The Eagle and Child St Giles, Oxford Coffee 95 p Coke GBP 1.20 (2001-02-10) A winding building of some age (an account is mounted on one of the walls), this is best seen from above and behind from Regent's Park College. At the street side, there's two small dark woody compartments on either side of the passage in, which widens to include a bar, then snakes round into the non-smoking conservatory at the back, which has a tiled floor and is very yellow. It seems very keen to sell itself as the pub where Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and the bloke who wrote "The Sword in the Stone" met, and called themselves the Inklings. In contrast, Cambridge has a pub that advertises Watson and Crick. A picture of this pub, taken from St Giles, is provided on the web by Taruithorn, the Tolkien Society. After the refurbishment that followed the division of Allied Domecq's estate between Bass and Punch Taverns, it looks much the same, but slightly shinier, The real ales on offer are now the standard Adnams, Bass, Ind Coope Burton Ale, and I think Greene King IPA. All of the food may contain traces of nuts. (2001-02-10) It hasn't changed, and after two and a half years it's still shiny. Beer range now includes Hancock's HB and Bateman's XXXB. (2003-10-07) Appears in Kate Pugh's Vegan Oxford. (Latest fieldwork: 2003-10-07)