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The Gerrard Arms was situated at 41 Gerrard Road. This pub is now in residential use.

This was the local pub of the Fabulous Flexmores from 1920 to 1934/34. They were also known to frequent the York on the High Street. Ellen Mary Ann Dunn (1879-1934) and her husband George Ambrose White (1877-1933) were residents of No. 28 Colebrooke Row from (approx.) 1920 to 1933/34. They toured the UK, Ireland, Europe and the USA from the late 1890’s to the mid 1920’s. Ellen toured as Lily Flexmore, and George, a comedian, as George Flexmore. Lily, who trained from a young age as a contortionist, was famous as ‘the India Rubber Girl.’ She was still performing her famous Toe-In-Mouth Dance at the age of forty-six. George, an agent for Associated Newspapers, died suddenly in September 1933 at fifty-five years of age. Ellen passed away four months later, aged fifty-four, on January 19th, 1934.

Liam Mooney (February 2024)

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