2-703-748 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Grenadier" in Wilton Mews, Where Coachmen Drink No More', c1935. Public house in Belgravia, London, built in 1720 as the officers' mess for the senior infantry regiment of the British army, the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. The building was located in a courtyard of their barracks. It opened to the public in 1818 as The Guardsman, and was renamed in honour of the Grenadier Guards' actions in the Battle of Waterloo (1815). It was frequented by the Duke of Wellington and King George IV. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]