The name of this pub in London’s north comes from its location at the corner of Ballards Lane and the High Road, a location known as Tally Ho Corner.
While the pub only dates from 1927, the name of the corner goes back further. The story goes that it originated with the Tally Ho Coach Company, which ran coaches from London to Birmingham and which kept 16 horses in a stable on the site since the 1830s.
But there has been some doubt cast on that claim – it’s been suggested the site was too close to London to warrant a change of horses and there’s apparently little evidence of such a company.
The pub replaced the Park Road Hotel which was built the site in the 1860s. It changed hands only a few years ago and is now run by the Stonegate Pub Company.
The phrase ‘Tally Ho’ was traditionally used as a hunting call who cried it out when they sighted their quarry. It apparently became used to describe a fast coach.
For more, see www.greatukpubs.co.uk/tallyholondon.
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I worked in this pub back in 2008. It used to be JDW. I did not know the story back then. One evening I was doing wine stock up down in the basement cellar. Whilst I was there, I heard a loud crying baby noise. It was unusual because there were no babies upstairs or downstairs. It was impossible. Then I learned the story about the landlord in Victorian times had a mistress who he got pregnant. She brought the baby, when his wife saw it, she threw the baby down the basement where it died. One more thing, I used to fee unusual energy upstairs in the restaurant constantly. I felt like someone was looking at me. There was a table round the corner, it had a menu. Whenever I put the menu on it, it landed on the floor. True story believe me.