Hi Karen and Lyn, I built a response to this hours ago but when I hit send my PC broke and my Outbox was corrupted. I've been going round in circles cursing Microsoft's helpful help files ever since!! I am now on my ISP's web-mail facility which is very basic!! My filing will be even more out of control! George Yard was a very small narrow street, or more like a lane/alley, which ran off to the west from the Borough High Street in Southwark a little north of Sr George's church. There is no visible open space although perhaps there was once. It is shown, along with several other George Yards in London, on my Regency London A-Z which is based on Richard Horwood's map of 1799-1817. It has disappeared in my 'thoroughly modern' 1960s A-Z. The Borough High Street runs more or less SSW from the southern end of London Bridge. Newington Causeway on the other hand is not shown by that name on my Regency map but is on the 1960s A-Z. It is a continuation of the Borough High Street from a bit SSW of St George's Church and runs down to the Elephant and Castle. It would have been just a short walk along the main street from No 10 Newington Causeway to George Yard. Now if I hadn't dropped my Chambers's Dictionary onto the scanner when the lid was up, I could have scanned the appropriate page from my Regencey A-Z! :-( Something tells me it's rime I got that new PC I've been promising myself!! Cheers, Liz, who may be absent for a while sorting herself out... Quoting Lyn Boothman <annys@boothman27.fsnet.co.uk>: > Karen, > > He must have lived or had his business premises in the 'yard' of an inn > called the George in Southwark, or in an area called that which had > previously been the yard of the the inn. The yard in this case could be > quite a large area with stabling and outbuildings. As James was a > carrier this was the London end of his business, so he ran wagons or > whatever from Surrey to the George. > > Lyn B >