The Owl and Pussycat public house at 164 Clay Hill Road first opened its
doors in 1963. The new public house and off licence was built alongside the neighbourhood centre to serve the
Kingswood area of Basildon. In the 1980s it was controversially renamed Lears after the English artist, author and poet
Edward Lear (12/05/1812 – 29/01/1888) who in 1871 published a nonsense poem called The Owl and the Pussycat from whose title
the pubs original name derives. The change though was short-lived and the pub soon reverted back to its original name.
Allthough not known in the pub's early years as a venue for live music in recent times many bands and artists have
performed there. |
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