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The Hog In The Pound was situated at 28 South Molton Street. This pub was closed and demolished in 2011.

The original building dates back to at least 1792, where its address was variously 373 Oxford Street, 294 Oxford Street and 294b Oxford Street and was located at the corner of Oxford Street and South Molton Street. Demolished in 1959 and re-sited and rebuilt in 1963 when it was owned by Watney, Combe & Reid. Eighteen-year-old Edward Oxford (1822–1900), the first of seven would-be assassins of Queen Victoria during her reign, worked at the Hog-in-the-Pound (all references from the time had the name hyphenated) and had just quit his job as pot-boy there when he attempted to assassinate the Queen at Constitution Hill near Buckingham Palace on the afternoon of 10th June 1840. Acquitted by a jury who declared him to be not guilty by 'reasons of insanity', Oxford was committed to Bethlem Asylum where he remained for the next 24 years. He was transferred to Broadmoor Hospital in 1867 and three years later was released on the condition that he emigrate to the colonies. He sailed for Australia, landing in Melbourne in 1868 where he lived out the rest of his life under the alias John Freeman.

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Name	Dates	Comments
Vincent Borlaugh	c2000 to closure	This site is now occupied by the Bosideng men's shop. I vacation in London every year and used to pop by there for a nightcap on the way back to my hotel - the street-level portion was relatively small but had a lot of tables outside which were nice even in December. Sad to see it go - especially in a neighbourhood like the Oxford street shopping corridor that doesn't have a lot of pubs.