A view looking across the ballroom towards the stage in the Kit Cat Restaurant, formerly the Kit Cat Club, showing the dancefloor filled with tables and chairs

Date:
1927 - 1931
Location:
Kit Cat Restaurant, 50 Haymarket, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority
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Kit Cat Club, 50 Haymarket, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority
Reference:
AAA01/02/019
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

The Kit Cat Club was located in the basement of the Capitol Cinema at 50 Haymarket and was one of the most famous London nightclubs in the 1920s. After being closed down in December 1926, it was reopened in October of the following year under the new name, the Kit Cat Restaurant. The restaurant closed for a second time in 1931, this time due to financial pressures, but reopened again two months later, under new management.

In 1935 the Capitol Cinema was redeveloped and it took over the premises of the club.

Content

This is part of the Series: AAA01/02 Leonard G Allen and Gordon F Allen Collection: Photographs; within the Collection: AAA01 Leonard G Allen and Gordon F Allen Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Grove, Son And Boulton

Keywords

Ballroom, Dining Room, Early 20th Century Nightclub, Early 20th Century Restaurant