The Amicable Anarchist... a suitable name for a pub
This well-placed pub opposite the priory ruins in Great Havell has an unusual name. It is named after Sergey Stepniak, who was described as the "Amicable Anarchist" in his obituary in the Times in 1895. The pub's acronym might appeal to those who announce to their families they are attending the "A.A." aka "Alcoholics Anonymous". The eponymous Amicable Anarchist was gregarious and popular. He propped up many a bar, before his demise under a train at Bedford Park. This popular intellectual asylum seeker (assassin of the Russian chief of secret police in St Petersburg 1878) was not looking where he was going as he typically had his nose in a book at the time the train hit him.