DUKE'S HEAD Pub of Bromley

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Sort file:- Bromley, June, 2025.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 04 June, 2025.

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Earliest 1832-

Duke's Head

Closed 1993-

32 Market Square / 133 High Street (Middle Row 1861)

Bromley

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Above postcard, circa 1900, kindly sent by Brinley Hawkins.

Above photo, date unknown also showing the "Forester" and just seen the "Duke's Head" two doors to the left.

Above photo same shot as above.

Above postcard, date unknown, also showing the "Forester" and "Rose and Crown."

Above photo, date unknown, showing the "Duke's Head," centre and the "Rose and Crown" to the left.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown by Darkstar.

Above photo 2017.

At present the only reference to this pub has been from Pigot's directory, which unfortunately didn't give an address other than Bromley. It was situated a few doors from the "Forester." Further research says it was at 32 Market Square. (Later 36)

In 1869-70 the pub was part of a consortium who were advertising their goods of selling tea in response to grocers' selling beer and wine. (Click for further details.)

South Eastern Gazette 4 August 1835.

DIED.

Lately, at Bromley, Mr. Matthias Cordery, of the "Duke's Head," aged 77 years, much respected.

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 2 December 1862.

Bromley. Distress in Lancashire.

A preliminary meeting was held at the "Duke's Head Inn," Bromley, on Monday evening, to take steps for calling a public meeting, and to appoint a committee to raise subscriptions in aid of the distressed operatives in the manufacturing districts. The attendance was very small, and it was resolved to adjourn the meeting for a week.

From the Southeastern Gazette, 27 March 1866.

Petty Sessions, Monday. (Before G. W. Norma, Esq., in the chair, R. B. Berens, and W. Waring, Esqrs.)

Thomas Riggs and John Knight, in the employ of William T. Kelsey, coal and corn merchant at Bromley, were charged with stealing, on the 3rd and 6th inst., ten coal sacks, value £2 10s., the property of the Cray Ceal Company. Mr. Harry Tyrer, agent to the company, prosecuted. Mark Drew, in the employ of Thomas Jackson, woodbroker, at Cudham, proved having bought the sacks from the prisoners, for his master, who paid Knight for them at the “Duke’s Head” public-house, Bromley. The prisoners had been taken into custody by Sergeant Grey, and the sacks were produced and identified. They were committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.

The pub closed, and was turned into a Northern Rock outlet in 1993, and now (2019) Virgin Money.

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CORDERY Matthias 1832-Aug/35 dec'd