DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Sunday, 21 November, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1881-

Black Lion

Latest 1949+

The Street

Mereworth

Black Lion

Above postcard date unknown showing the pub just to the left of the white house left of the church. Kindly sent by Trevor Sidley.

Black Lion Whitbread sign 1949Black Lion card 1949

Above aluminium card issued May 1949. Sign series 1 number 25.

Former Black Lion 2021

Above Google image, April 2021.

 

As far as I am aware the premises only ever held a beer license and closed either in the 1950s or just before.

It is now (2021) known as Black Lion House.

 

Kent Courier 8th May 8th 1925.

Licensing Business.

The licence of the "Black Lion," Mereworth, was transferred from Ernest Cronk to James W. Taylor.

 

Kent Courier 6th September 1929.

Licensing Business.

The Bench approved of the following full transfers; "Black Lion," Mereworth, from James William Taylor to Walter Thomas Castle.

 

From an email received 20 January 2019.

Thought you might be interested in this Victorian quart judge. We brought it with us to New Zealand in 2002, but ever since I can remember my mother used it as a flower vase.

I like it.

Best,

Jim Kennard.

Black Lion pewter mug.

Above showing the pewter tankard.

Kite mark

Showing kite mark Crown CR352.

Date 1905

Above showing the date of 1905.

From an email received, 17 November 2021.

Good day,

I recently bought a lot of silver at auction and this was one of the items. I googled it and see where it’s from.

This made its way to the isolated arid Karoo of the Northern Cape, South Africa.

Take care. Pieter Hoffman.

Black Lion Pewter Mug 1905

Above mug circa 1905.

Black Lion Pewter Mug 1905

Black Lion Pewter Mug circa 1905.

Black Lion Pewter Mug 1905

Black Lion Pewter Mug showing Hallmark VR352, 1905.

 

LICENSEE LIST

FRANCIS James Frances 1881+ (also Carpenter age 65 in 1881Census)

FOSTER Henry 1891+ (age 46 in 1891Census)

HUGGETT Richard 1918+

KIRBY Thomas 1922+

CRONK Ernest to May./1925

TAYLOR James William May/1925-Sept/29

CASTLE Walter Thomas Sept/1929+

SMITH Horace John Smith 1938+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/BlackLion.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/blacklion.html

 

CensusCensus

 

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