Bramerton Street
The Gateways Club, a lesbian nightclub was based on the corner with King's Road, but with its entrance in Bramerton Street from 1931 to 1985, and was the longest-surviving such club in the world.
The socialist politician and writer Margaret Cole and her husband G. D. H. Cole, and the writer Ford Madox Ford was a visitor in 1920.
The film composer James Bernard lived at number 19 Bramerton Street with his partner Paul Dehn.
In the early 1960s, production designer Christopher Hobbs and author John Roman Baker occupied respectively the top floor and basement of number 14. A fictionalised record of life in the street is included in John Roman Baker's book "Time of Obsessions".
The grade II* listed West House is on the west side at the southern end of the street.
References
- ^ "A-Z New to Old Street names". www.maps.thehunthouse.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ Patsy Staddon (3 June 2015). Women and Alcohol: Social Perspectives. Policy Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4473-1889-7. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ Rebecca Jennings (6 August 2013). Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71. Oxford University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7190-8992-3. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ Max Saunders (13 September 2012). Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume II: The After-War World. OUP Oxford. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-19-966835-9. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ David Huckvale (23 May 2008). Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde. McFarland. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7864-5166-1. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ QueerPlaces http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/fghij/James%20Bernard.html
- ^ Historic England. "West House (Grade II*) (1080657)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 March 2018.