"With new initiatives like our cocaine testing in pub, bar and club toilets we aim to help licencees to deter antisocial behaviour and weed out the minority of people hell-bent on causing trouble for the law-abiding majority." Cllr Paget-Brown added. More than 100 guests attended the presentation at the 20th Century Theatre, Westbourne Grove including local licencees, police and councillors. These awards are about recognising the hard work and effort that goes into running establishments professionally, safely and with the minimum of disruption to neighbours." Yet many businesses run a very tight ship and cooperate fully with us and the police to ensure they operate within the law. Prosecuting for noise, nuisance and other disturbances is often our final sanction. "As the licensing authority and together with the police we are responsible for regulating this industry. The `Best Bar None' awards recognise the achievements of pubs, bars and other licensed premises in a number of categories.Ĭllr Nicholas Paget-Brown, Cabinet Member for Environmental Management, said: "We were delighted to be hosting this event for the first time in the borough and special congratulations to the Coleherne for winning the best pub award and the best overall licensed premises. In September 2008 it was purchased by Realpubs, underwent a major refurbishment and reopened as a gastro-pub called The Pembroke.A new awards scheme for all licensed premises in the Royal Borough celebrated its first winners on Monday 30 June. In the mid-1990s it sought to lighten its image with a makeover to attract a wider clientele, but to no avail. Ireland took them home, restrained them and in five cases, killed them. Ireland, who claimed he was straight, picked up men at the Coleherne, whose colour coded handkerchiefs indicated that they were into sadomasochism and passive.
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Serial killer Colin Ireland began a series of five murders in 1993, as a New Year's resolution. The Coleherne was infamous as the stalking ground for three separate serial killers from the 1970s to 1990s: Dennis Nilsen, Michael Lupo and Colin Ireland. It is referred to in the lyrics of "Hanging Around" by The Stranglers. Īmerican author Armistead Maupin included references to the Coleherne in his Tales of the City book Babycakes. In 1972 Coleherne pub goers, angry at the politicisation of gay sex, lifestyle and position in society by GLF, pelted passing parade goers with bottles. The gay community flourished in Earls Court and many international tourists joined the locals. The Coleherne was known internationally as a leather bar by 1965. Leather men wearing chaps and leather jackets with key chains and colour-coded handkerchiefs formed about half the clientele. In the 1970s it became a notorious leather bar, with blacked-out windows, attracting an international crowd including Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett, Rudolf Nureyev, and Anthony Perkins. Originally it was segregated into two bars, one for the straight crowd and one for the gay community, at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
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It opened in 1866 and had a long history of attracting a bohemian clientele before becoming known as a gay pub.