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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1832-

Coach and Horses

Closed 2017

35 North Cray Road

Bexley

https://whatpub.com/coach-horses

Coach and Horses

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Matthew Minch.

Coach and Horses 1930

Above postcard, 1930. The pub can just be seen on the right by the telegraph pole.

Coach and Horses 1967

Above photo, 1967. Kindly sent by Matthew Minch.

Coach and Horses 1974

Above photo, 1974.

Coach and Horses 2006

Above photo, 2006 by Steve Thoroughgood.

Coach and Horses 2008

Above Google image, September 2008.

Coach and Horses 2014

Above Google image, October 2014.

 

Established in the 18th century, from 1875 it was a Beasley house and from 1978 an Allied one. Since 1999 it has belonged to Punch Taverns.

Unfortunately closed some around 2017 when planning permission was acquired to turn into 6 flats, this was accomplished  by June 2019.

 

South Eastern Gazette, 17 April, 1860.

Petty Sessions, Monday. (Before Western Wood, Esq., chairman, Oswald Smith and H. Johnston, Esqrs.)

William Mitchell, a labourer, at Bexley-heath, pleaded guilty to assaulting James Wendon, the landlord of the "Coach and Horses" public-house at Bexley, on the 1st inst., and also to assaulting James Brown, a servant at the same house, and was fined £1 for each assault, with costs.

 

From the https://www.bexleytimes.co.uk 1 August 2017 by Luke May.

Coach and Horses pub to become home to six apartments after council meeting.

Plans were approved on Thursday night.

A final plea to protect a Bexley pub from transforming into flats fell on deaf ears as approval was given by councillors last week.

Plans to turn the Coach and Horses pub into six apartments went to planning councillors on Thursday night, having already been earmarked for approval and receiving the backing of residents.

The borough’s branch of the Campaign for Real Ale had tried to protect the North Cray Road pub last year, when it first heard rumours of potential development, by applying to add the pub’s name to the list of assets of community value in the borough.

But the application was knocked back after the pub proved unpopular compared to nearby competition.

Council documents explained: “The pub trades poorly. The vast majority of local residents and visitors prefer to frequent the five pubs and numerous restaurants more centrally located in Bexley Village, just a short distance away.”

In a last bid to stop the conversion, Bexley Camra put in a formal objection to the proposal, but a unanimous vote saw plans for a two-storey extension and housing conversion given, subject to conditions which include retaining the site’s signage and meeting standards for parking and cycling provision.

The apartments will be split between four one-bedroom and two two-bedroom flats with seven parking spaces provided.

Ian Wright from Bexley Camra said: “All pub’s are important, just because people are not visiting now is no excuse to close it down.

“You only need to look at the "George and Dragon" in Swanscombe, it was a run-down pub three years ago, but new owners came in and now it is a thriving business with a large array of real ales.

“It’s sad to see another pub go, thankfully we don’t know of any other pubs at risk around the borough.”

Between 2002 and 2016, Bexley lost five of its pubs and bars, including The "Old Wick" in 2011, representing the smallest number of closures across the capital.

Landlord of 13 years Tony Stowell said he had no date planned for the pub’s closure.

The 54-year-old said: “A few weeks ago we only ordered in two barrels, it’s ridiculous but there’s no point buying in beer just for it to go off.

“Things were great when I started, but then there was the smoking ban and the recession, people have changed the way they drink now, I used to see the same people maybe four times a week, now I’m lucky if it’s once a month.

“I think I’m ready to slow down and start this new chapter turning it into apartments.”

 

From the https://www.newsshopper.co.uk By Conor Shields, 30th November 2018.

Burst water pipe at the Coach & Horses pub in Bexleyheath causing delays.

Drivers in Bexleyheath are experiencing lengthy delays to their journeys as repairs to a burst water pipe in North Cray Road are carried out.

Social media users have posted on the Bexleyheath News & Gossip Facebook page that they are experiencing long traffic jams, with one user noting it added around 40 minutes to his journey, due to a manually operated two-way traffic light system set up while works are ongoing.

The lights are said to be operating on the roundabout near the now closed Coach & Horses pub next to Vicarage Road.

A council spokeswoman said these lights will be manually operated from 7am until 7pm and that all queries regarding this should be directed to Thames Water.

A spokesman for Thames Water apologised for any inconvenience caused by the works, explaining repairs are being made to a four-inch diameter pipe and that the traffic lights were set up to ensure that staff can work safely.

He also said these works are estimated to be finished by December 12 but are pushing to finish sooner.

 

LICENSEE LIST

EDWARDS Samuel 1832+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

WENDON James 1860+

WHITING Mary Ann 1861+ (age 41 in 1891Census)

GREEN John Stephen to Dec/1890 Maidstone and Kentish Journal

CHANT Robert Dec/1890+ Maidstone and Kentish Journal

RADCLIFFE Thomas 1903+ Kelly's 1903

 

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Maidstone and Kentish JournalMaidstone and Kentish Journal

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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