London 1977
Peter MARSHALL
Music Nightly, Red Lion, High St, Brentford,
Middx, 1977
13e43: Hounslow, Middx, pub, gate
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Another from Brentford. There was something odd about this gate fixed on a very solid wall that promised nightly music.
The Red Lion it was on the side of was a well-known rock venue which was demolished in the 1990s to make room for a McDonald's. It was relatively small and intimate, but attracted some great musicians, including Bo Diddley who did at least a couple of gigs there, Dr Feelgood and Ben E King. It had been built in 1964-5 as a replacement for an earlier pub of the same name on the opposite side of the High St, demolished as a part of a road widening scheme when the gas works was being demolished, and which destroyed most of what then remained of Old Brentford (a few shop fronts went to the Museum of London.) Fortunately the road scheme stopped a couple of hundred yards to the west and was never completed, possibly because of local government re-organisation in which Brentford became a part of the LB Hounslow.
The Red Lion it was on the side of was a well-known rock venue which was demolished in the 1990s to make room for a McDonald's. It was relatively small and intimate, but attracted some great musicians, including Bo Diddley who did at least a couple of gigs there, Dr Feelgood and Ben E King. It had been built in 1964-5 as a replacement for an earlier pub of the same name on the opposite side of the High St, demolished as a part of a road widening scheme when the gas works was being demolished, and which destroyed most of what then remained of Old Brentford (a few shop fronts went to the Museum of London.) Fortunately the road scheme stopped a couple of hundred yards to the west and was never completed, possibly because of local government re-organisation in which Brentford became a part of the LB Hounslow.