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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.
46-47 Aldgate High St Hoop and Grapes: 18th century II 80 Farringdon St Jamaica Wine House: Shepherd Neame: II St Michael's Alley, Cornhill. Locally known as The Jampot. Was the first coffeehouse in London. Frequented by Samuel Pepys. The Old Bank of England: Fullers: 1886 II 194 Fleet St Old Bell: 17th century II* 95 Fleet St Ye Olde Cheshire ...
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]
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 ...
The building was formerly known as the 'Newcastle-upon-Tyne' and dates back to the 1870s. [2] It was built at the site of the water pump found by John Snow to have been the origin of a local cholera outbreak in 1854. [3] [a] The pub was renamed the John Snow in 1954, 100 years after the pump handle was removed. [3]
The Red Lion is a Grade II listed public house at 2 Duke of York Street, St James's, London, SW1. [1] The pub is located on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [2] It was built in 1821. [1]
The pub reopened as a Drunch gastropub in May 2017. [5] This was seen as a significant win for the community to retain the premises as a community asset. This opening followed a similar case in St John's Wood with The Clifton pub and The Star reopening within two weeks of each other. The Clifton retains its original name.
The Scotch of St. James is a nightclub situated at Mason's Yard, London. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tucked away at the bottom of an alley, it served as a prominent nightclub , live music venue and historically significant meeting place for London's rock elite in the 1960s.