The Cross Keys Heritage: Dylan Thomas, J. M. W. Turner, Agatha Christie, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Bob Marley, 1708 - 2012, celebrated figures drank here.
But not Dickens?
SW3, Lawrence Street, Cross Keys
This pub was first built in 1708 and is considered the oldest pub in Chelsea.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cross Keys pub
Detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, into a well-off family, ...
Robert Nesta Marley, singer, lyricist and Rastafarian icon. His reggae songs ...
Born Florence, Italy. Prolific American painter, specializing in portraits. A...
Poet. Born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, which is now a themed holiday renta...
Born (on St George's Day) in Covent Garden. Even as he became successful he r...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
In 2009 Alan Patient reported that "the pub has been boarded up for many months and the plaque removed." 2013: The Victorian Society are...
College of General Practitioners Sir James MacKenzie F.R.S., 1853 - 1925, physician, lived and worked here, 1907 - 1911.
The wonderful Ornamental Passions has reached this building (now a hotel) and answered the questions we had about it. To quote: "The buil...
John Lawson Johnston, 1839 - 190, inventor of Bovril, owned and lived here at 'Bovril castle' Kingswood House. London Borough of Southwa...
