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The Salisbury was well known as a gay-friendly pub from Oscar Wilde's time up until the mid-1980s. [5] The 1961 British suspense film Victim, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms, includes scenes inside and outside The Salisbury and was the first English language film to use the word "homosexual".
Plusbus is available in 290 towns and cities, London is a notable exception. [5] It gives the rail traveller unlimited local bus travel around the whole urban area of the origin and/or destination town(s) of their rail journey.
Salisbury to Romsey, with a branch to Bournemouth; At Salisbury, the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Westbury and Bristol had its own terminus: the L&SWR continued the route southeast towards Southampton. This route is known nowadays as the Wessex Main Line. Between Salisbury and Exeter: Salisbury to Yeovil, opened 2 May 1859
The Hotel Cecil was a grand hotel built 1890–96 between the Thames Embankment and the Strand in London, England It was named after Cecil House (also known as Salisbury House), a mansion belonging to the Cecil family, which occupied the site in the 17th century.
St Martin's Lane is a street in the City of Westminster, which runs from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, after which it is named, near Trafalgar Square northwards to Long Acre. At its northern end, it becomes Monmouth Street. St Martin's Lane and Monmouth Street together form the B404.
English: Memorial to Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) in Westminster Abbey, London. The memorial, in black marble and bronze, by Goscombe John has a effigy of Salisbury, who is buried in Hatfield, lying on an alter decorated with family and official shields and 6 statuettes of his ancestors
The Salisbury was designed and built by John Cathles Hill, founder of The London Brick Company. The pub was opened in 1899 with W. A. Cathles, a cousin of Hill, as the manager. [ 1 ] Its construction cost of £30,000 is equivalent to approximately £4.27 million as of 2024.
The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge is a hotel at 200 Westminster Bridge Road in London with 1,023 bedrooms. [1] It was designed by BUJ architects, Uri Blumenthal architects and Digital Space, [2] and was built on the site of the County Hall Island Block, an annex of London County Hall, that was demolished in 2006. The building, also known as No ...