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Sort file:- Northfleet, June, 2025.

Page Updated:- Monday, 23 June, 2025.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1871

(Name from)

 Little Wonder

Closed 1966

78-79 High Street

Northfleet

https://whatpub.com/little-wonder-northfleet

Little Wonder

Above photo, date unknown, showing the original pub.
Little Wonder

Above photo, circa 1915.
Little Wonder

Above photos, circa 1915. Kindly supplied by John Hopperton.
Little Wonder 1920s

Above photo, circa 1920s.
Little Wonder 1920s

Above photo, circa 1920s.
Little Wonder 1965

Above photo, circa 1965, showing the pub on the left.

 

Originally being built on the site of an earlier pub known as the "Good Intent." Between 1866 and 1871 this was trading under the name of the "Tiger's Head" and subsequently as the "Little Wonder," the latter name deriving from the winner of the 1840 Derby.

After the death of Thomas Waters in 1885, his widow, Emma, married Henry Prior who was the next licensee. Emma was the daughter of William and Ann Carter who was the licensee of the "British Tar."

The pub appears to have been demolished and rebuilt during the reign of Henry Prior around 1900. Henry Prior having married the widow of Thomas Waters after his death.

Russell & Gravesend Brewery were taken over by Truman in 1930 and they finally closed the pub in 1966.

 

The building has since been demolished again and the site is now part of The Hive housing estate.

 

From the Southeastern Gazette, 24 July 1866.

Assault by a Beer-house Keeper.

At the Police Court, on Monday, Charles Dyke, landlord of the “Little Wonder” beer-house, Northfleet, was charged with having violently assaulted Joseph Eastaby. The prosecutor was taking some refreshment, with some friends at the “King’s Head” public-house, Northfleet, when the prisoner came in in a very excited state, and expressed his intention of murdering some one. On being remonstrated with he flew at the prosecutor and kicked him in a dangerous part of his body, and also struck and kicked another person in the room. The magistrates characterised the conduct of the prisoner as disgraceful in the extreme, and as he had on a previous occasion been convicted at that court of assault he would now pay a fine of £5, and in default sand committed for two months’ hard labour.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

DYKE Charles 1866+

HOMEWOOD George 1871+ (also pensioner age 48 in 1871Census)

RUSSELL John 1872 (owner, West Street Brewery, Gravesend)

RAYFIELD Charles George 1872+

WATERS Thomas 1881-85 dec'd

PRYOR Henry Joseph 1891-1913+ (age 32 in 1891Census)

PILBEAM Thomas J 1918-33+

HORSNELL Edwin John 1938+

TURNER Peter & Barbara 1961-66

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