Knightsbridge and South Kensington Pubs

A tour of pubs in Knightsbridge and a further exploration of Kensington, this time looking more at the South (and possibly West?) of Kensington.
See here for some out-takes from the Scarsdale: • Scarsdale Tavern Out-t...
00:00 Intro
00:28 Paxton's Head
03:44 Bunch of Grapes
07:52 Queen's Arms
10:52 Hansom Cab
13:47 Scarsdale Tavern
19:02 Outro
As always, a look at the exteriors, interiors and history of the pubs; along with a number of tenuously relevant asides. This time including the Great Exhibition of 1951, pub geology, Terry Thomas and a potted history of the threat of invasion posed by Napoleon in the early 1800s. Of course.
Pubs featured:
Paxton's Head: whatpub.com/pu...
Bunch of Grapes: whatpub.com/pu...
Queen's Arms: whatpub.com/pu...
Hansom Cab: whatpub.com/pu...
Scarsdale Tavern: whatpub.com/pu...
Three of the five pubs are on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors, for which I am grateful as ever as it provides an invaluable source of information about these historic fixtures and fittings:
Paxton's Head: pubheritage.ca...
Bunch of Grapes: pubheritage.ca...
Hansom Cab: pubheritage.ca...
Those three are also listed buildings, and here's what Historic England has to say about them:
Paxton's Head: historicenglan...
Bunch of Grapes: historicenglan...
Hansom Cab: historicenglan...
The Pubs History website was also useful in making this video as always:
Paxton's Head: pubshistory.co...
Bunch of Grapes: pubshistory.co...
Queen's Arms: pubshistory.co...
Hansom Cab: pubshistory.co...
Scarsdale Tavern: pubshistory.co...
Other articles / sources I found useful in making this video:
Survey of London volume 45: www.british-hi...
Survey of London volume 42: www.british-hi...
This article from "Where London's history happened - in the pub": londonspubswhe...
The UCL article on "Pub Geology": www.ucl.ac.uk/...
This article on William James of Kentish Town: london1psychot...
Oh and lots of Wikipedia articles, including:
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