Red Lion Square
About Red Lion Square
Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides—Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton—were placed in a pit on the site of the square.
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The big car parking franchise NCP car parks in the UK founded their first car park on a bomb site in Red Lion Square in 1948, and lots more followed.
from 596: No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 at 00:39:51 · read transcript
Other times Red Lion Square came up
This is really fun, I promise. If you doubt it halfway through, just remember, it is really, really fun. That one, in Red Lion Square in Hoban, so 1948, founded by two guys called Donald Gosling and Ronald Hobson, and they were told, this will never work. That's a stupid idea. You can park on the side of the road any time, and no one's going to pay one shilling and sixpence for an entire day. parking in central London.
No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 · listen
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596: No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club put 3 places on the map.
Coordinates: 51.5192, -0.1189