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To err is human, and all that. I do like it when readers point out inaccuracies on my website. Mostly readers are polite, though I have had a few comments from some who were rather less genteel.

Some time ago I received an email from one of my readers (because there was no comment box; hopefully I have rectified that) about Horse and Dolphin Yard. Rather than paraphrase, allow me to reprint what my helpful reader wrote to me:

“Just to let you know that the Horse and Dolphin pub that was on the site of DeHems on Macclesfield Street in Chinatown was not the pub owned by Bill Richmond. That was a different pub of the same name on nearby St Martin’s Street, the old boxing neighbourhood, and which someone else has mentioned in a comment. It was demolished in (I think) the 60s to make way for the extension to the National Gallery.

“DeHems did used to claim Bill Richmond as theirs, and even had prints and memorabilia inside, but a 2016 biography clarified that Richmond had no connection with that pub. They do seem to have discreetly removed the memorabilia at some point… On the plus side, the Tom Cribb pub on Panton Street, nearer to where Richmond’s own pub was, has a plaque for him.”

So there you have it. According to the Tom Cribb pub mentioned above, the bare-knuckle boxers Cribb and Richmond were, at various times, collaborators, rivals, and friends.

That’s the correction. The update? That will be another post to follow shortly before I lose momentum.