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A terrace straight over the Thames, and the smallest bar in London - which is younger than it looks.
Historic interiorOn the river
The Dove has been licensed since at least 1740, when it was the Doves Coffee House, and Fuller's have had it since 1796. The terrace at the back sits right on the water above Hammersmith Reach, with a conservatory and a fruiting vine behind it and two or three more tables up a spiral stair.
The famous thing is the public bar, about thirty-three square feet and the smallest in London. It is not ancient. CAMRA's researchers put it after 1911, made by a licensee who had misread the 1910 Licensing Act and thought he was required to.
A wall lists the drinkers: Dylan Thomas, Hemingway, Alec Guinness. James Thomson used it as his local and may have written Rule, Britannia! in a room upstairs. It flooded waist-deep in January 1928. Cards only, no cash.
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