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Christie's American branch at Rockefeller Center in New York. Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [3]
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade II listed public house at 145 Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court, City of London. [1] Rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666, the pub is known for its literary associations, with its regular patrons having included Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton and Mark Twain.
This is a list of real-life London pubs that are depicted in works of fiction. Pubs play a prominent role in British culture, with their portrayal in literature dating back at least as far as the time of Chaucer, and London's rich history of being used as a setting for literary works means this has continued into the 21st century.
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.
Christie's International Real Estate is an international network of independently owned luxury real estate firms with more than 400 offices and approximately 10,000 real estate agents in nearly 50 countries and territories around the world. The brand is separately owned but strategically partnered with Christie’s, the fine art auction house.
In November 2018 Joe Lewis sold his Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney in Christie's salesroom for $90.3 million. [ 40 ] Lewis is the owner of several versions of Arturo Di Modica 's iconic Charging Bull , including the original, which the artist installed during the middle of the night on 15 December 1989 on Wall ...
As the pub sign implies, the pub is not named after King Charles XII of Sweden, but a horse. Charles XII was originally a brown colt , bred by Major Nicholas Yarburgh of Heslington Hall. He was among the most successful horses of the era, winning sixteen of his twenty three starts. [ 17 ]
The first Wetherspoons pub in Northern Ireland was The Spinning Mill in Ballymena, County Antrim, which opened in 2000. [34] The first Wetherspoons pub in the Republic of Ireland, The Three Tun Tavern, opened in Blackrock, County Dublin, in 2014. Another opened in Cork in 2015.