93 Chislehurst Road
Orpington
01689 812648
https://whatpub.com/cricketers
Above photo, circa 1912, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, date unknown. |
Above photo, circa 1927, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. The swing sign
proclaiming that the Cricketers was serving Noakes' Windsor Ales. Noakes'
Black Eagle Brewery, Bermondsey, dated back to the end of the 17th
century but in 1923, they took over Canning and Sons' Royal Brewery,
Windsor. Noakes' Black Eagle Brewery was then closed and all production
was transferred to Windsor. |
Above photo, circa 2017. |
Above photo 2017. |
Above sign left, 1996, sign right 2017.
With thanks from Roger Pester
www.innsignsociety.com
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Licensee John Jennings was involved in a huge crash outside the "Red
Lion" in Handcross, West Sussex in 1906, in which many people were
killed and injured.
Full details here.
Will of Richard GALLIERS 1875.
7 August.
The Will of Richard Galliers late of the "Cricketers Inn" in the
Parish of Orpington in the County of Kent. Innkeeper who died 26 June
1875 at the "Cricketers" was proved at the principle Registry by George
Giles of Green-street Green in the Parish of Farnborough in the said
County Accountant one of the Executors.
Effects under £800.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 20 March 1902.
BROMLEY POLICE COURT.
Robert Wilson, of the "Cricketers," Orpington, was fined £5 and costs
for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises. Mrs. Tullett, of the "Horse and Groom," Sidcup, was fined 20s and costs
for a like offence. In neither case was the license endorsed. |
LICENSEE LIST
GALLIERS Richard 1874-26/June/1875 dec'd (also land surveyor)
FREW Uriah 1881+ (age 60 in 1881)
MEAD George Henry 1891-1901+ (age 52 in 1901)
WILSON Robert 1902-03+
JENNINGS John 1906-38+ (age 45 in 1911)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/CricketersInn.shtml
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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