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The Old Red Lion is a pub at 72 High Holborn on the corner with Red Lion Street, Holborn, London.
The pub was established by the sixteenth century, and was rebuilt in its present form in 1899, and retains its original Victorian character.
The ''Red Lyon'' was the most important inn in Holborn, and Red Lion Street and
The Old Red Lion is a pub at 72 High Holborn on the corner with Red Lion Street, Holborn, London.
The pub was established by the sixteenth century, and was rebuilt in its present form in 1899, and retains its original Victorian character.
The ''Red Lyon'' was the most important inn in Holborn, and Red Lion Street and Red Lion Square
Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides—Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Hen ...
are named after it.
According to legend, in 1660, King Charles II had the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and his fellow Roundheads John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton ((baptised) 3 November 1611 – 26 November 1651) was an English general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 16 ...
exhumed to stage an execution of their corpses, and the bodies were stored overnight in the pub's yard en route to the gallows at Tyburn. The room upstairs is named the Cromwell Bar.
In 1621, the innkeeper of the Red Lion was indicted for his extortionate prices under statutes of 1389 (13 Rich 2 c.8) and 1402 (4 Hen 4 c.25). He was selling oats at 2s 8d a bushel, a mark-up of around 60% on the market price.Graham McBain, 'Abolishing the strict liability of hotelkeepers', ''Journal of Business Law'' (2006) 705
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Holborn Pubs in the London Borough of Camden {{pub-stub