It quickly became a haven for artists poets radicals and free thinkers.
Colony room club london.
Tales from the colony room an oral history of london s most infamous bar delves into the artistic collaborations affections cruelties and regrets of the club s patrons.
An exhibition opens this week to celebrate the work of its regular clients read missing.
The colony room club was a private members drinking club at 41 dean street soho london.
The colony room club in soho open for 60 years from 1948 was a louche drinking den and hangout of an extraordinary range of artists poets radicals and free thinkers from noel coward e m forster and tallulah bankhead to francis bacon george melly and young british artists tracey emin and damien hirst.
It was founded and presided over by muriel belcher from its inception in 1948 until her death in 1979.