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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Rose Of England was situated in the courtyard of Shell Mex House on The Strand. This pub closed in the 1970s.

Source: Rex Ward

I was at this pub aged about 8 ! Here’s the thing, it was run by my dads s( Ronald Frederick Marsh of Farnham Surrey ) step mother and the to my recollection, and that of my 95 yr old mother we drove there from Farnham in Surrey several times . In sometime in the late 1950s ,perhaps early 1960s,foggy night ,smoggy night- my grandfather had to walk in front of our Bedford Utilabrake for several miles with a torch on the return journey until the London smoke cleared and the clean air of Surrey broke through ! An event which I remember clearer than the actual pub. My dads step mother was the tenant of the pub and ran it for several years .

Paul Marsh (December 2022)

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