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The British Lion was situated at 137 Thessaly Road. This pub was called Maloneys at time of closure. It is now demolished.

The British Lion, latterly P J Maloney’s, in Thessaly Road, South Lambeth was a handsome building and its beer was once good enough to warrant inclusion in the Good Beer Guide in 1998 and 2000. I’m not sure which pub company sold it but it was demolished in 2015 for a housing development, for which planning permission was duly obtained. But nothing happened... If you go there today you will find a heavily overgrown site surrounded by hoardings. Somewhat poignantly, the frame of the former pub sign is still standing. It was bad enough that a pub was demolished but then to leave the site untouched for six years adds insult to injury. Our planning system should not allow this to happen. A new proposal has recently been put to Wandsworth Council. We will see what happens

London Drinker Magazine, October/November 2021 edition

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Name	Dates	Comments
Trevor Goldhagen	1940 onwards	My Father, Joseph Goldhagen, was the publicain during the second world war. Our barmaid was called Jessie. We moved to Forest Hill after a V1 landed on a school in Acre Street.