The Victoria Battersea Review: A Queen’s Name, a Strong Score
The Victoria Battersea Review: A Queen’s Name, a Strong Score | One of Battersea’s best-scored pubs, flying the flag of the queen who gave her age, her park and half her borough its shape
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The Victoria Review: The Great Queen’s Name Over a Bermondsey Local
The Victoria Review: The Great Queen’s Name Over a Bermondsey Local | A well-loved Bermondsey pub flying the name of Queen Victoria – the monarch who reigned over the age that built this very district
The Victoria Review: The Great Queen Who Named the District
The Victoria Review: The Great Queen Who Named the District | A 4.2 pub named The Victoria, after Queen Victoria, whose name is stamped across this whole quarter of London
The Victoria Review: The Name of an Empire and an Age
The Victoria Review: The Name of an Empire and an Age | Named for Queen Victoria – whose name, borne across the globe by cities, lakes and streets, became a byword for a whole age of empire
Victoria Review: She Was Not Amused Is Almost Certainly Something She Never Said
Victoria Review: She Was Not Amused Is Almost Certainly Something She Never Said | A queen who laughed constantly, a phrase with no source, and the most successful piece of misattribution in English