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Lilliput Hall
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Date of photo: 1963 |
Picture source:
Timothy Keane |
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The Lilliput Hall was situated on Old Jamaica
Road. This pub was present by 1825 when the publican was Richard Lunn. It
closed c2000. |
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Source: Terry Buck |
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I used to go there when Bert Annabelle A
pianist with Ted Heath used to have it. Safe to say it was Londons one of
Londons first Jazz pubs. My last memory of it was Phil Seamen, the finest
jazz drummer in the UK, borrowed my drum kit because he had been called to do
the gig there unexpectedly. The other pub was The Ship in Long Lane,
Southwark which had some good jazz nights. I remember listening to Roy
Budd, he was 17yrs old, what a pianist wrote the music for the film Soldier
Blue. |
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Gary Kewley (December 2015) |
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There is a reference to the Lilliput
Hall Tavern in the London and Dublin Orthodox Journal, a very rare early
Roman Catholic newspaper, in the issue of 14 January 1837, p 32. It's a
brief report on the "anniversary feast" ie annual dinner of a society for
supporting the choir at Holy Trinity, Bermondsey (Dockhead) being held there
the previous Monday with about 60 people present. |
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Jean Olwen Maynard (October 2019) |
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I have just come across a reference
that it was used by the territorial battalion of the 12th East Surreys
before the first world war. The drill hall was almost next door so after
weekly training they retired to the Lilliput for convivial drinks.
Eventually the pub gave its name to the battalion who were called The
Lilliput Lancers. |
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John Hansell (October 2022) |
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