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Date of photo: c1950	Picture source: Stephen Holliday
The Red Lion was situated at 4 Marlborough Street. The pub was demolished along with The Ship during the 1950s town clearance programme to make way for a block of flats. This was one of the pubs “ visited “ by the militia of the failed John Paul Jones raiding party on our harbour on 22nd April 1778. Although they managed to spike the guns of the Half Moon Battery situated on South Shore , they failed to destroy the reported 400 vessels at berth in the harbour when their candles were soaked in torrential rain… and ended up in this pub boozing!
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Site of The Red Lion	Picture source: Fred Long