After sustaining a potentially life threatening injury in a fight with Jack Scroggins (pic), Harry HOLT retired from #Prizefighting & by January 1821 he had moved his family from #Lambeth to #Westminster to become publican of the 'Golden Cross' in Cross Lane, Long Acre.

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