2192 x 2001 px | 37,1 x 33,9 cm | 14,6 x 13,3 inches | 150dpi
Data acquisizione:
15 aprile 2017
Ubicazione:
Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10, UK
Altre informazioni:
The Trafalgar Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at the north end of Park Row, Greenwich, London, on the south bank of the River Thames, east of and adjacent to the Old Royal Naval College. Built by architect Joseph Kay on the site of a previous tavern and opened in 1837, it operated until 1915, after which the building was used for other purposes, including as a working men's club and residential accommodation. The Tavern reopened in 1965, was refurbished in 1968, and gained listed building status in 1973. It is located within the eastern boundary of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, designated by UNESCO in 1997. The Trafalgar Tavern was built on the site of 'The Old George Tavern'. This catered for local fishermen, but the owner wanted to enlarge the premises to serve the growing numbers of visitors to Greenwich. In 1830 he applied for planning permission to extend The Old George, employing architect Joseph Kay, who sabotaged the owner's application and took over the lucrative site himself. He designed a Regency-styled building which opened in 1837 The Trafalgar Tavern was visited by writers including Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens, who drank here with the illustrator of many of his novels, George Cruikshank. In 1865, Dickens set the wedding breakfast in Our Mutual Friend in the Trafalgar Tavern's Hawke Room. It also became well known as the venue for political whitebait dinners for the Liberal party in Victorian times, the last being held in 1885 when the outgoing Cabinet of William Gladstone dined together. This pub is associated with a tradition of ministerial whitebait dinners which began in the late 18th century. The meal would take place at or near the end of the parliamentary session. It wasn't geographically fixed, having taken place in Dagenham, then Blackwall and then this pub in Greenwich. By the late 19th century it was annual, and scheduled for Trinity Monday. From Mike Rendell: "These political gather
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