Interior of The White Tower Restaurant in Percy Street
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Interior of The White Tower Restaurant in Percy Street
Interior of The White Tower Restaurant in Percy Street
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SC_PHL_01_351_63_1357 (Collage 113594)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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View of the first-floor dining room of the White Tower Restaurant, formerly Eiffel Tower hotel and restaurant, at number 1 Percy Street, Fitzrovia. The paintings on the wall play homage to a past in which the venue became popular with painters of the Vorticist movement in 1914 as immortalised by the painting 'The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915' by local resident, William Roberts. Other famous patrons include Augustus John in the 1930s as well as Archduke Rudolph, Madame Kharsavina, Lord Birkenhead, Chaliapin, the Duke of Gloucester, George Bernard Shaw and the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. The premises remains a fine dining restaurant currently the flagship venue of the 'House of Ho'.
View of the first-floor dining room of the White Tower Restaurant, formerly Eiffel Tower hotel and restaurant, at number 1 Percy Street, Fitzrovia. The paintings on the wall play homage to a past in which the venue became popular with painters of the Vorticist movement in 1914 as immortalised by the painting 'The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915' by local resident, William Roberts. Other famous patrons include Augustus John in the 1930s as well as Archduke Rudolph, Madame Kharsavina, Lord Birkenhead, Chaliapin, the Duke of Gloucester, George Bernard Shaw and the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. The premises remains a fine dining restaurant currently the flagship venue of the 'House of Ho'.
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