Wilton's Music Hall

Posted on 2012/04/15 12:34:05 (April 2012).

[Wednesday 11th April 2012]
Continuing in yesterday's theme of curios of old London, this evening I went for a drink with Al, who a whle ago had suggested we should visit Wilton's Music Hall. As far as I can tell it is more or less London's only music hall still surviving in pretty much its original form. The whole place is spectacularly threadbare and ramshackle and a much needed antidote to the sorts of bland clean interiors of most public spaces these days. We couldn't get in to see the actual auditorium as there wasn't a performance on this evening, but the bar is open most days regardless, and there's a rather special atmosphere which pervades the whole building.

After a drink or two there our thoughts turned to food, so given that we weren't that far from Commercial Road, we headed to the Lahore Kebab House. It wasn't quite as good as I'd remembered it had been on my last visit.

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