Comments on: At The Hippodrome https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/04/02/at-the-hippodrome/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Barbara Haigh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/04/02/at-the-hippodrome/#comment-1707660 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:18:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202710#comment-1707660 Great story GA…

Simon Thomas is my friend, as was his late father Jimmy Thomas who died about three years ago. The two of them hosted my annual reunions for the original London Playboy Club for the last 12+ years. Both Simon and Jimmy loved Playboy and hope that our camaraderie and lifelong friendships will continue and that the same spirit will pass on to The Hippodrome.

Next year in 2026, Simon will be hosting us again at The Hippodrome and we shall be celebrating our 60th Anniversary of the opening of the London Playboy Club at 45 Park Lane, Mayfair. Hopefully there will be a great turnout. So many of our “girls” will be Octogenarians. I shall be seventy-several. Hoping to be there with bells on….!
Thank you Simon and your sadly missed Dad, we can never thank you enough. Barbara x

]]> By: Eddie Bosticco https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/04/02/at-the-hippodrome/#comment-1707145 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:50:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202710#comment-1707145 Thank you.
I remember the talk of the Town>
I worked just round the corner in Shaftesbury Avenue fo a while.

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/04/02/at-the-hippodrome/#comment-1707129 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:53:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202710#comment-1707129 I was thinking about how many times I must have walked or cycled past without it even thinking i
could go inside. (Other than presuming you couldn’t just wander in off the street) Then I got to
musing on how often one does that with buildings, especially famous ones. They become so much a background to your daily life it never occurs to you to go in. It’s ‘off limits’ somehow. Odd.

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/04/02/at-the-hippodrome/#comment-1707105 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:34:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202710#comment-1707105 Wow….that amazing!
I’ve passed by many times but had no idea how grand it is inside. Thanks for the very interesting history.

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