Trying to find a picture of the coal burner and found this on Wikipedia
In 1962, the pub gave the Museum of London a number of sexually explicit erotic plaster of Paris tiles recovered from an upper room.[15]These tiles strongly suggest that the room was used as a brothel in the mid-eighteenth century.[16]
Highly likely it was a brothel bull, it's just off Covent Garden where most Inn's, Taverns and Ale Houses were connected with the trade.
I only learned recently that the light above the door of a pub was an indicator that the pub also operated as a boarding house and for your tuppence, you would get to share a bed with strangers (several).
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Which end of town. Ye Olde Mitre (in Hatton Garden) or if you want fancy Scarfe's bar in the Rosewood.
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My fave pubs:
The Punchbowl
Hunter's Moon
The Cross Keys
The Cooper's Arms
The Grenadier and other little Belgravia pubs
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Does the Cheshire Cheese still have that fabulous triangular cast iron coal burner in the middle of the ground floor bar?
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Nags Head (Kinnerton St) or the Cadogan Arms
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Trying to find a picture of the coal burner and found this on Wikipedia
In 1962, the pub gave the Museum of London a number of sexually explicit erotic plaster of Paris tiles recovered from an upper room.[15]These tiles strongly suggest that the room was used as a brothel in the mid-eighteenth century.[16]
https://web.archive.org/web/20140110195954/http://www.museumoflondonpri…
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+1 for the Grenadier
Antelope and Wellington on Eaton Terrace both v good.
The Dove may be a bit too far?
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How about Waterloo sort of an area? (Not the slug!)
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Highly likely it was a brothel bull, it's just off Covent Garden where most Inn's, Taverns and Ale Houses were connected with the trade.
I only learned recently that the light above the door of a pub was an indicator that the pub also operated as a boarding house and for your tuppence, you would get to share a bed with strangers (several).
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The Southwark Tavern
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The Pineapple for W'loo
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I know just the place
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U forgot the italics cookie
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Star Tavern, Belgravia
Grenadier also a good shout
Fox & Anchor near Charterhouse Sq.
That one in Borough Market
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Oh, and the Antelope too !
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Market Porter was the name I was after
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The MP is not so great these days
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I had my 30th at the Antelope
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A closed one.
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I bet Bentines will be along shortly to suggest the London Tavern on London Street, ha-ha! 🤣😂😆
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heh@Bentines
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The Old White Bear. Marginally closer to Central London than the Holly Bush, but further away from Hampstead station.
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Do any of these you lot are mentioning actually have a fire ?
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Yes
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If you want a pub fire have a look for one whose planning permission to knock down and turn it into flats was refused.
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Mall Tavern in Notting Hill Gate
Myddelton Arms in Canonbury(ish).
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The Cross Keys not judos- the spoons near bank.
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