Walter
Horseman lived next to the Old Chapel in Trafalgar Place, Kentish Town Road. This area was known
to flood when the River Fleet, which flowed beside Pancras Road, overran its banks. He
lived on the west side of Kentish Town Road, because we are told
that Joseph Rickards was hanged opposite the house where he committed the
murder. A sketch of the hanging is shown in plate 25
of King’s panorama of London.
Four doors
away was the Jolly Angler, an ale house kept by Sarah Rose, which was often
referred to as the Anglers. When the Vestry met there in 1721, it was called
the Compleat Angler. A lane beside it ran down to a favourite fishing spot on
the River Fleet. The Jolly Angler was destroyed by fire in 1820.
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