Snob screen

A snob screen is a device found in some British public houses of the Victorian era. Usually installed in sets, they comprise an etched glass pane in a movable wooden frame and were intended to allow middle class drinkers to see working class drinkers in an adjacent bar, but not to be seen by them,^[1] and to be undisturbed by the bar staff.^[2]

A row of snob screens at The Lamb in Bloomsbury

Pubs with surviving snob screens

• The Bartons Arms, Birmingham^[1]
• Bunch of Grapes, London SW3^[3]
• The Champion, Wells Street, London W1^[4]
• Crown, London N1^[5]
• The Crown and Greyhound, Dulwich Village London (the screens have been re-sited)^[6]
• The Gate, London N22^[7]
• John Leslie's, Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh
• The Lamb, Bloomsbury, London^[2]
• Nova Scotia, Bristol^[8][9]
• Posada, Wolverhampton^[10]
• Prince Alfred, Maida Vale, London^[1]
• Princess Louise, Holborn, London^[1]
• The Beacon Hotel, Dudley