'The Old Tabard Inn, in the Seventeenth Century', (c1878). View of the Tabard Inn, Borough High Street, Southwark, London. The inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]