The Flask (1874). Flask Walk, Hampstead, London NW3. According to the Flask's own elegant website, in 1874 it replaced "a village pub, known as the Thatched House, where [fresh Hampstead water] was bottled and sold at threepence a flask. It was also sold to the taverns and coffee houses of London. Soon it acquired dubious medicinal qualities, relieving "complaints . . . of idleness, dissipation and frivolity". Jacqueline Banerjee adds that it is a Grade II listed building designed by the partnership of Cumming and Nixon, which still has the original "'mahogany and glass partitions and bar fittings and counter, wall tiles, cast-iron fireplaces with tile surrounds, moulded cornices," and a "partition screen in the lounge bar with Victorian chromolithographs" (listing text).

Photograph by George P. Landow 2008. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]

References

List Entry: Flask Public House. English Heritage. Web. 27 July 2014.


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