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West House, 35 Bramerton Street

Bramerton Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from King's Road to Glebe Place. It was known as Caledonian Terrace until 1912. [1]

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Entrance to the Gateways Club, originally green

The Gateways Club, a lesbian nightclub was based on the corner with King's Road, but with its entrance in Bramerton Street from 1931 to 1985, and was the longest-surviving such club in the world. [2] [3]

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Bramerton Street area map

The socialist politician and writer Margaret Cole and her husband G. D. H. Cole, and the writer Ford Madox Ford was a visitor in 1920. [4]

The film composer James Bernard lived in the street. [5]

The grade II* listed West House is on the west side at the southern end of the street. [6]

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  3. Rebecca Jennings (6 August 2013). Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71. Oxford University Press. p. 126. ISBN   978-0-7190-8992-3 . Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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Coordinates: 51°29′6.18″N0°10′13.72″W / 51.4850500°N 0.1704778°W / 51.4850500; -0.1704778