The Black Lion

12, Bayswater Road Bayswater London W2, 3jh

Tel: 02072290917

Nearest Tube Station:

queensway: Central Line.

In 1830 it was used as a recruiting station for the “Paddington Volunteers”
They were formed to support King and the country in fear of invasion from Napoleon. If i say”Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth” ,ian not wrong.
The Black Lion has a rather unfortunate ghost story. Two hundred years ago, Francis Smith, an excise officer, decided to investigate the supernatural goings on nearby and lay in wait for the ghost, gun at the ready. In the dead of night the ghost appeared. He fired, killing a dust covered bricklayer, by the name of Thomas Milward. His body was taken to the Black Lion inn.