Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the Elephant and Castle tavern in south London.

1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 265: Come, Lummy, let us toddle to the Pig and Tinder-box.
1822		Tom and Jerry; A Musical Extravaganza II iv: I brought her to the pig an tinder-box.
1829		Bell’s Life in London 7 June 3/2: The Elephant and Castle, or, as that celebrated Inn was [...] called ‘The Pig and Tinder-box’.
1836		Newry Teleg. 7 Apr. 2/2: [from Bentley’s Misc.] Myself observed a wheelbarrow [...] entering the yard of the Pig and Tinder-box.
1845		Wolverham;ton Chron. 10 Dec. 3/6: This specimen of English literature, which you will oblige me by forwarding to Mr Richard Roe’s, at the sign of the ‘Pig-and-Tinder-box’.
1855		Kentish Mercury 10 Nov. 4/3: Meetings held at the Pig and Tinderbox.
1860		London City Press 18 Aug. 5/2: One kite flew from Kingsland-gate to the Pig-and-Tinder-box.
1864		London City Press 17 Sept. 4: There are many good orators of the stump class at the ‘Pig and Tinder-box’ to proclaim abroad irs vurtues.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1888		Canterbury Jrnl 10 Mar. 3/6: Thus too, the George Canning has been changed into the George and Cannon [...] and the Elephant and Castle into the pig and Tinder-box.
1922		Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 17 Aug. 5/5: Among many other curious corruptions were The Pig and Tinder-box (Elephant and Castle).