Pall_Mall_Restaurant

Pall Mall Restaurant

Pall Mall Restaurant

Restaurant in London, England

The Pall Mall Restaurant was a hostelry situated at Number 1 Cockspur Street, Westminster, London, just off Pall Mall and near Trafalgar Square.[1][2] The site was subsequently the offices of the White Star Line, and was then occupied by a Tex Mex restaurant, the Texas Embassy Cantina. Currently the site is unused.

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The Pall Mall restaurant is chiefly notable for being the place where the Rugby Football Union was founded on 26 January 1871.[3][4] 32 men from 21 clubs met and set up the sport's governing committee.[5] A wall plaque commemorating the event was unveiled in 1971 by the Union's president, Sir William Ramsay.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "On This Day - Jan 26, 1973 - Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is born". The Irish News. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  2. [2]
    Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben (2008). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
  3. [3]
    Marshall, F. (2015). Football: The Rugby Union Game. Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-108-08394-2. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. [4]
    Rowley, C. (2015). The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-4422-4619-5. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. [5]
    Norridge, Julian (2008). Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?: How the British Invented Sport. Penguin Books. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-14-190337-8.
  6. [6]
    "Pall Mall Restaurant". Plaques of London. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  7. [7]
    Staff Reporter (31 January 1971). "Competition in Rugby!". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 64. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

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