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71 High Street
St Mary Cray
https://whatpub.com/black-boy
Above postcard, date unknown. |
Above drawing taken from postcard above, by Mallet. |
Above photo showing pub and wall of the police station, right. |
Above postcard, date unknown. |
Above postcard, circa 1937, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo 1974. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above Google image, September 2015, showing same location. |
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Above photo 2015. |
Above photo 2015. |
I am informed that the "Black Boy" was first mentioned in a will from
1610, and it appears to have survived by being rebuilt several times next
door to the original and then back again on more than one occasion.
The Pigot's Directory of 1832 lists this as also being the Excise Office.
Now part of Greater London, this area was indeed Kent before 1965. Hence,
I will be adding information regarding this pub as and when I find or it is
sent to me, but at present I'll be concentrating on the areas that are
within the Kent boundary today.
Your help is appreciated, and every email is answered.
I believe the pub closed in 2002 and is now operating as a bed-sit and
flats.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 21 June 1836.
To be Let.
"Black Boy Inn," St. Mary's Cray, Kent.
Eighteen miles from London.
The oldest established house in the neighbourhood, with large Garden,
Good Roomy Stabling and Capital Brewhouse attached.
Early possession may be had.
For further particulars application to be made (if by letter post-paid)
to Mr. Hayward, Solicitor, Dartford, and 13, Grays Inn-square, London;
or to Mr. Thomas Staples, Swanley, near Dartford.
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Kent Times, 15 March 1862.
SIDCUP. Petty Sessions, March 10.
Present: James Chapman, Esq. (chairman), F. M. Lewin, Esq., R. B.
Berens, Esq.
Transfer of Licenses.
At these special sessions the license of the Black Boy Inn," St. Mary Cray,
was transferred from Mr. Joseph Ayre to his son Mr. Benjamin Joseph Ayre.
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Bromley & District Times, Friday 10 March 1893.
Licensing Business.
At the Bromley Petty Sessions, on Monday, the following licensing
matters were disposed of.
Two other applications in respect of to the "Two Doves," Bromley Common
and the "Black Boy," St. Mary
Cray, were adjourned for a week.
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Bromley & District Times, Friday 31 March 1893.
The Black Boy Hotel.
Since Mr. Edmund Butler succeeded to the proprietorship of the "Black
Boy Hotel," St Mary's Cray that
well-known house has undergone great improvements. The whole front
outside has been greatly improved,
and the bar redecorated throughout. One of the principal attractions of
the hotel (which is so well placed for
large feasts and other road going parties) is the splendid long room
which will accommodate some 300
persons. Here Mr. Butler intends to erect a movable platform, which can
be adjusted at either end of the
room as circumstances render most convenient, whilst a first class piano
will be placed at the disposal of
musical parties. The stabling accommodation which is already great is to
undergo extensive improvement
and when everything is thoroughly completed Mr. Butler will be able to
boast of being the owner of one of
the most convenient houses, and, beyond doubt, the best public room in
the Cray district.
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LICENSEE LIST
SINCLAIR Duncan 1832+
AYRE Joseph 1858-Mar/62
AYRE Benjamin Joseph (son) Mar/1962+
SHARP William to Nov/1894
BUTLER Edmund 1893-96+
CLAYTON Walter 1901+ (age 52 in 1901 )
KING Henry Edward 1903+
HOBBY Thomas 1911+ (age 67 in 1911)
HOBBY Ada S Mrs 1913+
GRAY Henry George 1918-22+
TURNER George 1930+
AYRE Benjamin Joseph 1932+
TAYLOR George R 1938+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/BlackBoy.shtml
https://www.bblhs.org.uk/newpage2c5af21c
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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