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Licence to chill: Hidden in a £6million London townhouse... the cosy bar that made spying history and was paid for by both MI6 and the KGB

It’s not a feature you would expect to find in a £6million property on one of London’s most expensive streets. 

But in one of the main rooms of a Grade II listed Victorian townhouse in Chelsea’s Upper Cheyne Row is a bar that’s a relic from the 1960s.

It stands as a shrine to conversations that could be considered some of the most important of the Cold War.