2940 x 3814 px | 24,9 x 32,3 cm | 9,8 x 12,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
10. August 2013
Ort:
208 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EP United Kingdom
Weitere Informationen:
Wooden Bar clock Princess Louise Pub Holborn London City England The Princess Louise is a public house on High Holborn, London, famous for its remarkable interior, with wood panelling and a series of 'booths' around an island bar. It is a tied house, being owned by the Samuel Smith Brewery of Tadcaster, Yorkshire. The building is protected by its Grade II listing[1] and has what has been described as "a rich example of a Victorian public house interior", by William B Simpson and Sons; who contracted out the work. As it is considered so historically significant even the men's toilets, with their marble urinals, are listed. The pub, which is also listed on CAMRA's national inventory of historic pub interiors, was refurbished in 2007. Being located near Bloomsbury, the British Museum and the University of London, it is patronised by professors and other educationalists. In June 2009, the pub was joint winner of the best refurbishment class of the 2008 Pub Design Awards awarded annually by CAMRA.[4] Author Peter Haydon included the Princess Louise in his book The Best Pubs in London and rated it No. 5 in the capital, saying it had "possibly the best preserved Victorian pub interior in London". The Princess Louise is also notable for having been the venue for a number of influential folk clubs run by Ewan MacColl and others, which played an important part in the British folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s
