bronze plaque · London

Alexander Pope

The Site of the Toy Inn An ancient Hostelry of Note Built for Oliver Cromwell's Troops c, 1650 rebuilt c. 1700, demolished c. 1840, wherein Pope wrote the Rape of the Lock; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV, formed & presided over his Toy Club; and Thomas Dunckerley founded the Masonic Lodge of Harmony 255 in 1785. The Lodge held here for 37 years, now erects this Tablet July 1933

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