Pubs in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Chelsea Potter

The Chelsea Potter is a pub at 119 King's Road, Chelsea, London.

It was built in 1842, and originally called the Commercial Tavern but was renamed in 1958 in honour of the Chelsea Arts Pottery founded by William de Morgan in 1872.

British History Online notes that "the Chelsea Potter became famous in the 1960s and 70s", and regular customers included Jimi Hendrix, and The Rolling Stones.

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The Churchill Arms

The Churchill Arms is a public house at 119 Kensington Church Street on the corner with Campden Street, Notting Hill, London. There has been a pub on the site since at least the late nineteenth century. The Churchill Arms received its current name after the Second World War. It is known for its exuberant floral displays and has been described as London's most colourful pub. It is managed by Fuller's and has a Winston Churchill interior theme.

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Coleherne, Earls Court

The Coleherne Arms public house was a gay pub in west London. Located at 261 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, it was a popular landmark Leather bar during the 1970s and 1980s. In 2008, it was rebranded as a gastropub, The Pembroke.

The Coleherne Arms (named after Coleherne Road) began life in 1866, at Old Brompton Road in the heart of the west London Bohemian Quarter. It had a long history of attracting a bohemian clientele before becoming known as a gay pub. A lifelong resident of Earls Court Square, Jennifer Ware, recollects as a child being taken there to Sunday lunch in the 1930s, when drag entertainers performed after lunch had finished. It became a gay pub in the mid-fifties. Originally it was segregated into two bars, one for the straight crowd and one for the gay community at a time when homosexuality was illegal. In the 1970s it became a notorious leather bar, with blacked-out windows, attracting an international crowd including Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett, Mike Procter, Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Perkins, Rupert Everett, Ian McKellen and Derek Jarman. Leather men wearing chaps and leather jackets with key chains and colour-coded handkerchiefs formed the clientele. The Coleherne was known internationally as a leather bar by 1965. The gay community flourished in Earls Court and many international tourists joined the locals.

It sought to lighten its image with a makeover in the mid-1990s to attract a wider clientele, but to no avail. In September 2008, it was purchased by Realpubs, underwent a major refurbishment and reopened as a gastropub, The Pembroke. The Coleherne was reputed to be the oldest gay pub in London before reopening as The Pembroke; the title then fell to the King Edward VI in Islington, which closed in 2011; the pub currently reckoned as the oldest gay pub in London is The Queen's Head in Chelsea. The Markham Arms at 138 King's Road, which closed in the early 1990s and is now a bank branch, was a gay pub on Saturdays only.

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The Cross Keys, Chelsea

The Cross Keys is a public house at 1 Lawrence Street, Chelsea, London SW3 5NB.

Built in 1708, it is the oldest pub in Chelsea. Regular visitors have included the artists Turner, Whistler and Sargent, writers Agatha Christie and Dylan Thomas, and musicians Bob Marley and the Rolling Stones.

In 2012, the property developer Andrew Bourne, the owner of the Cross Keys, closed its doors and boarded up the windows, having claimed that the pub loses money, and applied for planning permission to turn it into a mansion with a swimming pool in the basement. If he had been successful, the property could have been worth more than £10 million. In 2013, following a successful campaign by local people, it was sold on behalf of a private owner to Parsons Green Land for £3.9m, and is due to reopen as a pub. As of 2016, it is open.

Coordinates: 51°29′01″N 0°10′15″W / 51.483746°N 0.170951°W / 51.483746; -0.170951

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Drayton Arms, Earls Court

The Drayton Arms is a Grade II listed public house at 153 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London.

It was built in the late 19th century, and the architect is not known.

Coordinates: 51°29′26.1″N 0°10′59.9″W / 51.490583°N 0.183306°W / 51.490583; -0.183306

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Elgin, Ladbroke Grove

The Elgin is a Grade II listed public house at 96 Ladbroke Grove, London.

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

It was built in the mid-19th century, and the architect is not known.

The Elgin was a mod venue in the 1960s and a punk rock one in the 1970s. In May 1975 The 101ers were offered a weekly residency there which led to a nine-month stay.

Notable regular patrons have included the serial killer John Christie and Joe Strummer of The Clash.

Coordinates: 51°30′58″N 0°12′32″W / 51.51611°N 0.20889°W / 51.51611; -0.20889

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Fox and Pheasant

The Fox and Pheasant is a pub at 1 Billing Road, Chelsea, London SW10 9UJ.

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

The terrace that it forms part of was built in 1896. It was originally called the Bedford Arms, then the Prince of Wales ten years later, and in 1965 it was renamed the Fox & Pheasant. It was fully refitted in about 1930, and that interior remains largely unchanged today.

Coordinates: 51°28′56″N 0°11′17″W / 51.4821°N 0.1880°W / 51.4821; -0.1880

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Goat in Boots

The Goat in Boots is a pub at 333 Fulham Road in Chelsea, London, England.

It was originally called the Goat, but in 1725, it became the Goat in Boots. In 2013, it once again became the Goat and is now a gastro pub and restaurant.

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The Goat, Kensington

The Goat is a public house in Kensington, London, at 3a Kensington High Street that dates back to 1695. It is where the English serial killer John George Haigh, the "Acid Bath Murderer", met his first victim.

The Goat is the oldest remaining pub on Kensington High Street, being constructed in 1695. The area had become a regular east-west route when King William built Kensington Palace and The Goat was the first significant building on this new thoroughfare. It was built as a coffeehouse but, by 1702, it was an alehouse. In 1707, the freehold was purchased by the local parish for £80, using funds from the legacies of two women who had left money for education and support of the poor. The income from the alehouse was then used to support the poor and the National School which had been established in Kensington in 1645. There were extensive alterations in 1880. Around 1896, a new pub sign was painted by the Beggarstaffs who had their studio in Kensington at the time. This endured into the twentieth century and impressed the local art aficiando, Oliver Brown.

In 1944, the English serial killer John George Haigh, the "Acid Bath Murderer", had a chance meeting in the Goat with William McSwann, a wealthy owner of amusement arcades, for whom he had worked as a chauffeur in 1936, before spending time in prison for fraud.

They met at the Goat again at about 6pm on 9 September, when they had some glasses of wine and a meal, after which Haigh enticed McSwann to his workshop nearby at 79 Gloucester Road (now the basement of a branch of Kentucky Fried Chicken), broke his skull with a pinball table leg, and dumped his body in a 40-gallon tub which he filled with sulphuric acid. Haigh went on to kill McSwann's parents almost a year later, and dissolved their corpses in sulphuric acid elsewhere, before assuming McSwann's identity and selling all of his parents' properties.

There are many rumours of tunnels linking the pub to Kensington Palace, which it overlooks, and although there are extensive vaults under the road, and perhaps tunnels into the grounds, no tunnel to the Palace itself has yet been found.

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Hollywood Arms, Chelsea

The Hollywood Arms is a Grade II listed public house at Hollywood Road, Chelsea, London.

It was built in 1865, and the architect is not known".

Coordinates: 51°29′11″N 0°11′03″W / 51.4863°N 0.1843°W / 51.4863; -0.1843

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