A vaulted hall of a bar, a snooker table in an bleakly-lit adjacent room, a small stage bedecked with tinsel, ready for whatever live entertainments the landlord had corralled for the evenings punters, and a small cluster of daytime regulars. 711. S531041M Quick View from Terrace Road c1960 Ref. The name derived from St Thomas-a-Waterings, a stream and pond (roughly at the junction with Shornecliff Road). They used to serve popular Sunday roasts. I look forward to reading each installment through to Park Lane and Mayfair. The Rising Sun. 1980s: 1995 : Sovereign Inn: 26 Castle Street: 1861-1881+ Sportsman: The Lord Wellington. Demolished. The George, Keyworth St Demolished for University building 100 Medway Road: 1869-1980s+ Bright Star : 1870-1870+ Britannia: 158 High Street: 1862-Open 2020+ . While several of the buildings remain standing, only two of them in the list are still operating as pubs Lord Nelson (at No 386) and the Windsor (formerly the Prince of Windsor at No 888). The pub was known as 'The Mansfield Arms' from 1894 until 1973, 'The Regent' until 1983 and 'Blueberry's' until 1988. Earl Of Beaconsfield Demolished Bristol's Historic Inns by Helen Eason 1982 The Anglo-Saxons knew it as Watling Street; later generations knew it . Become a contributor by submitting them here. Demolished. Woolworths can be seen on the right of this picture of High Street, Strood, in October 1980 . This pub was present by the 1850s and closed in 2009. 37-39 Old Kent Road. Renowned for its regulars, the club closed its doors within the last decade. Of course Stones Bar is just one of the names it underwent during its times. It was closed when I wrote the post, so glad to hear its still going! Old Kent Road, Bricklayers Arms. Castle pub 205-209 Old Kent Road. The bar continued to operate until around 1991. (My route from home to the Old Kent Road, that is.). Fittingly, the children walk beside the pushchairs, their places usurped by sacks of coke from. The Railway Bell looked to be in a sorry state in the last months of its life, The Richmond Tavern has not long been closed, The Bar Ellie pub, which was formerly known as the Elephant and Hind. The name derived from St Thomas-a-Waterings, a stream and pond (roughly at the junction with Shornecliff Road). Liddels Brewery. Factfile: The pub was deemed an unsafe structure more than two years ago, and plans were put in place to demolish it and flatten the area behind Gillespie's. 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. 16th December 2010. It closed in 2007 and a planning application was made to change the use of the pub into four one-bedroom flats, with a first-floor extension above a flat roof area. Thanks Adrian for a very comprehensive list. Happy new year 2010! The history of Old Kent Road stretches back more than 2,000 years. 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. 623. The earliest known date was 1869. The Thomas A Becket Pub, on the Old Kent Road in South London, is a haunted place with a most incongruous connection. Another Ramsgate pub turned into a residential address is The Westgate Tavern which closed its doors for the final time in the 1970s. Demolished. Demolished. The Victorian pub that bore the name of the martyr eventually morphed into a place of homage for entirely 20th century reasons. kiwi . Gin Palace, Old Kent Rd Flats document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. It is now the Tunbridge Wells Mosque which opened in 1995. I was a fireman at Old Kent Road Fire Station in the mid 60s and tried on more than one occasion to drink in all of the pubs on one side of the road starting near the Bricklayers Arms but only ever making it as far as some- where near New Cross in a somewhat over relaxed state. You won't get many e-mails. The Half Moon. This Thomas a Becket was famous as a boxers pub, with a gym on the first floor: Henry Cooper patronised this gym, along with various sixties gangland soldiers (also James Fox, preparing for his role as Chas in Performance). Popular restaurant Luben's Pizza has since taken it over. Demolished. 82-86. It reopened as the Guinea Butt and just last year was taken over and rebranded as gastro pub the Guinea. This pub formerly on the corner of Folkestone Road and Clarendon street was a popular haunt back in the day. 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. 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Pub History Society Welcome A warm welcome to the Pub History Society (PHS) website. 222 Fore St, Enfield, London, N18 2QD. Of all the properties name-checked on the canonical (London) Monopoly board,1 only one of them lies south of the River Thames, and its the one that has seen probably the most change over the last three-quarters of a century since that game was created. The ancient property, in what was once Turn-again Lane, was rebuilt in 1901. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Frog and Nightgown, Old Kent Rd Demolished Lower Rainham Road c1900 Ref. 8-10. 135 Franklin Ave. Kent, OH 44240. Thank you for reading the blogs. Hand In Hand, Meadow Row Awaiting demolition 1 minute ago. Movement has been seen on site, but news as to what its future holds is not yet known. At the time, investigators said six drums of petrol had been ignited in the pub. 224. Yes, it has taken over six years (at three blogs a week, you work it out!) Friday night was alternative night, and it was then that they basically played the playlists from Kerrang and MTV2. 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. Thanks It is the junction of Tower Bridge Road, Old Kent Road, New Kent Road and Great Dover Street. It closed in 1940 when the licensee Frank Ashbee was killed by German shelling on his way to the pub. . Still standing, now a mosque. Prince Regent, 40 Orb Street Housing The Thistle Inn in the centre in 1866. If you don [t know have this information, it is . Wilds Rents, Wilds Rents Flats Brunswick Tavern 148-150 Old Kent Road. The Thomas Becket. The side streets are shown (at the side of the marker ===), giving a rough idea of where each pub is (or was) situated. (Given its city limits location, this crossroads was also a place of execution, especially notable for politically-motivated disembowellings under Henry VIII, killings that would have happened more-or-less where the big Tesco stands today.) A walk along The Old Kent Road today a fairly short trot between New Cross and the Bricklayers Arms roundabout is impressive by virtue of the vast contrasts in tone and scale. Demolished. But the tired interior was given a spruce up in 2016, when an out-of-town developer came in and bought the building at auction. The Dun Cow confuses me every time I walk past it (my route from home takes me around the corner there). 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