Timeline of London Bars and Clubs
Contents
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
Possibly the first “gay bar” as we know the term was Madame Strindberg’s Cave of the Golden Calf in Heddon Street, off Regent Street, which was open before World War I. (Gay performance artist Ryan Styles uses its name as the title of one of his shows). [1]
1905 Criterion
1910s
1910 York Minster Dean Street (now The French House)
1920s
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
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
1960s
1970s
1980s
1984 The French House previously The York Minster
1990s
2000s
2010s
External sites
http://qxmagazine.com/pdf/gayhistory-soho.pdf
