The George Inn in the 1990's, it is now called Jorrocks.

Today the building still exists but only half is used as a pub, the other half is a music shop. The stables have been built on and the Assembly Rooms at the rear (where the Mercury was printed in the 19th century) no longer exists.

In the 18th century the George Inn was one of the two most important public houses in Derby (the other being the King's Head in the Cornmarket, where the Torys met). In Ward's time the George was a coaching inn where stage coaches left for London and Manchester. It was also a Post Office. The Whigs (including the town's MP Lord George Henry Cavendish) held their grand dinners there. At the back was an Assembly Hall where those who were not deemed part of the gentry held their Assemblies. The gentry held their's (the vicar of All Saints, Rev. Hope, was one of the Presidents of the Assembly) at the newly erected Assembly Rooms in the Market Place.