"George-street is just by the Princess of Wales"Still a little vague, but it all adds to narrowing the location down.
You would generally expect a pub to be on a corner, but thinking more about it, it often is not the case. If The Princess of Wales was on the corner you might expect them to have said this in the Old Bailey account.
However there is this which looks like it knocks my theory about it not being on a corner on the head:
"she ran in at the corner door of the public-house; I went in at another door in Wentworth-street; one man ran out past me, and the prisoner followed him"This does imply it is on a corner ... I think.
There is mention of some ground behind the pub:
"Hanley took him at the Princess of Wales, (behind which is the ground we took the prosecutrix to"
Looking at Horwood there is a rather large open area (courtyard style) behind the buildings facing Wentworth and surrounding streets. Presumably this is 'the ground' referred to in the Old Bailey document.
The entire area north of Wentworth Street, sadly, appears to be a mixture of 60s and 90s new builds - even the street layouts have been changed quite a lot (I think George St has gone), and there are definitely no pubs there today. There is something opposite The Princess Alice which may have been a pub but both architecture and location is wrong I think.
Aren't the old maps amazing to look at - smallholdings and open land in central London?
