The Falcon, Battersea
The Falcon is a Grade II listed public house at 2 St John's Hill, Battersea, London.
[3] The Survey of London points to the earliest record of The Falcon dating to 1733, but speculates that an inn of that name had by that time long existed.
Its idyllic position is captured in a circa 1801 caricature by John Nixon, bearing comic verse from 1785 by Edward Trapp Pilgrim; both playing on the name of the then landlord, Robert Death.
The then landlord, John Tavener, entered into what appears to have been a land-for-reconstruction swap with another developer, George Nathaniel Street, so that The Falcon was in 1882-3 relocated to the curved crossroads corner of its site and rebuilt in its current form by builders R. & H. Pickersgill.
The interior of the pub was remodelled in 1896 by the builders Turtle & Appleton, who created an open-plan space by the use of cast-iron columns to support the upper floor, and the introduction of elaborate oak-work and glass-panel illustrations of the ancient inn's life.
1801 etching of a John Nixon caricature of The Falcon, playing on the name of the then landlord, Robert Death. Undertakers revell around the pub as in the background carriages ascending and descending the hill look to be in danger
