Pinner Red Lion
The Red Lion is no more. The name became so well known as the forecourt was the turning circle for London Transport buses on route 183. Passsengers would ask for "Pinner Red Lion" even years after the pub went and the conductors (!) always knew what you meant. I first saw the Red Lion on my bus journeys between home in Hatch End and Pinner Grammar School which I joined in 1956 at the age of 10. I imagine that the drivers and conductors nipped in for "a swift half" when the inspector was not there! I never once went in there myself - by the time I was older and interested in beer the Red Lion was demolished and replaced by shops called Red Lion Parade. That may be their postal address but I can't believe older Pinner villagers use the name. Residents with memories of the 1950's and even further back say "where The Red Lion used to be!".
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RE: RE: Pinner Red Lion
Well I was in the same year at Pinner County grammar School as John and I remember him as well as remembering going into the Red Lion as a 15 year old and seeing the licensee sitting on a high stool behind the bar ordering his potman about. We were allowed to have a drink and were not chucked out. Some of the regulars started to chat to us and we went back on a number of occasions until we discovered the dartboard in the Queens Head in the High Street. I remember catching the 221 bus at Headstone Lane near the station and getting off at the Red Lion then walking up the Hill to the Langham cinema opposite the police station (where I was to work for a number of years) to see films such as 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' sitting in the one and sixies at the front smoking a Woodbine or two!
Comment from Dennis LeWorthy on Saturday, 12th March 2011.
RE: RE: Pinner Red Lion
Hello Den
Good to know you remember this!
I really liked the Queens Head - have you been in the gents there and seen the photos on the wall of the wheelbarrow races? !!
John
Comment from John Howard Norfolk on Saturday, 12th March 2011.