A comprehensive list of pubs in Canterbury, Kent. /* 468x60, created 25/01/09 */ The name derived from St Thomas-a-Waterings, a stream and pond (roughly at the junction with Shornecliff Road). The quoted passage is from this section on the Old Kent Road. The site is now home to the Big Boys Fine Burger Co restaurant in the ever-popular Old High Street. However, its sizable presence along with The Green Man (Walworth SE1) and The Dun Cow (Bermondsey SE1), demonstrates well the former prominence of public houses in this part of London. Bars Taverns Brew Pubs. In January 1980, five new episodes of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were broadcast on BBC Radio, all in one week, bringing the total number to twelve episodes. It closed in 1968 and was demolished in 1970. DOVER KENT ARCHIVES. It was demolished in 1952 and most recently replaced with a Co-op foodstore. Previous articles from the Folkestone Herald suggests it was an instrumental part of the community feel in the Folkestone East area, with meat raffles on Sundays. The old Shepherd Neame-owned building was renovated and vacated between 2008 and 2009. I will amend the page. Pub History Society Welcome A warm welcome to the Pub History Society (PHS) website. Earl Of Beaconsfield Demolished LOG IN. Gloucester Arms, 24 Mason Street Flats This was the club for people who like a night filled with alternative, heavy and classic tunes. Further alterations and extensions followed in 1983. The White Lion pub has sat derelict for more than a decade (Image: Google Maps) Location:Cheriton Road, Cheriton Factfile: This pub closed back in 2006 after a shooting in the May of that year. Ledgers in 1996 (Image: Ian Brown). The Mogul opened in 1858 and closed in 1986 after a fire. Hop Pole, Gambia St Business premises === Dunton Road=== Humphrey Street=== Rowcross Street. Furst known existence in the 1850s It closed in 2009. 849. Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. I did the same depressing walk as you down the Old Kent Road about a year ago researching and photographing the pubs for the Deadpubs website. === Trafalgar Avenue=== Glengall Road=== Malt Street. Mentioned in Pigot's Directory 1840 under "Taverns and Public Houses", The Prince of Orange presumably honoured the prince, who was reported off Dover, with five hundred ships and transports, on 3 November 1688. Hello Ewan, 12. Paula was only 41. [3] Much of the land taken up by the old railway lines through South Bermondsey has already been reclaimed for housing developments. It was later demolished. . The building looks set to finish later this year. Ironically, this building was formerly the headquarters of the local branch of the National Front. There are, in addition, a number of bars (not to mention bar/restaurants), though it can be difficult to get a sense of whether some of these are still in business, as many open late in the evenings or for occasional events only and give every appearance of not being in business (such as Virgos, Walworth SE1, or Clear Spirit Vodka Bar & Lounge, Peckham SE15). There were once so many pubs in Old Kent Road,that it was said that if you started at one end,and had a pint in each one,you couldnt get more than half way before collapsing.Sad. Marlborough Arms, Marlborough Grove Flats There was a group that performed The Magnet at the top end of the Old Kent Road (near the New Kent Road) called Bobby Worth and The Bluebeats. The Britannia. It referred to the pub, once a blacksmiths, that over time lent its name to the entire area. The earliest known date was 1869. Demolished. Theres a pub called the Windsor still open on the old Kent road just before it goes onto new cross road. A family walks past 'The World Turned Upside Down', a pub in London's World Turned Upside Down, 145 Old Kent Road, Southwark St George Martyr, London. The Windmill Tavern was located in North Street but is now a private house. 210a. google_ad_height = 250; RM 2F46AG9 - 1950s, historical, a lady standing on a gravel road at the small village of Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK, looking at distinctive wooden-framed Tudor buildings. The Prince Consort. Demolished. This pub was present by the 1850s and closed in 2009. This pub formerly on the corner of Folkestone Road and Clarendon street was a popular haunt back in the day. 'NAY-SAYERS' since 1999 Hotels near St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Shoreham on Tripadvisor: Find traveller reviews, 570 candid photos, and prices for 1,770 hotels near St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Shoreham, England. Page Updated:- Monday, 09 January, 2023. The building stands on the corner of Commercial Way. Neptune, Neptune Street Gone For lists of pubs by postcode area, visit my London Pubology site. Most of my Thursdays as a youth, ended at The Gin Palace. New Concorde, Webster Road Flats Houses in Canterbury Road c1960 Ref. Your email address will not be published. Ballard again. The Downs Tavern in Culverden Down had been selling alcohol since the 1900s. Here, occupying a remote. Metropolitan Police officer is accused of assaulting a suspect by pepper-spraying him while he was clinging to a drainpipe on a 15-storey building, a court has heard. (At my current pace, this should take me a few years at least, though some of the locations may not require particularly substantial entries.). 2. Thanks Adrian for a very comprehensive list. Prince of Wales, Lant St Demolished Since the pub closed a decade or so ago the building has been variously an estate agents premises, an art gallery and its current iteration is as a Vietnamese restaurant possibly a very good Vietnamese restaurant, I cannot say, but it is a pity that this pub, of all pubs, is no more. It has since been converted to flats, The White Lion pub has sat derelict for more than a decade, The Happy Frenchman in Christ Church road has seen many incarnations in its 160 year history. The two remaining pubs are The Lord Nelson (Walworth SE1, fig. 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The 'Enerey', The 'Thomas' and the Frog (had a great lock in there once), were all occasional haunts of mine back in the 80's. There was another pub just off the New Cross end of the OKR, near the New Cross fire station, that was run by a couple of old ladies. 386, and The Windsor at No. It could get a bit noisy, but never as bad as the riot in May 1853, when there was fighting on all floors of the pub. Factfile:Not everyone will remember Tofts, after it reportedly closed its doors in the 1980s. Demolished. The Walmer Castle was welcoming customers way back in 1729, although research indicates it was known before then as the Hare and Hounds.. Like its neighbour, the Walmer Castle, it used to open around four in the morning and this continued at least until 1900. The quirky layout has a slide connecting two of its floors. Still standing, now a doctors surgery. [Beer house and brewery.] The fire was treated as arson but no-one was ever brought to justice. The rare and beautiful Licensed Victuallers Almshouses (1827) still graces Asylum Road, even if it is now offset by a supermarket car park, and unexpected oases of genteel villas and terraces form tributaries off the churning thoroughfare. Does anyone know what the name was? This is the rather sad sight of the 'The Vic' pub that greets you as you leave the station. Duke of Kent 365 Old Kent Road. This pub first opened in 1861 and was sadly closed over a decade later in 1989. The Montague is still alive and well in New Cross. I used to wander around this store as a lad and have fond memories. I'm going for sunday lunch there in a couple of weeks. Gin Palace, Old Kent Rd Flats London Places. 64-66. Britannia: 154 Tooley Street. Factfile: The Trafalgar used to be at 48 Royal Road but is said to have closed in the early 1970s and was converted into a house ever since. But change was in the air back in 2010 when approval was granted to get rid of the bar for it to be replaced with offices to rent. The Thomas a Becket premises occupies a site associated with an ancient hostelry, St. Thomas Waterings, which catered to the needs of pilgrims setting off for Canterbury; it was the first stop on the way out of London and is referenced by Chaucer. The pub had been closed on several occasions, but after again opening in 2005, advertising that it was "probably the best pub in Dover" the pub finally closed in 2006. Prince of Windsor pub 888 Old Kent Road. The name derived from St Thomas-a-Waterings, a stream and pond (roughly at the junction with Shornecliff Road). Now, in its place is a multi-storey of modern space for businesses, with Josh De Haan's company View London being the anchor tenant. Since Roman times, the road has been the primary route between London and the Kent coast. Despite being on the market for nearly two years some flats took longer than others to sell. Factfile:The pub remains largelyderelictto this day, with old posters advertising a circus show at nearby Radnor Park on the windows. Swan and Sugarloaf, Parkers Row Flats [5] The six volumes are available on the British History website. Your email address will not be published. Demolished. Still trading. Former names Windsor, Prince of Wales, Prince of Saxe Coburg. Green Man Pub Gone Days Walworth London History Camberwell St Albans New Roads tollgates at the Green Man Pub, Old Kent Road c.1865. The Gem Bar & Restaurant (formerly The Canterbury Arms). Thomas a Becket pub - 320-322 Old Kent Road. On the one hand you have the residue of the massive gasworks, the acrid colours of the retail sheds, relics of failed residential developments (especially The Aylesbury Estate, which looms like an abandoned supertanker above the artificial water meadows of Burgess Park), the yawning dual-carriageway and the endless stream of traffic thereon yet there are occasional bright spots amidst the post-industrial wastes. A comprehensive list of pubs in Gillingham, Kent. For many years the OKR was a place I engaged with on a daily basis, as I either lived near it or utilised it as a means of driving to and from town. Somehow it disappeared from my sidebar. never did find out the name of that pub..anyone? Just to say, the Thomas a Becket hosts a Vietnamese restaurant, not Thai. Woolworths can be seen on the right of this picture of High Street, Strood, in October 1980 . This is despite the fact the building is Grade II listed, and has been since February 1988. Tweets that mention Monopoly: The Pubs of Old Kent Road Pubology -- Topsy.com, Streetlife: Old Kent Road Part 2 | Deserter, I've added a new area to my London Pubology website, SW8 (East Battersea, South Lambeth and a bit of Vauxhall), Anyway, I've been doing updates for N7 and N19, so a few more (old) pubs will have shown up on my website, I should mention I barely ever post on this account, except for updates, so if you need to contact me for some reas, It's been a while, but I've been doing some research and have now added Greenwich SE10 to my site, Just added Thornton Heath CR7 to my site, which should please (at least one of) my followers. At one point, there were 39 pubs. Location:Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells. The earliest known date was 1869. Weve found it the best resource for mapping what a massacre there has been of local pubs in the last 15 years in the North Southwark area. 610. I look forward to reading each installment through to Park Lane and Mayfair. In 1968 there was a pub in the Old Kent Road that had a staircase in the actual pub. 68) [see update below], around halfway down, and The Breffni Arms (Peckham SE15, fig. Corporeally, Chippenham and Penge. Dagenham 1 : 21120 This rough field sketch, or 'foul' copy, was produced on several pieces of irregularly cut paper joined together and laid on the verso of the triangulation map for southern England. Information about the park is taken from Andrew Crowe, The Parks and Woodlands of London (1987), pp. Demolished. Like this site? Although the company liquidated in 1991, there are a handful of independently owned stores left around the United States. It is understood the pub closed in 2012 and it is not known what the future holds for the premises. Covering the north side of the Thames, East Ham and Ilford are to the left, and Rainham to the right. On May the 10th and 11th 1941 the Elephant and Castle suffered heavy attacks in the Blitz. 1898 Thomas a Becket pub rebuilt. Also, we lived around the corner to the Lord Raglan in Raglan Passage, corner of Cronin Road, SE15, where my Grandad had a fish n chip shop.. 224. Become a contributor by submitting them here. The Hole In The Wall in the High Street was a popular watering hole in the town from the 1960s to the 1980s. 276-280. Factfile: This boozer closed its doors nearly 40 years ago in the early 1980s but was officially listed as a Grade II in 1988. I know its not on the Old Kent Road but my uncles, cousins, brother and my dad all took me to the Adam and Eve in Peckham one Sunday lunchtime when I was 14, to watch the strippers. The pub was rebuilt after the Second World War. Dun Cow, Old Kent Rd Doctors London Pubs. Something went wrong, please try again later. Not only this, the rising cost of a pint is said to have forced many people to buy their drink from an off licence or the supermarket - drinking it at home. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Home > London > SE1: Southwark & Yes, it has taken over six years (at three blogs a week, you work it out!) Needless to say, youve done a much better job with the camera than I managed. It was commonly known beforehand as Mustang Sally's. I've put them into some basic categories. Raven, Tower Bridge Road -Flats The first recorded use of the name "Elephant and Castle" was in 1765. 224. The situation now seems even worse with the loss of The World Turned Upside Down (the name coming from the Diggers, via a ballard, now reworked as a folk song and part of Billy Braggs repertoire). Giraffe, 45 Penton Place To be flats. While the club started out as something a little bit different, where people would actually take part in jazz lessons, this spot is somewhat nostalgic for dozens of adults who grew up in the Sixties and 70s. The Prince Consort. Three Jolly Gardeners, Union St Flats The Elm Bar The Elm Bar True, it may look a little dark at times, but it remains resolutely open. HP10 . Dalston-type gentrification seems unlikely, but who knows? My Aunty had her wedding reception in the upstairs hall of this pub. Officers with dogs sealed off the road while the crowd was calmed and four people were arrested. (centre) landlady of the Nursery Tavern, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, celebrates her 82nd birthday in 1986. Lilliput Hall, Old Jamaica Road Flats ////google_ad_slot = "1882116331"; Pingback: Streetlife: Old Kent Road Part 2 | Deserter, How sad to see all those pubs down the old Kent road, demolished, .i really lived life in the old Kent road , such a shame. The Dead Pubs website, an excellent resource, lists 39 drinking establishments, which Ive listed in an appendix at the end for reference. The Criterion was at 8 Last Lane and was previously known as The American Stores, the Whod A Thought It and The Oxford Music Hall. Still trading. St Johns Tavern Commercial premises By the time it closed in 1983, most of the industrial works had long since moved out, leaving large tracts of bleak space, the remains of gasworks and other heavy industry, and a pall of underdevelopment.3 Efforts have been made at regeneration, of course, the most notable being the reclamation of much of the bombed land west of the Old Kent Road as a vast new open space, Burgess Park.4. The Half Moon. Figure 69. Prince Of Orange, Lower Road Flats The Dun Cow confuses me every time I walk past it (my route from home takes me around the corner there). It was a tobacco shop with an exclusive bar at the back, which at first was not signposted outside. In the past, we have written quite a bit about the number of local Elephant and Walworth pubs that have dropped like flies to be later reborn as expensive but cheaply converted flats see our Walworth page for the grisly details! Remembering the pubs in Sheffield in the 1980s. The Elephant and Hind was a drinking establishment that came about through the merger of two other neighbouring Market Square pubs the Walmer Castle and the Duchess of Kent. Become a contributor by submitting them here. Top pubs in Old Kent Road. but the 1,000th blog has finally been produced. A sad wino by choice on the cheap supermarket brands. Of course Stones Bar is just one of the names it underwent during its times. The Lord Cornwallis was located in Eridge Road. The side streets are shown (at the side of the marker ===), giving a rough idea of where each pub is (or was) situated. 9.1 miles away. The Lord Wellington. Location: Life on the ocean waves (Costa Rica). The pub closed in the late 1980s and is much missed. Order Online. Still trading. Demolished. 135 Franklin Ave. Kent, OH 44240. The 30-year-old, born in 1980, did not experience the national turmoil of the Vietnam War, grew up in an era of relative affluence, and is an avid techie. 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