The Plough Tavern

Reason for inclusion: A candidate for ‘The Alpha Inn’, frequented by Henry Baker. The landlord of The Alpha’ supplied him with a goose.

Accessibility: Normal pub opening hours.

Comments: Meets the description of ‘a small public house at the corner of one of the streets which run down into Holborn’ and is close to the British Museum. Preferred candidate for The Alpha by Bernard Davies due to a contemporary author of Conan Doyle’s, Alfred Gardiner, using the pseudonym ‘Alpha of the Plough’.