![]() From the local press: "In a sad, but fitting coincidence, a former publican has died as the former century-old pub he ran is readied for demolition. Keith Woodhouse writes: "One story that I heard about the Red Lion in Aldgate was that it was where Dick Turpin killed an informer and started his infamous ride to York." One girl had a burn scar in the middle of the back which we could just make out in the mirrors before she turned round. The large mirrors behind and above the stage gave a good all round view. They had very very dodgy strippers there. My brother worked by St Pauls so we sometimes had lunch (ie a couple of pints and a pork pie) at this pub. I was at college at Sir John Cass School of Art in 1979. The older building on the site had an association with Dick Turpin."īarry Thomas writes: "The tube station was on the corner and the pub wrapped around it with an entrance on either side. my great grandma & her brother, orphans, were living in the stables belonging to the pub which I think were just round the corner in Leman St. This area was once a mass burial site during the Plague. The Victorian rebuild of the Old Red Lion was closed in the 1970’s and was finally demolished in 2004 to make way for a new station entrance. For a while his sign was all that remained of the pub demolished next to the tube station entrance.
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