Zetland Arms

Last updated

Zetland Arms
Zetland Arms, South Kensington, SW7 (4224468171).jpg
Zetland Arms
Kensington and Chelsea London UK location map.svg
Red pog.svg
The Zetland Arms
Greater London UK location map 2.svg
Red pog.svg
The Zetland Arms
General information
Locationcorner of Old Brompton Road and Bute Street
Town or city London
Country England
Coordinates 51°29′36″N0°10′33″W / 51.493384°N 0.175891°W / 51.493384; -0.175891

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. A policeman ejected about a dozen people who continued fighting in the street, which resulted in a death from a fractured skull. [3]

It is claimed by the current owners, the pub chain Taylor Walker, that Charlie Chaplin bought the pub for his brother Marlon and his mother. [4] On pubshistory.com, it is noted that "According to the pub sign, the 1880 landlord Sid Chaplin was the older half brother of Charlie Chaplin the film star", and the 1880 Post Office Directory confirms that a Sid Chaplin was landlord in 1880. [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea</span> Place in United Kingdom

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the United Kingdom. It includes affluent areas such as Notting Hill, Kensington, South Kensington, Chelsea, and Knightsbridge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fulham</span> Area of west London, England

Fulham is an ancient and historic settlement within the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, with which it shares the area known as West Brompton. Over the Thames Fulham faces Wandsworth, Putney, the London Wetland Centre in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast. It lent its name to the now defunct eponymous pleasure grounds opened in 1887 followed by the pre–World War II Earls Court Exhibition Centre, as one of the country's largest indoor arenas and a popular concert venue, until its closure in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Kensington</span> Human settlement in England

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. Its name was supplanted with the advent of the railways in the late 19th century and the opening and naming of local tube stations. The area has many museums and cultural landmarks with a high number of visitors, such as the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Adjacent affluent centres such as Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Kensington, have been considered as some of the most exclusive real estate in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Wenlock Arms</span> Pub in Hoxton, London

The Wenlock Arms is a public house in Hoxton, in East London which began trading in 1787. The pub is located halfway between Old Street and Angel, just off the City Road and the City Road Basin and Wenlock Basin on the Regent's Canal. The pub has won awards for the quality and range of its cask ales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brompton Oratory</span> Church in London, United Kingdom

Brompton Oratory, also known as the London Oratory, is a neo-classical late-Victorian Catholic parish church in the Brompton area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, neighbouring Knightsbridge, London. Its name stems from Oratorians, who own the building, live nextdoor at the London Oratory, and service the parish. The church's formal title is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Kensington</span> Human settlement in England

West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, including the area around Barons Court tube station, and is defined as the area between Lillie Road and Hammersmith Road to the west, Fulham Palace Road to the south, Hammersmith to the north and West Brompton and Earl's Court to the east. The area is bisected by the major London artery the A4, locally known as the Talgarth Road. Its main local thoroughfare is the North End Road.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brompton, London</span> Human settlement in England

Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, survives in name as a ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex. It lay southeast of the village of Kensington, abutting the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster at the hamlet of Knightsbridge to the northeast, with Little Chelsea to the south. It was bisected by the Fulham Turnpike, the main road westward out of London to the ancient parish of Fulham and on to Putney and Surrey. It saw its first parish church, Holy Trinity Brompton, only in 1829. Today the village has been comprehensively eclipsed by segmentation due principally to railway development culminating in London Underground lines, and its imposition of station names, including Knightsbridge, South Kensington and Gloucester Road as the names of stops during accelerated urbanisation, but lacking any cogent reference to local history and usage or distinctions from neighbouring settlements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Brompton</span> Human settlement in England

West Brompton is an area of west London, England, that straddles the boundary between the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The centuries-old boundary traced by Counter's Creek, probably marked the eastern edge of Fulham Manor since Saxon times and is now partly lost beneath the West London Line railway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cadogan Estates</span> British property company

Cadogan Group Limited and its subsidiaries, including Cadogan Estates Limited, are British property investment and management companies that are owned by the Cadogan family, one of the richest families in the United Kingdom. They also hold the titles of Earl Cadogan and Viscount Chelsea, the latter used as a courtesy title by the Earl's eldest son. The Cadogan Group is the main landlord in the west London districts of Chelsea and Knightsbridge, and it is now the second largest of the surviving aristocratic Freehold Estates in Central London, after the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Estate, to which it is adjacent, covering Mayfair and Belgravia.

Sir William Palliser CB MP was an Irish-born politician and inventor, Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1880 until his death.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Pride of Spitalfields</span> Pub in the East End of London

The Pride of Spitalfields is a public house at 3 Heneage Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London, just off Brick Lane. It was associated with a Jack the Ripper suspect.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Flora</span> Pub in Kensal Green, London

The Flora, also known as The Flora Hotel, is a pub at 525 Harrow Road, Kensal Green, London W10. It backs onto the Grand Union Canal. It is a Taylor Walker pub.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Goat, Kensington</span> Pub in Kensington High Street, London, England

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

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Two Brewers, Covent Garden</span> Pub in Covent Garden, London

The Two Brewers is a pub in Covent Garden, London, at 40 Monmouth Street.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mercers Arms, Covent Garden</span>

The Mercers' Arms was a pub at 17 Mercer Street, in London's Covent Garden, at the corner with Shelton Street. It closed as a pub in about 1973, and is now a private dining club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Markham Arms, Chelsea</span> Former pub in Chelsea, London

The Markham Arms is a former pub at 138 King's Road, London SW3. It closed as a pub in the early 1990s, and is now a branch of the Santander bank.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Churchill Arms</span> Public house in London, England

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. Previously known as the "Church-on-the-Hill", the pub received its current name after the Second World War. It is known for its exuberant floral displays, and extravagant Christmas displays in the winter, and has been described as London's most colourful pub.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Warwick Road, Earl's Court</span> Street in Earls Court, London

Warwick Road is located in the Earl's Court district of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in London. The road began to be laid out around 1822 and was gradually extended south to Old Brompton Road over a number of decades. It is a major north–south traffic route in west London.

References

  1. Starren, Carolyn (2006). The Kensington book. London: Historical Publications. p. 123. ISBN   9781905286164.
  2. "Estates and houses before 1851: The lesser estates". British History Online (BHO). Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. John Carter Wood (2015), "Drinking, Fighting and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Britain", Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Routledge, p. 75, ISBN   9781317318941
  4. "Zetland Arms in Kensington". Taylor-walker.co.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  5. "Zetland Arms, 1 Bute Street, South Kensington - A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Kensington, London. This includes a massive area of London, including Brompton, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, Kensal Town, parts of Fulham Road , Portobello Road etc". Pubshistory.com. 10 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

Commons-logo.svg Media related to Zetland Arms, Kensington at Wikimedia Commons