Passing the Lamb & Flag, Oxford

While on St. Giles' Street in Oxford, we passed the Lamb & Flag pub:

We were aware of the Lamb & Flag's link to the Inklings literary group, and I've just read that in 1962, the Inklings started meeting in the pub due to the Eagle and Child being modernised on the other side of St. Giles' Street. However, the Inklings meetings ended in 1963 after the death of C.S. Lewis.

Interestingly, since seeing the Lamb & Flag, I've read that Thomas Hardy is said to have written much of Jude the Obscure, where Oxford is referred to as Christminster, inside the pub, with it also being thought that a pub which appears in parts of the novel is based on the Lamb & Flag.

While trekking round Oxford, the houses below reminded me of the boarding places where Jude Fawley stays in Oxford:

This is almost how my mind's eye has pictured them throughout the years.