The Crown and Horse Shoes Inn, Enfield Chase Side.
The above represents one of the humble and wayside “Pubs” of the neighbourhood in which Charles Lamb is said to have tested the friendship of “fine” friends, by proposing to them a drink of unsophisticated porter from bright pewter pots. So did he treat Wordsworth, and that “Child of Nature” actress, Miss Frances Maria Kelly, who without hesitation entered the tavern, with:—
| “The whitewash’d wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish’d clock that click’d behind the door, The chest contriv’d a double debt to pay,— A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.” |
About the Midsummer of 1833, Charles Lamb and his sister removed to Bay-cottage, Church-street, Edmonton, kept by Mr. Walden, whose wife acted as a professional nurse. There, in that poor melancholy looking tenement, the delightful humourist found the home in which he breathed his last on Saturday, the 27th December, 1834. He was buried in:—
| “Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days!.” Byron’s, Beppo. St. 80. |
House at Edmonton Where Charles Lamb Died.
