[118] At a bazaar held in the Portman Rooms, Baker Street, in 1887 (Nov. 22–26), for the benefit of the charities of Marylebone Church, an ingenious reproduction was attempted, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Harris, the architect, of the latticed alcoves, lamp-hung trees, &c., of the old Marybone Gardens (see _A Booke of ye olde Marybone Gardens_, 1887 (sold at the bazaar); _Daily Telegraph_ for 23 November, 1887). [119] An account of the robbery and murder in 1808 of Mr. William Joachim in the Marylebone Fields mentions that he was on his way home to Lisson Grove, after a visit to the Jew’s Harp Tavern to see the skittle-playing (F. Miller’s _St. Pancras_, p. 238). [120] Wheatley, _London Past and Present_, s.v. “Yorkshire Stingo,” states on the authority of Cooke’s _Old London Bridge_, p. 7, that a bridge designed by the celebrated Thomas Paine, being the second cast-iron bridge ever constructed, was brought to London in 1790 and set up in the bowling-green of the Yorkshire Stingo; it was afterwards taken back to Rotherham (where it had been made in 1789) and broken up in 1791. [121] _The Picture of London_, 1802, p. 370, mentions the Yorkshire Stingo as a house many years celebrated for rustic sports on May Day. [122] Newspaper cuttings in W. Coll.; cp. Hollingshead’s _My Lifetime_, i. 24, and _see also_ Stuart and Park, _The Variety Stage_, p. 38, who mention Cave and Glindon as the comic vocalists. The saloon, which was in the rear of the tavern, had a small but capable orchestra directed by Love, afterwards leader at the Princess’s Theatre under Charles Kean. Miss Tunstall of Vauxhall was at one time a singer there. [123] Pulled down about 1895. [124] Woodward’s _Eccentric Excursions_, p. 18. [125] Before 1702. [126] _The Country Journal, or the Craftsman_, 7 March, 1729–30. If an allusion in a pamphlet of 1735--_A seasonable examination of the pleas and pretensions of ... Playhouses erected in defiance of Royal Licence_ (London, printed for T. Cooper, 1735)--may be relied on, Pancras Wells had about that time some kind of (unlicensed) theatrical or “variety” entertainments resembling those of Sadler’s Wells. [127] According to Roffe (_St. Pancras_), Pancras Wells occupied the south side of Church Hill from its base to its summit. Palmer in his _St. Pancras_, published in 1870, says the Well “is now enclosed in the garden of a private house, neglected and passed out of mind.” [128] It is shown in the bird’s-eye view of Pancras Wells of 1730. In April 1731, James Dalton, a notorious footpad, robbed a linenpedlar at night near the Adam and Eve after drinking with him at the tavern (Pinks’s _Clerkenwell_, p. 549). [129] _The Connoisseur_, 1754, No. 26. [130] Five of these pier-glasses were stolen from the long room in 1778 (_London Evening Post_, 11–14 July, 1778). [131] Advertisement of 1786 quoted in Clinch’s _Marylebone and St. Pancras_, p. 157.