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The London Tavern was situated at
110 Week Street. It took on several names over the years and eventaully
become the restaurant part of the adjascent Mu Mu pub/club (excellent by the
way).
My time there was the year or two before it lost it’s original London Tavern
name in the 80’s. I was a skinny heavy rock fan teen (too young to be there
but nobody seemed to care) and the pub was full of bikers, Hell’s Angels and
old dodgy geezers but I instantly felt I belonged. I had my first
introduction to Newcastle Brown Ale which was not a common drink in the
South then.
It was rough, tough, basic and had heavy rock bands. I particularly remember
a fight breaking out after Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts played, where everybody just
kept on drinking as if this was completely normal and insignificant.
I loved the lack of pretention and that anybody brave enough to walk in the
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