Monday 18 January 2021

The Dove Hammersmith

 

THE DOVE 

The charming Grade II listed Dove pub at the end of Upper Mall is where Rule Britannia was written by James Thompson in 1740 and boasts one of the smallest bars in London.  The list of drinkers here reads like a Who’s Who of boozers and includes Ernest Hemingway and Dylan Thomas. Stop for a drink on the terrace in summer or in the cosy lounge with a roaring fire in winter.

dovehammersmith.co.uk

Next door was the  Dove Bindery, later Dove’s Press, founded in 1893 by Thomas Cobden Sanderson who is credited with coining the term Arts & Crafts.