The Pheasantry (London)

 restaurant, interesting place, Grade II Listed (UK)

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The Pheasantry (Pizza Express).Altered Georgian Townhouse/19thC facade.Has a long connection with the Music & Arts industry.It was saved (in part) from demolition by Sir John Betjeman in 1976

Serafina Astafieva (1876-1934).Lived and ran a Russian Ballet Dance school here.1916-1934.Blue Plaque,where British Ballet stars Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) & Sir Anton Dolin (1904-1983),Dame Alicia Markova (1910-2004) were taught.

Eleanor Thornton (1880-1915),British Artists model, and the model for the 'Spirit of Ecstasy' the Rolls Royce figurine (by Charles Robinson Sykes (1875-1950)).Lived here 1900-1910?

Living here in 1967 through to 1969,included

Eric Clapton,British Musician.

Martin Sharp,Australian Artist,Cartoonist & Musician.Oz 'underground' magazine.Lived here.1967-1969.

Germaine Greer,Australian Journalist and Feminist writer.Lived & wrote 'The Female Eunoch' here.(released 1970)

Philippe Mora,Franco-Australian Film Director.

Anthony Haden-Guest,Anglo-American Writer.

Robert Whittaker (1939-2011).British Photographer (especially of the Beatles)

Yvonne Elliman,American Singer,was discovered here in 1969 by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber & Sir Tim Rice,thus gaining a role in the hit Jesus Christ Superstar musical.

The house is a Grade II listed building.
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