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' When Thomas Cubitt developed Pimlico for the Grosvenor estate he insisted that the first building in any residential district should be a public house and these should be built on street corners. At the time he was also engaged in supplying the plumbing for Queen Victoria's Balmoral Castle. This pub, built to his specification, is named not the Royal Flush but the Balmoral Castle. '





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