Whilst browsing Google maps the other day I spotted the Left Lion meeting point and on clicking discovered he’s now known as Leo.
Now when I were a young lad gallivanting around Nottingham in search of a good time in the late 60s/early 70s, like all Nottingham folk we often used to arrange to meet people by the lion statues in front of The Council House.
In those heady days of Shipstones & Home Ales and other brews drunk to the sounds of The Beatles & The Stones and other bands the lions were affectionately known as George & Fred.
George was the left lion because he was on the G