Peggy and Pru – King Street
King Street, Westminster · a molly pub in the shadow of the Abbey
King Street ran down towards Westminster Abbey roughly on the line of today’s Parliament Street – the pin marks its course, not a surviving door. Here Robert Whale and York Horner, known in the subculture as Peggy and Pru, kept what the historian Rictor Norton calls a molly pub rather than a full molly house: an ordinary tavern whose regulars happened to be mollies. It is a reminder that this world was woven into the everyday streets of Georgian London – a few hundred yards from the government that was hanging its members.