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Picture source: Luis Redondo

The Rossetti was situated at 23 Queens Grove. Named after the pre-Raphaelite artist and local resident Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this was a modern pub probably built in the 1960s and still in existence by 1989 though demolished some time ago. This pub occupied the site of an earlier pub called the Prince of Wales.

Source: T C

I used to frequent The Rosetti around 1972. There was a downstairs bar with marble surfaces and an open staircase leading up to the first floor restaurant. It was all very white and modern and always bustling. On one occasion I saw a quite elderly couple walk into the bar. The husband (I assumed) followed the woman briskly through the bar. I noticed he was holding a microphone to her mouth. The microphone was attached to a huge tape recorder slung over his shoulder. She was walking ahead of him and he was having difficulty keeping up with her and maintaining his microphone duty. They made their way through the bar and up the staircase into the restaurant. She was talking non-stop! It turned out to be the over-bearing Fanny and her ‘incompetent’ husband Johnnie Cradock, the very popular and well-known TV cook and personalities. Obviously their TV personas were for real! Fanny was the first celebrity TV chef in the UK. Her programmes paved the way through the ‘Galloping Gourmet’ Graham Kerr to MasterChef now. They weren’t actually married in fact.

John Gardiner (October 2012)

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Name	Dates	Comments
Lesley Ferrer	1970s-1998	Francisco Ferrer, my father, was the publican, who passed away in 2008
Maria Rita Paluzzi	1984	I worked in this pub long ago and I still remember the nice people I met there.