The Three Tobacco Rolls – Drury Lane
Drury Lane · a molly alehouse that left no trial record
Drury Lane – long tied to the theatre and its demi-monde – held the Three Tobacco Rolls, an alehouse kept by a candle-maker named Jones and counted by the historian Rictor Norton among the molly houses of the 1720s. It produced no prosecution, and so left no trial record; it is known only because it was remembered. For every house that ended in the dock, others simply carried on, unrecorded.