Pub renamed in Clue host's honour

A London pub has been renamed in honour of Humphrey Lyttelton – in the shadow of Mornington Crescent Tube station.

The former Crescent pub in Camden, North London, has been renamed the Lyttelton Arms in tribute to the chairman of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, which popularised the complex parlour game of the same name.

The jazzman once claimed to have invented the game with the regular players to annoy producer Geoffrey Perkins, after he found them in the pub when they should have been working. It made its first appearance on the Radio 4 show in 1978.

The newly refurbished pub also plans to host Sunday jazz sessions, in tribute to Humph’s trumpet-playing genius.

Regular panelist Jeremy Hardy said: ‘I think he’d be really chuffed, although he was not an egotist. ’

And the pub’s manager Ian Thomson added: “We just wanted to honour a legend.  His name is linked with Mornington Crescent. It was such a funny Tube station and he established it in the public’s eye as not just a place to go past on your way to Camden Town. ’

The Tube station already contains a plaque to Clue stalwart Willie Rushdon, which was installen 2002.

Lyttelton died in April 2008, aged 86.

Published: 2 Jun 2010