The Anonymous Widower

Jazz At the New Merlin’s Cave

I took a 38 bus this lunchtime to go and have lunch with a friend and passed along Rosebery Avenue from Saddlers Wells Theatre to the main sorting Office at Mount Pleasant.

When we lived in the Barbican in the 1970s, sometimes C and I would go for a drink with the children at a jazz pub called New Merlin’s Cave to see John Chilton’s Feetwarmers and sometimes George Melly at Sunday lunchtimes. The pub was to the north side of the bus route.

I looked up the pub on the Internet and found this history.

Did those who were children in the 1970s suffer from being in a jazz club with all that booze and cigarette smoke?

Sadly the New Merlin’s Cave is no more!

February 6, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Entertainment, London, Music