The Lamb, Grade II listed pub in Bloomsbury, London
The Lamb is a Grade II listed pub on Lamb's Conduit Street in Bloomsbury, London. It has two floors and retains much of its original Victorian interior, including rotating glass panels at the bar known as snob screens.
The building dates from the 1720s and takes its name from William Lamb, a Tudor-era merchant who repaired the Holborn Conduit water system in the 16th century. That legacy gave both this pub and the street it stands on their name.
The pub is named after William Lamb, a Tudor merchant who helped bring clean water to the area through the Holborn Conduit, and his name lives on in both the pub and the street outside. Inside, the original snob screens at the bar are small rotating glass panels that were once used by drinkers to keep their privacy while ordering, and they remain one of the few surviving examples in London.
The pub sits on Lamb's Conduit Street in central Bloomsbury, within easy walking distance of both Holborn and Russell Square Underground stations. Visitors exploring the nearby museum area will find it a natural stop along any walking route through the neighborhood.
On the north wall inside the pub, a parish boundary marker shows the old dividing line between St Pancras and St Andrew Holborn, two historic London districts. Most visitors walk past it without noticing, but it is a rare surviving trace of how the city was once divided at street level.
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