Duke of Wellington: A Pub for the Victor of Waterloo
Duke of Wellington: A Pub for the Victor of Waterloo | A Dalston pub named for the Iron Duke, the general who beat Napoleon at Waterloo and went on to become Prime Minister
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Duke of Wellington Review: The Fifth One, and He Would Still Hate It
Duke of Wellington Review: The Fifth One, and He Would Still Hate It | Five pubs across five postcodes, and the man on the sign put iron shutters on his windows because he was so unpopular
Wellington Review: He Left the Shutters Up for Twenty Years
Wellington Review: He Left the Shutters Up for Twenty Years | A mob broke his windows, he fitted iron ones, and then he never took them down – and that is where the nickname comes from