The Nellie Dean in Soho used to be one of the great advertising pubs. Dean Street, which was where you could find the Nellie, used to be littered with advertising agencies. GGT, GGK and CDP, BBH was nearby, and across the great South-North divide, Saatchi and Saatchi in NoHo. If you didn’t have three or more names above the door, you weren’t getting into the advertising club, it seemed. During the late ‘80s and into the ‘90s, the hard-drinking, hard drugging and hard just about anything else was done in this neighbourhood by ladies and gentlemen with far too much disposable income and an awful lot of built-up angst and unused energy.
A good time was had by all, and quite a lot of it happened in the Nellie. Nowadays it was a different place, much quieter, and the only rowdiness came from t
