Fitzroy Tavern

The Fitzroy Tavern is a public house situated at Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district of central London, England,[1] owned by Samuel Smith Old Brewery.

It became famous during a period spanning the 1920s to the mid-1950s as a meeting place for many of London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Jacob Epstein, Nina Hamnett, Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell.

The building was originally constructed as the Fitzroy Coffee House, in 1883, and converted to a pub (called "The Hundred Marks") in 1887, by W. M. Brutton.

His granddaughter Sally Fiber who worked behind the bar from a very young age eventually wrote a history of the pub,[2] "The Fitzroy: The Autobiography of a London Tavern" with the help of Clive Powell-Williams.

Many figures associated with the show were also regular patrons, including Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell, Nicholas Briggs, and Mark Gatiss.

Wartime notice on the wall of the Fitzroy Tavern