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The Zetland Arms is a pub in South Kensington, London, on the corner of Old Brompton Road and Bute Street. It dates from the mid-1840s. [1] The pub is one of the few surviving original buildings from when this area was first developed. [2] In 1875, there was a brawl at the pub which started with insults about the Devonshire origin of some drinkers.
The Finborough Theatre is a fifty-seat theatre in the West Brompton area of London (part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) under artistic director Neil McPherson.
Another major landmark along the road is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commonly known as the Brompton Oratory. The Embassy of Uruguay is located at no. 150. [2] Brompton Road Underground station was halfway between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations on the Piccadilly line, just east of the Brompton Oratory. It closed on ...
The Troubadour is a nightclub, restaurant and pub located at 265 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London. Established in 1954, it is one of the oldest and last remaining nightclubs and coffee houses of its era in London. It still offers live music seven days a week.
South Kensington is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton . [ 1 ] Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening (and shutting) and naming of local tube stations. [ 2 ]
the central part: subsumed under South Kensington; the southern part: subsumed under Gloucester Road whose tube stop dropped "Brompton" from its title, and is either obfuscated as South Kensington or as Chelsea, depending on usage in Anglican parish boundaries or postal convenience-drawn limits. Brompton Cemetery North Gate on Old Brompton Road ...
Thurloe Lodge is a house at 17 Thurloe Place in the South Kensington district of London. It was the home of the actor manager Nigel Playfair and was subsequently the home of Mark Birley who founded Annabel's nightclub in Berkeley Square. Birley's daughter, India Jane Birley, sold Thurloe Lodge in 2011 for £17 million.
The Coleherne Arms 1866 public house was a gay pub in west London. Located at 261 Old Brompton Road, Earl's Court, it was a well-known music venue from the 1950s, and a popular landmark leather bar during the 1970s and 1980s. In 2008, it was rebranded as a gastropub, The Pembroke.