Part 6
The Indian Chief Chesterton
The Indian Queen Bodmin
The Queen Brentwood
The British Queen Old Kent Road
The Island Queen Islington
The Queen in the West Lincoln
The Queen of England Slough
The King and Queen Highworth
The Victoria Earl Soham
The Queen Victoria Highbeach
The Empress of India Rotherhithe
The Queen and Prince Albert Great Tichfield Street
The Prince Consort Hampstead
The Edward the Seventh York
The Alexandra Lincoln
The King and Prince of Wales Brick Street
The Prince of Wales Walpole
The Prince and Princess of Wales Walworth
The Princess of Wales Gateshead
The Princess Royal Pimlico
The Princess Amelia Stratford
The Princess Louise Holborn
The Princess May Durham
The Princess Beatrice Camden Town
The Princess Charlotte Princes Street
The Princess Victoria Earls Court
The Young Prince Reading
The Prince of Windsor Old Kent Road
The Prince Arthur Vauxhall
The Prince Albert Victor Castle Acre
The Prince Albert Edward Eccles
The Prince Albert Sunbury
The Prince Alfred Crowthorne
The Prince Edward St. John's Wood
The Prince Leopold Derby
The Prince Rupert Soho
The Prince Frederick Bromley
The Prince Teck Bermondsey
The Prince Regent Hounslow
The Prince William Henry Blackfriars
The Prince George of Cumberland Albany Street
The Prince of Brunswick Barnsbury
The Prince of Denmark Bloomsbury
The Prince of Hesse Fieldgate Street
The Prince of Orange Dinas
The Prince of Teck Earls Court
The Prince of Saxe Coburg Old Kent Road
The Prince of Prussia Windsor
The Crown Prince of Prussia Acton
King Alfred Lisson Grove
Alfred the Great Bolton
King Harold Romford
King Edward the Sixth Islington
King Charles Newbury
King Charles the Second Spitalfields
King Charles in the Oak Ely
King John Southwark
King Harry St. Albans
King Henry the Eighth Hever
King of Denmark Old Bailey, _note_ 166
King of Prussia Ringland, _note_ 167
King of Sardinia Mile End
King Lud Ludgate Hill
William the Conqueror Widdington
The Coeur de Lion Bath
The William Rufus Simon's Bath
The George the Fourth Goswell Road
The William the Fourth Ely
The Queen Adelaide Ely
The Royal Adelaide Ewell
The Queen Anne Maidstone
The Queen Caroline Norwich
The Queen Catherine Osmotherley
The Queen Charlotte Jamaica Road
The Queen Eleanor Enfield
The Queen Elizabeth Merrow Street
The Queen Victoria Theydon Bois
The Queen Dowager Teddington
The Queen of Hungary Norwich
The Archduke Charles Rodney Road
The Duke of Albany New Cross
The Duke of Clarence Hackney
The Duke of Connaught Norwich
The Duke of Cornwall Hammersmith
The Duke of Cambridge Putney
The Duke of Cumberland Kensington
Duke William of Cumberland Hoddesdon
The Duke of Edinburgh Fairfoot Road
The Duke of Gloucester Oxford Street
The Duke of Kent Liverpool Road
The Duke of Lancaster Hornsey
The Duke of Sussex Acton
The Duke of Würtemburg Hatfield Street
The Duke of York York Road
The Duke William Kennington
The Duchess of Clarence Vauxhall Bridge Road
The Duchess of Edinburgh City Road
The Duchess of Kent Liverpool Road
The Duchess of Fife Portsmouth
The Duchess of York Kingsland Road
The Napoleon Manchester
The Peter the Great Deptford, _note_ 168
The Empress of Russia St. John's Road
The Sultan Camberwell
The Grand Sultan Dover
The Shah of Persia Parkstone
The Mogul Drury Lane
The Great Mogul Maghull
The Cleopatra Savoy Street
The Royal Albert Hanley
The Royal Connaught Holborn
The Royal Saxon Westbourn Park
The Royal William Woodbridge
The Grave Maurice Whitechapel, _note_ 169
RAILWAYS
The Railway Peterborough
The Railway Bell New Barnet
The Railway Guard Clapham Junction
The Railway Porter Vauxhall
The Ticket Porter Arthur Street
The Station Melton
The Viaduct Kirkstall
The Junction Purston
The Safety Valve Forncett
The Express Kew Bridge
The Express Train Norwich
The Locomotive Derby
The Engine West Drayton
The Steam Engine High Wycombe
The Engine House Chester
The Engine and Tender Bedford
The Tramway Pakefield
The E. U. R. Ipswich
The Great Eastern Liverpool Street
The Great Western Paddington
The Great Northern King's Cross
The North Eastern York
SPORTS, GAMES AND PASTIMES
The Gun Lupus Street
The Cross Guns Thorney
The Dog and Gun Potto
The Dog and Duck Winchester
The Dog and Pheasant Bromsgrove
The Dog and Partridge Upton
The Duck and Dog Wymondham
The Fox and Pheasant Great Massingham
The Badger Box Annesley Woodhouse
The Equestrian Blackfriars
The Steeplechase St. Albans
The Stakes Stalybridge
The Turf Richmond
The Chester Cup Plymouth
The St. Leger Doncaster
The Amato Epsom
The Blink Bonny Chathill
The Diamond Jubilee Gaywood
The Flying Childers Kirkby
The Flying Fox Colchester
The Highflyer Ely
The Ladas Epsom
The Smoker Plumbley, _note_ 170
The Voltigeur Barton
The Race Horse Westhall
The Trotting Horse Ludlow
The Running Horse Sunbury
The Running H Blackfriars
The Running Cobham
The String of Horses Holbeach
The Horse and Jockey Oxford
The Horse and Groom Melton
The Man and Horse Moulton Eaugate
The Man and Saddle Chester
The Ostler Hackney, _note_ 171
The Post Boy Hitcham
The Post Boys Oxford
The Sportsman Aldham
The Huntsman's Call Worcester Park
The Huntsman and Hounds Walworth
The Merry Harriers Cullompton
The Hare and Hounds Sheen
The Fox and Hounds Barley
The Stag and Hounds Bristol
The Stag and Hunt Ponsanooth
The Stag and Hunters Brendon
The Bramhill Hunt Wokingham
The Brocklesby Hunt Goschill
The Old Berkeley Hunt Watford
The Surrey Hounds St. John's Hill
The Thornton Hunt Thornton Curtis
The Tally Ho Mettingham
The Hark to Bounty Staidburn
The Hark to Lasher Castleton
The Hark to Mopsey Normanton
The Hark to Nudger Dobcross
The Hark to Towler Bury
The Blue Cap Sandiway, _note_ 172
The Triumphal Chariot Pembroke Mews
The Royal Mail Upper Street
The Mail Coach Shepherds Bush
The Four-In-Hand Croydon
The Coach and Horses Ipswich
The Chaise and Horses Hammersmith
The Chaise and Pair Wickham Market
The Postchaise Ipswich
The Tandem Oxford
The Sedan Chair North Searle
The Wheel Ely
The Turnpike Hayle
The Horseshoes Tottenham Court Road
The Manger Bradfield
The Saddle Chester
The Pack Saddle Mapledurham
The Whip and Nag Norwich
The Whip and Collar Mile End
The Club Ely
The Recreation Faversham
The Anglers Ennerdale
The Ball Chard
The Bat and Ball Gravesend
The Cricketers Eton
The Merry Cricketers Bermondsey
The Cricket Players Shipham
The Wrestlers Norwich
The Archery Bathurst Street
The Butts Aldermaston
The Arrow Himbleton
The Cross Bow Sotherton
The Bird Bolt Cambridge, _note_ 173
The Bowling Green Badingham
The Corner Pin Clerkenwell
The Pin and Bowl Wokingham
The Coat and Badge Hammersmith
The Chequers Sudbourne
The Tennis Court Bradford
The Dumb Bell Taplow
The Air Balloon Landport
The Balloon Holbeck
The Noah's Ark Oxford Street
The Hoop Cambridge
The Hoops Saffron Walden
The Hoop and Toy South Kensington
The Ninepin Cambridge
The Clown Islington
The Harlequin Lincoln
The Queen of Trumps West Walton
The Knave of Clubs Bethnal Green
THE MOST ANCIENT INNS
_Circa_
The Fountain Canterbury 1029
The Ostrich Colnbrook 1110
The Angel Grantham 1214
The George and Dragon Speedhurst 1250
The Seven Stars Manchester 1355
The George Norton St. Philip 1399
The Cardinal's Cap Cambridge 1400
The New Inn Gloucester 1456
The Running Horses Leatherhead 1520
The George Southwark 1555
The George Winchcombe 1583
The White Hart Scole 1655
The Lord Crewe Arms Blanchland
The Star Alfriston
The Pope's Head Norwich
The Anglers Ennerdale
The Dick Whittington Cloth Fair
The Harlequin Lincoln
THE HIGHEST INNS
_Feet_
The Tan Hill Inn Swaledale 1727
The Cat and Fiddle Cheshire 1690
The Travellers' Rest Flash Bar 1535
The Island of Skye Wessenden Head 1500
The Newby Head Ingleton 1420
The Duchy Dartmoor 1359
The Moorcock Hawes Junction 1050
"GALLOWS SIGNS"
The Fox and Hounds Barley
The Magpie Stonham Parva
The Green Man and Black's Head Ashbourne
The Red Lion Hampton
The Four Swans Waltham Cross
The George Stamford
The Swan Fittleworth
SIGNS PAINTED BY WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS
The Man Laden with Mischief Oxford St. Hogarth
The Stag Doncaster J. F. Herring
The Coach and Horses Doncaster J. F. Herring
The White Lion Doncaster J. F. Herring
The Loggerheads Llanverris David Cox
The Fox and Pelican Grayshott Walter Crane
The Row Barge Wallingford Leslie
The George and Dragon Wargrave Leslie and Hodgson
The Ferry Rosneath H.R.H. Princess Louise
The Mortal Man Troutbeck Ibbetson
The Smoker Plumbley Miss Leighton
The Two Sawyers Pockthorpe John Crome Brewery, Norwich
INNS FAMOUS FOR ARCHITECTURE
The Reindeer Banbury
The Crown and Treaty House Uxbridge
The Feathers Ludlow
The Raven Shrewsbury
The New Inn Gloucester
The Bear and Billet Chester
FOREIGN CAFÉ SIGNS
La Briarde (nourrice) Hondeghem
La Poupée Poperinghe
Au Papegai Poperinghe
Au damier de Comines Poperinghe
Skindles Poperinghe
Au Faucon Poperinghe
Au cour de Flandre Poperinghe
À la tête d'argent Poperinghe
Au Congo Dickebusch
Au Transvaal La Clytte
Au Tivoli La Clytte
Au Faubourg Reninghelst
Au cheval Boulonnais Abeele
Au Comte de Flandre Abeele
Au retour de la gare Abeele
À St. Eloi Abeele
Au cheval d'or Rexpoede
Au retour de la nouvelle Boescheppe Calédonie
Au grand St. Sebastien Steenvoorde
Au vrai Cacillane Steenvoorde
Au drapeau Français Steenvoorde
Au Comte Géant Bailleul
À la porte d'or Bergues
À l'aviation Bergues
Au vaisseau de ligne Bergues
Hôtel Faidherbe Dunkirk
Au retour des Docks Dunkirk
À l'ancien courrier de Calais Dunkirk
Aux deux entêtés Winquin
L'as de trefle Renescure
La Bascule Ebblinghem
Trois Chevaux Hazebrouck
L'assurance contre la soif Watten dix centimes l'action
À Paris comme à Londres le Watten soleil luit pour tout le monde
Au Sébastopol Nort Nentinghem
La maison Blanche Monnecove
Au coeur joyeux Tilques
Au grand Marlborough St. Martin au Laert
Le Taupier de Normandie St. Omer
À l'entrée de Milan St. Pol
Au chat vert St. Pol
Trois Pigeons Fruges
La ville de Boulogne Fruges
Hôtel moderne Fruges
À la ville de Cassel Fruges
Aux Alliés vainqueurs Fruges
Cheval noir Fruges
Au Voltigeur Pont de Nieppe
À Moscou Pont de Nieppe
À Faidherbe Pont de Nieppe
Au Boeuf Armentières
Au grand homme Armentières
Aux dix chasseurs à Pied Armentières
Au fer à cheval Crépy
À la Batteuse de Trefle Roellecourt
Au bourrelier Rosult
Au razoir Americain Hasnon
Au coq Hardi Denain
Café Maubeugeois Denain
Aux Quatrième Hussards Denain
Au chat noir Denain
Au Tambour major Denain
À l'entr'acte Denain
À la colombe denaisienne Denain
Au repos des cochers Lille
Café Bellevue Lille
Café Mulhouse Lille
Hôtel de l'Europe Lille
À la gaieté Noeux les Mines (tenancier, Meurdesoif)
À la Fraternelle 20-100-0 Ruitz
Vin sans eau Coupelle Vieille
Au vert Baudet Arras
Aux neuf Fillettes Arras
À la tête de boeuf Abbeville
Hôtel de France Abbeville
Au canon d'or Crécy
À la descente de la jeunesse Amiens
Hôtel du Rhin Amiens
À l'étoile du jour Pont Rémy
À la grâce de Dieu Pont Rémy
Aux voyageurs Etaples
Aux quatre fils d'aymon Doullens
Au petit caporal Henencourt
À la Hotte pleine de malice Villers Simon
Au Tonkin Caumesnil
Hôtel de la cloche Dijon
Hôtel du Jura Dijon
Hôtel de Bourgogne Dijon
À la chaudière Melun
Lille et Albion Paris
France et Choiseul Paris
St. James et Albany Paris
Continental Paris
Au club alpin Champex
Trois Couronnes Martigny (A.D. 1609)
Hôtel du grand St. Bernard Martigny
Café de la vapeur Vevey
Café du Transvaal Vevey
Hôtel d'Angleterre Vevey
Hôtel du château Ouchy
Hôtel Beau Rivage Ouchy
Café de la navigation Ouchy
Café du nègre blanc Lausanne
Café du Raisin Lausanne
Hôtel Gibbon Lausanne
Hôtel Beauséjour Lausanne
Hôtel Communal Pully
Café des trois chasseurs Monts de Pully
Au chasseur Prilly
Café de la Truite Villeneuve
Au cheval blanc St. Blaise
À la Turquie Chessel
NOTES
Unless otherwise stated, the House is situated in a London street.
1. A personification of malt liquor, alluded to by Robert Burns. Three barleycorns equal 1 inch.
2. A heap of Barley; Saxon--mowe; Italian--mucchio. Appears in Hogarth's print 'Beer Street.'
3. Horse and Dorsers or Dorsiters. An old rendering of 'Pack Horse.' Sometimes found as the FRIGHTED Horse, a corruption of 'freighted.'
4. Now a private house. Taylor the water-poet alludes to the incident of the River Nen overflowing its banks and carrying away a man asleep on a hay-cock. The old signboard illustrated this event.
5. Strike--the round piece of wood used in levelling the struck bushel.
6. Larwood and Hotten state that this sign is found in the neighbourhood of nursery gardens.
7. Refers to the Heart of the Holy Virgin pierced with swords.
8. Commemorates 'England's Wooden Walls.'
9. On a board is written:
This gate hangs high and hinders none Refesh [_sic_] and pay and journey on.
10. May refer to the Papal Hand raised in blessing. See Bishop Hall's 'Satires,' Book V., Sat. 2 (Larwood).
11. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Turks were the bugbear of Europe. Similar signs are Black's Head and Saracen's Head and Negro's Head. Negroes with feathered heads were often seen as tobacconists' signs.
12. In this house King Charles I. was given up to the Scotch Commissioners.
13. This tavern alludes to the Duke of Bedford, ground landlord of the district. Pope recommends the house for its cuisine.
14. Lode--a ditch that guides water into a river. (Dr. Brewer.) This inn is situated in the Fen district.
15. One of the oldest licensed houses in England. The Pope's Head in Cornhill was a famous tavern; the alley still remains.
16. This inn has a sign representing this politician with a copy of the _North Briton_ under his left arm.
17. An obsolete term for a large hunting dog. _Cf._ PACKHORSE AND TALBOT.
18. One that carries baggage. _Cf._ PACKHORSE, HORSE AND DORSERS (note).
19. Common as a perfumer's sign in Europe. The Civet is said to produce musk. (Larwood.)
20. Jocularly called 'The gentleman in trouble.' Formerly a starting place for coaches.
21. Once called 'Pig and Whip.' Tradition has it that the present sign refers to a surly tenant.
22. A mammoth beast born at Ketton (near Darlington), which toured England on exhibition at fairs, etc.
23. Baldfaced--a term applied to animals which have a white strip down forehead to nose.
24. Alludes to a fabulous monster supposed to have been discovered at St. Osyth, in Essex, in the reign of Henry the Second. (Larwood.)
25. The Grasshopper was the crest of Sir Thomas Gresham, and may still be seen on weathervane of the Royal Exchange.
26. The papal arms.
27. Scutch--to strip hides. (Dr. Brewer.)
28. The Rising Sun in Islington Road gives notice in 1726 that a fine hog will be Barbecued--_i.e._ whole roasted, stuffed with spice, basted with Madeira. (Larwood.)
29. These seven stars seem to be the same that are used as a masonic emblem.
30. The Rainbow in Fleet Street has the reputation of being the smallest licensed house in London.
31. Cock and Pymat. Synonymous with Cock and Magpie, or Cock and Pie. Larwood also calls it Pynot.
At the Cock and Pymot, Old Whittington, Derbyshire, was plotted the Revolution of 1688 by the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, and Mr. D'Arcy. (Hone's Table Book.)
32. Pyewipe--a local name for the peewit.
33. A house much adorned by artists.
34. A famous carrier's inn, whence passengers and goods were dispatched to the North.
The ceremony of nicking the Royal and Corporation swans on the Thames still continues.
35. A fine brand of hops used to be imported from Würtemburg.
36. Best known as a landmark in the University boat race.
37. Said to derive its sign from Queen Elizabeth having sheltered there. Called in parish books of 1586 'The Queen's Tree.' (Larwood.)
38. Larwood states that this sign is very rare. He gives it the epithet of gloomy, referring to Psalm cxxxvii. 2.
39. Probably alludes to the Druids.
40. From Virginia came the first tobacco brought into England.
41. The best known Tabard was that inn in Southwark whence Chaucer and his party started for Canterbury. The tabard, a sleeveless jacket, still worn by heralds.
42. Does this refer to the thirsty reputation of cobblers?
43. Cravat. Derived from Croats. Introduced into France 1636. (Brewer.)
44. A sign of great antiquity. It is found in 1562, and was probably originally a tobacconist's sign.
The Calves Head Club met at the Black Boy, Newgate Street. Variations of the sign are the Arab Boy, East Sheen; the Black Boys, Aylsham.
45. Stow mentions a Black Bell in Fish Street Hill.
46. This may refer to some ghostly hound.
47. This inn is extinct. The name is a variant of leather bottle.
48. The Black Lion appears in the arms of Queen Philippa, Consort of Edward III. Also borne by Owen Glendower.
49. The badge of Richard II.
In the garden of this house is the old sign that used to be in Piccadilly on site of the present Criterion.
50. The White Horse in Kensington was frequented by Addison.
51. This house figures in the adventures of Mr. Pickwick.
52. Badge of Edward IV.