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| − | [[File:The Chepstow.jpg|thumb|The Chepstow]]'''The Chepstow''' was a gay pub in [[Notting Hill]]. | + | [[File:The Chepstow.jpg|thumb|The Chepstow]]'''The Chepstow''' was a gay pub in [[Notting Hill]], located at 38 Chepstow Place, Westbourne Grove. |
Initially it tried to exclude gay men for fear of upsetting the straight clientele and the police were called, but it was subsequently reinvented as a gay pub.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T2vDpudEutwC&pg=PT292&lpg=PT292&dq=chepstow+gay+pub&source=bl&ots=UboUDiihqr&sig=WSIVYvJKCWNMh6yB9UhuHBeBlu0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig7tHF66rXAhUIC8AKHQ7iAI4Q6AEIlgEwDw#v=onepage&q=chepstow%20gay%20pub&f=false ''Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain?''] by Howard Malchow, Stanford University Press, 2011. Chapter 9, "Coming Out and Coming together: Anglo-American Gay Liberation"</ref> | Initially it tried to exclude gay men for fear of upsetting the straight clientele and the police were called, but it was subsequently reinvented as a gay pub.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T2vDpudEutwC&pg=PT292&lpg=PT292&dq=chepstow+gay+pub&source=bl&ots=UboUDiihqr&sig=WSIVYvJKCWNMh6yB9UhuHBeBlu0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig7tHF66rXAhUIC8AKHQ7iAI4Q6AEIlgEwDw#v=onepage&q=chepstow%20gay%20pub&f=false ''Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain?''] by Howard Malchow, Stanford University Press, 2011. Chapter 9, "Coming Out and Coming together: Anglo-American Gay Liberation"</ref> | ||
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| + | The lesbian social group [[Sappho]] met there in the 1970s and 1980s. | ||
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| + | In 1910 it was renamed The Chesterfield.<ref>[http://www.fancyapint.com/Pub/london/the-chesterfield-ex-the-chepstow/3249. "The Chesterfield (ex-The Chepstow), Westbourne Grove"] on fancyapint.com. Accessed: . ([http://www.webcitation.org/6umSObTeb Archived] by WebCite® at 2017-11-06).</ref> | ||
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| + | It has since closed. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Kensington and Chelsea]] | [[Category:Kensington and Chelsea]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:33, 6 November 2017
The Chepstow was a gay pub in Notting Hill, located at 38 Chepstow Place, Westbourne Grove.
Initially it tried to exclude gay men for fear of upsetting the straight clientele and the police were called, but it was subsequently reinvented as a gay pub.[1]
The lesbian social group Sappho met there in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1910 it was renamed The Chesterfield.[2]
It has since closed.
References
- ↑ Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain? by Howard Malchow, Stanford University Press, 2011. Chapter 9, "Coming Out and Coming together: Anglo-American Gay Liberation"
- ↑ "The Chesterfield (ex-The Chepstow), Westbourne Grove" on fancyapint.com. Accessed: . (Archived by WebCite® at 2017-11-06).
