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The Rossetti
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Picture source: Luis Redondo |
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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 built in the 1970s and closed and
demolished in the 1990s. This pub occupied the
site of an earlier pub called the Prince of Wales. |
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Source: T C |
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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. |
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John Gardiner (October 2012) |
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