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The Two Chairmen is thought to be the oldest public house in Westminster. [1] Its pub sign , featuring two men carrying a sedan chair , can be traced back to 1729. [ 2 ] The pub is near Birdcage Walk , where James I had aviaries for exotic birds, and close to St James's Park tube station .
The Naval and Military Club, known informally as The In & Out, is a private members' club located in St James's Square, London. It was founded in 1862 for officers of the Navy and Army . It now also accepts female members, and members who have not served in the armed forces, but continues to observe service traditions.
Depiction of the Thatched House Tavern. The Thatched House Tavern was an inn in the St James's district of London, England.It was located in St James's Street. [1] It stood between 1711 and 1843, when it was demolished and the site used for the new Conservative Club, with the inn relocated to an adjacent building where it lasted until 1865 when that was also pulled down. [2]
James St. James (born James Clark; August 1, 1966) is a television & internet personality, author, celebutante, frequent collaborator with Mathu Andersen, and former "Club Kid", a member of the New York City club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
By 1857 the square contained a bank, an insurance society, two government offices, the London Library, two lodging-houses and three clubs. However, some of the houses continued to be occupied by the fashionable and wealthy into the twentieth century. The Libyan embassy in St James's Square was the site of the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege ...
Interior of St. James's Hall, 1858. St. James's Hall was a concert hall in London that opened on 25 March 1858, designed by architect and artist Owen Jones, who had decorated the interior of the Crystal Palace. [1] It was situated between the Quadrant in Regent Street and Piccadilly, and Vine Street and George Court. There was a frontage on ...
Pall Mall with the Carlton Club, photographed by James Valentine Carlton Club in Pall Mall, c. 1896. The club was founded in 1832, by Tory peers, MPs and gentlemen, as a place to coordinate party activity after the party's defeat over the First Reform Act.
St James' Park is a football stadium in ... was installed as chairman. ... purpose-built 55,000-seat stadium would be erected, less than two pitch lengths away ...