Above photo, 1908.

Above photo, 1961.

Above photo, 10pm, 11th September 1967.

Above photo 2006 by Dave Patten Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo outside the "Fox" circa 1950.

Above matchbox circa 1980s.

Sporting Life 03 January 1866.

This day (Wednesday), at Jesse Stapley's, "Fox Inn," Belvedere, Kent, a fat hog will be shot for, value £7, by fourteen members, at 10s. each, seven pigeons each. H and T traps, to be handicapped from 21 to 18 yards. Mr. Hammond will be on the ground with a good supply of the best blue rocks. Sweepstakes to follow the above. Jesse Stapley's "Fox Inn," Belvedere, is ten minutes walk from the station. Dinner will be provided after the shooting. Shooting to commence at twelve o'clock.

From the https://www.newsshopper.co.uk 4th April 2018.

Shooting in Belvedere's The Fox Pub during Anthony Joshua fight.

Police are investigating after shots were fired in a Belvedere pub over the Easter weekend.

Panic ensued on the evening of Saturday, March 31, when punters reported how someone barged into The Fox in Nuxley Road and opened fire with a gun.

A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed: “Police were called at approximately 22.43hrs on Saturday, March 31 to reports of a firearm being discharged at a property on Nuxley Road.

“Officers attended. An expended ammunition casing was recovered at the scene."

He added that no injuries were reported and so far no arrests have been made.

One shaken pubgoer took to Twitter and commented: “Shots fired in Fox Pub in Belvedere tonight.

“Pub was packed because of the boxing. Armed police in attendance.”

The account claimed “two men in balaclavas” came into the pub and started shooting.

It added: “Such a frightening world.”

News Shopper contacted The Fox for further information but a member of staff declined to comment.

Enquiries are ongoing.

Information below taken from their web site accessed 23 June 2020.

The Fox Pub Belvedere.

This tavern known by the name and sign of the Fox was built in the 4th year of George IV, in 1824. Though the original structure of the building has, at different intervals of time, undergone alterations, particularly during the latter years of Victoria.

When first built the property was a wheeling house with stables and a parcel of land. It was owned by a prominent farmer and wheelwright who it would appear conducted this latter from the property. The family of Stapley had been and were for many years to follow prominent farmers of Belvedere parish.

Mathew Stapley resided here with his wife Rebecca and nine children and throughout his time here is recorded as a wheelwright and Rebecca Stapley, a harness maker. However in 1831, he obtained a beer house licence under the terms of the 1830 beer act which enabled any householder of reputable character to obtain a licence to sell beer from a house or tenement of rateable value, by merely paying the small sum of two guineas to the excise, thereby avoiding the necessity of applying or being presented to Magistrates, who had no control over these beer houses and frowned upon the act, for many of them chose their own of trading, whereby some were open all night long.

And so in November 1831, Mathew Stapley having obtained his excise licence, opened the door of his house to the beer buying public for the first time. He called the house the “Fox Beer House”, and he gained the title of wheelwright and beer retailer. Prior to this the Stapley’s had owned a beer house nearby in Bexley Road, which was run by Nathaniel Stapley, brother of Mathew, which they sold in 1830. The “Fox Beer House” continued to thrive, as did Mathew Stapley’s wheelwrights shop, which he continued to operate as well as run the house.

In 1849, Stapley applied for and was granted a wine and spirits licence by Magistrates, who were eager to encourage holders of beer house licences to accept full licences so they that could gain control over them. The “Fox” became a registered tavern. Mathew Stapley kept it until his death in 1850, where after it passed, by the terms of his will to his eldest son Jesse, a farmer of Belvedere. By this date the stables belonging to the property had been enlarged to accommodate between ten and fifteen horses, for during his time here, Jesse Stapley advertised then as hait (feeding) stables, and himself as a tavern and livery keeper.

Jesse Stapley kept the “Fox” until his death in 1867, where after his widow Charlotte Elizabeth inherited the house. By this date the farming family of Stapley had obtained more land and merged with Josias Hood, to become “Stapley and Hood”, farmers of Belvedere. Charlotte Stapley kept the “Fox” and sold groceries from it as well ales and liquors, until 1888. For many years ales had been supplied by the Barclay, Perkins & Co. London stout and porter Brewery, through agent William Seabrook a wine merchant of Belvedere. In that year of 1888, Charlotte Stapley sold the “Fox’ to the brewery and they installed one Samson Roberts into the house as a tenant.

The address of the “Fox” at this date was still Bexley Road, by 1894 when Samson Roberts handed over to William Ely, it changed to Bedonwell Hill. Ely kept the “Fox” until 1898, when he handed over to George Cade and he in 1907 to Alfred Charles Miller. At the outbreak of World War 1 he was conscripted and replaced here by Herbert Breeching, who was here for the duration of the war until 1921, (Post office Directory says 1918) when he was succeeded by Arthur Hearn and he in 1929 by Walter Webb, who remained for many years to follow.

Barclay Perkins eventually sold out to the Courage Brewery who are the present owners of the “Fox” which since 1967.