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Bramerton Street

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West House, 35 Bramerton Street

Bramerton Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from King's Road to Glebe Place. It was known as Caledonian Terrace until 1912.[1]

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Entrance to the Gateways Club, originally green

The Gateways Club, a lesbian nightclub was based on the corner with King's Road, but with its entrance in Bramerton Street from 1931 to 1985, and was the longest-surviving such club in the world.[2][3]

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Bramerton Street area map

The socialist politician and writer Margaret Cole and her husband G. D. H. Cole, and the writer Ford Madox Ford was a visitor in 1920.[4]

The film composer James Bernard lived at number 19 Bramerton Street with his partner Paul Dehn.[5] [6]

In the early 1960s, production designer Christopher Hobbs and author John Roman Baker occupied respectively the top floor and basement of number 14. A fictionalised record of life in the street is included in John Roman Baker's book "Time of Obsessions".

The grade II* listed West House is on the west side at the southern end of the street.[7]

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