The Spice of Life, London explained
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The Spice of Life is a pub at Cambridge Circus in London's Charing Cross Road. The pub was founded as The George & Thirteen Cantons[1] in or before 1759,[2] and later became The Scots Hoose. By 1975 it had been renamed The Spice of Life.[3]
As the Scots Hoose in the 1950s and 1960s, the pub had one of Britain's most celebrated folk clubs in its upstairs room,[4] run by Bruce Dunnet,[5] that featured some of the greatest names of the folk revival, such as Bert Jansch, Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Ralph McTell, Roy Harper,[6] Sandy Denny,[7] Ewan MacColl[8] and The Young Tradition.[5] The club operated under various names, including "The Young Tradition".[3]
Notes and References
- Book: Larwood, Jacob . English inn signs: being a revised and modernized version of History of signboards . John Camden Hotten . John Camden Hotten . 1951 . 1866 . . 785385 . 278 .
- Book: Survey of London, Volume 33 . Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London . 1966 . . 53051349 . 205 .
- Book: Laing, Dave . The Electric muse: the story of folk into rock . 1975 . . 978-0-413-31860-2 . 89–90 . etal.
- A Celebration of Peter Bellamy . Dallas . Karl . Karl Dallas . The Living Tradition . September–October 1999 . 34 . 9 October 2009 .
- News: Obituaries: Bruce Dunnet . . 23 March 2002 . 7 October 2009 .
- Book: Brocken, Michael . The British folk revival, 1944-2002 . 2003 . . 978-0-7546-3282-5 . 84 .
- Book: Larkin, Colin . The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music, Volume 2 . Colin Larkin (writer) . 1995 . Guinness . 978-1-56159-176-3 . 135 . registration .
- Book: Harker, David . Fakesong: the manufacture of British "folksong" 1700 to the present day . 1985 . . 978-0-335-15066-3 . 236 .