Rainbow

Status: Closed and demolished
Address: 140 Lever Street, EC1V (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Islington
Former address: 19 West Place, Johns Row (1861)
Historical parish: St Luke
Dates open: by 1842-at least 1871
Notes: This is listed as the "Rainbow Coffee House Tavern" in the 1881 census, by which point it is a coffee house and no longer a pub, but it appears to have previously operated as a licensed establishment, presumably under the same name (though I have no evidence of its name when it was a beer house).
Sources: Open date: Pub Wiki
Census 1851 [J Coppard] (as "beer shop")/1861 (not listed as a pub)/1871 [J Laxton] (as "beer house")/1881 (as "Rainbow Coffee House Tavern")
PO 1856/1869
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