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The inn at Barnet where Oliver stops off is not
named, but 'we believe he had in mind the Red Lion' (Matz, p.22.
Matz incorporates a photograph of the place, so possibly extant).
The Angel Islington.
Extant.
The Coach and Horses Isleworth
(Dickensian, vol.1, p.261)
The Eight Bells Hatfield. This
is the alehouse where Sikes stays when leaving London, although
it is not named in the novel.
It was nine o'clock at night, when the man, quite tired out,
and the dog, limping and lame from the unaccustomed exercise,
turned down the hill by the church of the quiet village, and plodding
along the little street, crept into a small public-house, whose
scanty light had guided them to the spot. There was a fire in
the tap-room, and some country-labourers were drinking before
it. They made room for the stranger, but he sat down in the farthest
corner, and ate and drank alone, or rather with his dog, to whom
he cast a morsel of food from time to time.
The George Inn
The Red Lion Barnet.
Extant.
The Three Cripples Bill
Sykes's pub. Fictional/generic.
In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest
part of Little Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring
gas-light burn all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of
sun ever shone in the summer: there sat, brooding over a little
pewter measure and a small glass, strongly impregnated with the
smell of liquor, a man in a velveteen coat, drab shorts, half-boots,
and stockings, who even by that dim light no experienced agent
of police would have hesitated for one instant to recognize as
Mr William Sikes.
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