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Red Lion

A perfect small gin palace of 1871, all engraved glass and cut mirrors, next door to the barber.

Historic interior

Licensed in 1788 and rebuilt in 1871 by W. H. Rawlings, and what Rawlings put in is still there: engraved glass, etched and cut mirrors by Walter Gibbs and Sons of Blackfriars, polished mahogany and an island bar. It was four small rooms once, and the mirrors were arranged so that each of them felt larger and none of them overlooked another.

A former editor of the Architectural Review called it a perfect small Victorian gin palace, which is the description everyone has used since because it is the right one. It is very small and it fills at six.

Trumper's the barber is next door, which tells you what sort of street this is.

Where
2 Duke of York Street, SW1Y 6JP
Nearest station
Piccadilly Circus · 3 min walk

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