A tourist trap of sorts, this small enough city centre bar does have comedy nights which aren't really the usual thing to try get tourists through the door (trad, trad and more trad being the usual option for nearby pubs)
The pub is named after the unofficial but always used name of the adjacent bridge, referring to the former toll levied on it. The toll was got rid of in 1919. The pub use an image of an Irish halfpenny, first issued in 1928, as their logo, something nobody was ever able to pay for the toll - but I imagine that they didn't want to use the sterling coin from the time with a large image of Britannia!
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