Party at Silver Slipper club featuring Kate Meyrick
A group of revellers raising their glasses for the photographer at The Silver Slipper nightclub. Centre of the picture at the bottom is Kate Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene. She ran 43, a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho, was prosecuted several times for breaching licensing laws and went to prison for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. Her book Secrets of the 43 was banned on its publication in 1933. Three of her daughters married peers of the realm
Picture No
10433851
Media ID
46670244
Size
6472px x 4457px
(3.1MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph (original print) in The Illustrated London News archive
Date
c.1925
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