Bramerton Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from King's Road to Glebe Place. It was known as Caledonian Terrace until 1912.[1]
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.[2][3]
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.[4]
The film composer James Bernard lived at number 19 Bramerton Street with his partner Paul Dehn.[5] [6]
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.[7]
References
edit- ^ "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.