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The Prince Of Wales was situated at 351 Harrow Road. This pub closed by the police in October 2014 due to 'serious incidents' it is now used as a branch of Costa Coffee.

In the 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners, written by Samuel Selvon, anty Bessy asks a policeman standing outside a pub for directions on how to reach Great Portland Street: ‘though she see plenty people that she could ask she ignore them and look for a policeman. She didn’t see one till she reach by the Prince of Wales.’

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