140 Westbridge Road

Battersea

020 7228 5420

https://melanzana.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/melanzana

Above photo circa 2021.

The oldest pub in Battersea, Grade II listed, now an independent 'bar-trattoria-deli' with keg Peroni only. Once connected by a smugglers' tunnel to the Thames. Latterly "Raven One Forty," formerly "Raven."

The borough dates from the London Government Act of 1899, and includes the greater part of the original ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary Battersea. Under the same Act Penge, formerly a hamlet of Battersea, was constituted a separate urban district...the curious anomalies of local government led to Penge's formation as a separate urban district and its transfer to the county of Kent in 1900. This would join London with neighbouring parishes in 1965. Penge was a wooded district, over which the tenants of Battersea Manor had common of pasture.

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