Timeline of London Bars and Clubs

1800s

The Hundred Guineas Club Portland Place

1889 19 Cleveland Street (of the Cleveland Street scandal)

1893 St. James's

1896 Trocadero Long Bar Shaftesbury Avenue

1900s

1905 Criterion

1910s

1910 York Minster Dean Street (now The French House)

1920s

1925 Hotel de France now the site of Heaven

1927 The Adelphi Rooms

The Marquis of Granby in Soho.

The Hungry Horse

Gerano's New Compton Street

Chez Victor Wardour Street

The downstairs bar at the Ritz Hotel

1930s

Jamset

Cosmopolitan Wardour Street

Running Horse

Black Cat

1934 The Caravan Endell Street

1935 Billie's Club Little Denmark Street

1935 Festival Dean Street

1935 Careless Stork Denman Street

1937 Music Box Leicester Place

1937 Sphinx Gerrard Street

1939 Boeuf sur Le Toit Orange Street

1940s

1941 Arts and Battledress Orange Street

1941 Sam's Café Rupert Street

1941 Swiss Hotel Old Compton Street

1941 The Crown and Two Chairmen Dean Street

The Salisbury

Cave of the Golden Calf Heddon Street

1950s

1951 White Horse Rupert Street

1952 A&B (previously Arts and Battledress in Orange Street) Rupert Street

Rockingham Archer Street

Spartan Tachbrook Street

Bennett's Festival Brydges Street

1970s

1979 Heaven

1980s

1981 Subway

1984 The French House previously The York Minster

External sites

http://qxmagazine.com/pdf/gayhistory-soho.pdf