The Lamb, Bloomsbury

The Lamb

The Lamb is a Grade II listed pub at 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, in the London Borough of Camden, London.[1]

The Lamb was built in the 1720s and the pub and the street were named after William Lamb, who repaired the Holborn Conduit, later renamed Lamb's Conduit in his honour, a few metres to the south, in 1577. The Lamb was refurbished in the Victorian era and is one of the few remaining pubs with 'snob screens' which allowed the well-to-do drinker not to see the bar staff, and vice versa.[2]

Charles Dickens lived locally and is reputed to have frequented The Lamb. Other writers associated with the pub include Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Hughes, who was a regular at the pub, arranged to meet Plath there in the early days of their relationship.[3]

A sign on the north side of the pub marks the parish boundary of St Pancras and St Andrew Holborn. The pub is on the Holborn side.

See also

• List of pubs in London

References

1. Historic England. "Lamb public house (1379276)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
2. "Snob Screens". Beer Lens. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
3. Connie Ann Kirk, Sylvia Plath: a Biography (Greenwood, 2004) p. 73

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