Knightsbridge and South Kensington Pubs

A tour of pubs in Knightsbridge and a further exploration of Kensington, this time looking more at the South (and possibly West?) of Kensington.

See here for some out-takes from the Scarsdale:    • Scarsdale Tavern Out-takes  

00:00 Intro
00:28 Paxton's Head
03:44 Bunch of Grapes
07:52 Queen's Arms
10:52 Hansom Cab
13:47 Scarsdale Tavern
19:02 Outro

As always, a look at the exteriors, interiors and history of the pubs; along with a number of tenuously relevant asides. This time including the Great Exhibition of 1951, pub geology, Terry Thomas and a potted history of the threat of invasion posed by Napoleon in the early 1800s. Of course.

Pubs featured:
Paxton's Head: https://whatpub.com/pubs/WLD/16068/pa...
Bunch of Grapes: https://whatpub.com/pubs/WLD/15994/bu...
Queen's Arms: https://whatpub.com/pubs/WLD/16035/qu...
Hansom Cab: https://whatpub.com/pubs/WLD/16650/ha...
Scarsdale Tavern: https://whatpub.com/pubs/WLD/16293/sc...

Three of the five pubs are on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors, for which I am grateful as ever as it provides an invaluable source of information about these historic fixtures and fittings:
Paxton's Head: https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs...
Bunch of Grapes: https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs...
Hansom Cab: https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs...

Those three are also listed buildings, and here's what Historic England has to say about them:
Paxton's Head: https://historicengland.org.uk/listin...
Bunch of Grapes: https://historicengland.org.uk/listin...
Hansom Cab: https://historicengland.org.uk/listin...

The Pubs History website was also useful in making this video as always:
Paxton's Head: https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/We...
Bunch of Grapes: https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Ke...
Queen's Arms: https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Ke...
Hansom Cab: https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Ke...
Scarsdale Tavern: https://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Ke...

Other articles / sources I found useful in making this video:

Survey of London volume 45: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/sur...
Survey of London volume 42: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/sur...
This article from "Where London's history happened - in the pub": https://londonspubswherehistoryreally...
The UCL article on "Pub Geology": https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbrxs/Homepa...
This article on William James of Kentish Town: https://london1psychotherapist.wordpr...

Oh and lots of Wikipedia articles, including:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincrusta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwarde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...