Flora Tea Gardens and Skittle Alley Claude Duval

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# 66 Bayswater Road: The Swan's Final Chapter Standing at 66 Bayswater Road, you're looking at the last surviving piece of what was once Flora Tea Gardens and Skittle Alley—a sprawling Georgian pleasure ground now reduced to a single public house, The Swan, which has occupied this exact spot for ov...

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The Swan is the last relic of Flora Tea Gardens and Skittle Alley and stood on this site for over 300 years. The first documented evidence of a licensed Inn keeper is on a licensed victualler list for 1721. As a coaching Inn it is reputed to have been the final drinking place for victims of the gibbet of Tyburn Gallows which we now know as Marble Arch. Claude Duval the famous highwayman who was very active on the London to Edinburgh Road is alleged to have had his final drink here before being hanged at Tyburn in 1670