PUB, formally PUBlic HoUse iS a drinking establishment fundamental to
the CuLtuRe of BritainThe writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as
the HeArT of England.
The HiStoRy of pubs can be traced
back to RoMaN tAvErnS, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the
development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.
In LoNDon MosT FaMous PuBs:
The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16
Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.
It became famous (or according to others, infamous) during a period
spanning the 1920s to the mid 1950s as a meeting place for many of
London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas,
Augustus John, and George Orwell. Several establishments in Soho,
London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and
artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and
the Coach and Horses.
The Red Lion
in Parliament Square is close to the Palace of Westminster and is
consequently used by political journalists and Members of Parliament.
The Punch Bowl, Mayfair was at one time jointly owned by Madonna and Guy
Ritchie and is known for the number of present-day celebrities that
have patronised it. The Coleherne public house in Earls Court was a
well-known gay pub from the 1950s. It attracted many well-known patrons,
such as Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett and Rudolph Nureyev. It was also
used by the serial-killer Colin Ireland to pick-up victims.
The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel became infamous as the scene of a murder committed by gangster Ronnie Kray.
The Ten Bells
is associated with several of the victims of Jack the Ripper. In 1955,
Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, shot David
Blakely as he emerged from The Magdala in South Hill Park, Hampstead,
the bullet holes can still be seen in the walls outside. It is said that
Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in The Crown and Anchor pub (now known as The Crown Tavern) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.
The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the
first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is
believed to have written much of The Rights of Man. It was mentioned by
Charles Dickens, became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative
Bank.
PhoToGrAPHer: IAN SIMMS
MoDeLs: INMACULATE CONCEPTION & LAURA WALTHAMSTOW
LighTinG: NENEI NEWMAN
StAff: JOE MAHON
StYLinG & DeSinG: MOUSSARAÑA
