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Date of photo: 1999	Picture source: Rick Martin
The King Of Bohemia was situated at 10 Hampstead High Street.
This pub was immortalised by the singer/songwriter Richard Thompson on his 1994 LP ‘Mirror Blue’ released on Capitol Records. Thompson was born in 1949 in Notting Hill and in 1967 was a founder member of the band Fairport Convention, who rehearsed in Muswell Hill. The song ‘King of Bohemia’ is named after the pub and relates to an encounter there with a young woman that presumably took place in the late 60s or 1970s – Thompson relocated to the USA in the 1980s.
Frank Wilson (November 2023)
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Name Dates Comments Knight 1950s/1970s In the days when Ronnie Greenhill was the nominal publican the KoB was expertly run by his wife withe the help of the indomitable Sadie. A truncheon was displayed in a cabinet to signify that this was a coppers´establishment. Alan Kerouac 1960s/1970s Met Frank Norman in there a couple of times nice bloke a bit scary looking.wrote banana boy and few other books i think.
Other Photos
Screen grab from the film "Les Bicyclettes De Belsize" 1969	Picture source: Denis Hoare
	Picture source: T C