Pakenham Tavern

The Pakenham Tavern was a pub on the western side of Knightsbridge Green.

Pakenham Tavern (1875)

The tavern was situated at the eastern end of Raphael Street, just off Knightsbridge. It was known for its wild evenings but was pulled down in the 1950s.
Credit: British History Online

Edward Nangle laid out a new road called Raphael Street which curved southwards to avoid a large house. In 1844, he converted the old house which became a pub called The Pakenham Tavern. Pakenham was the family name of the wife of the Duke of Wellington who had lived in nearby Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner.

Nangle became the first landlord of The Pakenham in 1848 when the pub was leased, on his initiative, to the brewers Elliot & Watney of Pimlico.

From the beginning, the houses of Raphael Street were lived in by the working class rather than the upmarket area it has now become. The street became notorious for brothels.

Meanwhile, the Pakenham Tavern hosted ’Free and Easy’ musical evenings. Causing many disturbances, local householders complained that ‘respectable early rising workpeople’ were giving up their lodgings because of the noise.

The Pakenham survived the Second World War largely intact but was subsequently pulled down for office development.

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