Samuel Pepys liked his beer

Well its time to make that trip to the central library, its something I dont really want to do but I'm sure it will be worthwhile.Perhaps I have an allergy to lots of books in a relatively small space,or it might just be the cambridge library itself, but if I can make it up to the third floor then I'm sure it will be worth it.So what do I need to find out? Well Ive been reading more about samuel pepys and apparently he used to stay in the falcon pub which was on the south side of petty cury and was said to be the biggest pub in cambridge , and queen elizabeth the first was supposed to have stayed there.Its more evidence to put to the people responsible for destroying valuble parts of the city, or not, maybe its just good enough to write about it.I dont know anything about the falcon so I'll see what I can find, also I'll try and find out as much as I can about fitzroy street, and whether I can get my hands on copies of the original building plans so I can get started on my model of the street, ok I couldnt find anyone else to make the model for me so I'm doing it on my own.Ive already found an old street map circa 1948 which shows the streets that were wiped out in the grafton build.Losing whole streets is almost as bad as losing pubs, and what if the street that was knocked down had a pub on it? doesnt bare thinking about.Oh no I just found out that samuel pepys used to visit the rose public house a lot, well the building is still there, hurrah, but guess what?, its been turned into a mcdonalds.Well its too late now but perhaps I should have dressed as samuel pepys for halloween and gone into mcdonalds and ordered a pint of beer.