Timeline of London Bars and Clubs

1900s

1905 Criterion

1920s

1927 The Adelphi Rooms

Other clubs and pubs popular with homosexuals at the time were the Sphinx and Music Box, York Minster, Festival, Careless Stork, Boeuf sur Le Toit in Orange Street, the Arts and Battledress (also in Orange Street) the Swiss and the Marquis of Granby in Soho. Peter Wildeblood called them "less [than] discreet", rough and cruisy. Throughout the 1930s respectable men in evening dress and camp queans solicited sailors and workmen in the Running Horse. Other venues included the Billie's Club, the Hungry Horse, White Horse, Gerano's in New Compton Street, Chez Victor in Wardour Street. The downstairs bar at the Ritz Hotel was frequented by men from high society, nicknamed l’Abri (the shelter), the Trocadero Long Bar, the Criterion and Lyon's Corner Houses, Spartan in Tachbrook Street and Bennet's Festival.

1930s

Jamset

Cosmopolitan Wardour Street

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

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