Pubs in the London Borough of Camden

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Princess Louise, Holborn

The Princess Louise is a public house situated on High Holborn, a street in central London. Built in 1872, it is best known for its well-preserved 1891 Victorian interior, with wood panelling and a series of booths around an island bar. It is a tied house owned by the Samuel Smith Brewery of Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

Being located near Bloomsbury, the British Museum and the University of London, it is patronised by professors and other academics.

The building is protected by its Grade II* listing and has what has been described as "a rich example of a Victorian public house interior", by William B Simpson and Sons; who contracted out the work. As it is considered so historically significant even the men's toilets, with their marble urinals, are listed. The pub, which is also listed on National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, was refurbished in 2007. The pub is unusual in that it retains its snob screens.

In June 2009, the pub was joint winner of the best refurbishment class of the 2008 Pub Design Awards awarded annually by CAMRA. Author Peter Haydon included the Princess Louise in his book The Best Pubs in London and rated it No. 5 in the capital, saying it had "possibly the best preserved Victorian pub interior in London".

The pub was operated by Regent Inns from 1990 until 1998, when the lease was taken over by Samuel Smith.

The Princess Louise is also notable for having been the venue for a number of influential folk clubs run by Ewan MacColl and others, which played an important part in the British folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Queen%27s Hotel, Primrose Hill

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Rising Sun, Fitzrovia

The Rising Sun is a public house at 46 Tottenham Court Road, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2ED, managed by Taylor Walker. It is a Grade II listed building with English Heritage.

Coordinates: 51°31′9.2″N 0°7′59.3″W / 51.519222°N 0.133139°W / 51.519222; -0.133139

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Ship Tavern, Holborn

The Ship Tavern is an inn at the western corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, at the corner of Gate Street and the Little Turnstile in London. Established in 1549, at the height of the English Reformation, when Catholicism became illegal, it was used to shelter Catholic priests and hold secret Catholic services. It was originally in Whetstone Park, which was notorious for its gambling houses. Richard Penderell, who aided Charles II's escape, visited it, as did John Bagford (a shoemaker and antiquarian), the Chevalier d'Eon (a woman who lived as a man) and John Smeaton (the builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse). It was consecrated as Masonic lodge 234 in 1736 by the Grand Master, the Earl of Antrim, and rebuilt in 1923.

Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°07′08″W / 51.51722°N 0.11889°W / 51.51722; -0.11889

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Sir Richard Steele (public house)

The Sir Richard Steele is a public house in , north London, midway between Belsize Park and Chalk Farm tube stations on the Northern line. It is named after Richard Steele (1672 – 1729). It has been designated as an asset of community value.

Coordinates: 51°32′49″N 0°09′32″W / 51.54685°N 0.1589°W / 51.54685; -0.1589

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Upper Flask

The Upper Flask was a tavern near the top of Hampstead hill in the 18th century which sold flasks of water from the Hampstead spa. It was the summer meeting place of the great literary and political figures of the Kit-Kat Club such as Pope and Walpole. The tavern business ceased in the 1750s and the grand house subsequently became the private residence of ladies and gentlemen such as Lady Charlotte Rich, George Steevens and Thomas Sheppard.

It took its name from the flasks of spring water which were sold there, like the Lower Flask and The Flask in nearby Highgate. The Upper Flask was the most select of these, being in a grand Jacobean house near the summit of Hampstead hill, where it commanded good views of London and the surrounding villages. It was patronised by Whig grandees and literati who attended the famous Kit-Kat Club and removed its summer meetings to the "Upper FlasK". At first, these included Alexander Pope, Dr Arbuthnot and Sir Richard Steele. Later, the company included John Keats, Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They would drink their ale under an old mulberry tree in the grounds and one of the members, Sir Richard Blackmore, wrote:

Or when, Apollo-like, thou'st pleased to lead
Thy sons to feast on Hampstead's airy head:
Hampstead, that, towering in superior sky,
Now with Parnassus does in honour vie.

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The Washington, Belsize Park

The Washington is a Grade II listed public house at 50 England's Lane, Belsize Park, London.

It was built in about 1865 by the developer Daniel Tidey.

Coordinates: 51°32′44″N 0°09′46″W / 51.54558°N 0.16283°W / 51.54558; -0.16283

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Wells Tavern, Hampstead

The Wells Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 30 Well Walk, Hampstead, London.

It was built in about 1849.

Coordinates: 51°33′31″N 0°10′25″W / 51.55861°N 0.17361°W / 51.55861; -0.17361

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The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia

The Wheatsheaf is a pub in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, that was popular with London's bohemian set in the 1930s. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings, were known for a while as the Wheatsheaf writers Other habituées included the singer and dancer Betty May, and the writer and surrealist poet Philip O'Connor, Nina Hamnett, Julian Maclaren-Ross, and Quentin Crisp.

In spring 1936, the poet Dylan Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium. Introduced by the artist Augustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf. Laying his head in her lap, a drunken Thomas proposed. Thomas liked to comment that he and Caitlin were in bed together ten minutes after they first met. Although Caitlin initially continued her relationship with John, she and Thomas began a correspondence, and in the second half of 1936 were courting. They married at the register office in Penzance, Cornwall, on 11 July 1937.

Coordinates: 51°31′04″N 0°08′03″W / 51.5177°N 0.1341°W / 51.5177; -0.1341

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The Winchester, Highgate

The Winchester is a former public house at 206 Archway Road, Highgate, London N6 5BA.

In early 2016 locals campaigned to save the pub from a proposed residential redevelopment . While the campaign was successful, and the old building frontage remains undeveloped, The Winchester ceased operations as a pub in 2016.

It was on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

It was built in 1881 as the Winchester Tavern, and it later became the Winchester Hall Hotel. The name derives from Winchester Hall, a nearby late 17th-century mansion.

Coordinates: 51°34′25″N 0°08′27″W / 51.57366°N 0.14096°W / 51.57366; -0.14096

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