The ‘real’ attraction 🍺

The Lansdowne was a basic pub in Gloucester Avenue NW1. Still there, only now a ‘gastro pub’.

Back then, working in Camden Town nearby, we walked there in our lunch hour. The beer was good ‘real ale’. That was the attraction for me and my pals.

There was a grand piano in the corner with one leg sawn off so the piano body would sit on the stage. The show began.

A woman walked up, put a disc on a Dansette record player, climbed on the piano and slowly stripped. Nobody watched; everyone there was more interested in the beer.