Big Bang City, Wood Street sat slightly apart from the main drinking circuits around Bank and Liverpool Street, which gave Ashleys a more local feel: a bar for people who worked on that side of Guildhall rather than those chasing the crowd.
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