Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London mb-width 4582 Interior view of Polito's Royal

Interior view of Polito's Royal Menagerie

it remained on the site at the corner of Westminster Bridge Road and Kennington Road until 1866

smoking and drinking

View along Lombard Street

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London mb-width 4582 Interior view of Polito's RoyalInterior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London, 1804. People inspecting one of the rooms inside the house that Bentley allowed to decay into squalor after his fiancee died on the eve of their wedding; his nickname 'Dirty Dick' gave rise to the name of the famous Leadenhall Street tavern on the same site.