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Watling Street (Main Road 1881 )
Bexley
Above postcard, circa 1896, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. One of the bill
posters advertises a "Sculling Match - Barry vs. Arnst for £50" This was
a fortune in the late 19th century! Around a year's wages for an
unskilled worker, or someone in the lower ranks of domestic service.
Although the pub's signage advertises Russell's Gravesend Ales & Stout,
the pub may have been a free house. In later years, as the "Old
Crook Log," the pub sold Barclay, Perkin's beers, before settling
down (presumably having been bought?) as a Charrington's tied house. |
Above photo 1900. |
Above photo 1910 as the "Old
Crook Log." |
Changed name from the "Crook Log" some time in the 19th century.
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Bucks Gazette 24 September 1836.
On Monday an inquest was held at the "Nag's Head," Welling, on the body
of Sarah Taylor, aged 48, who had come by her death in a squabble with
her husband and others at a public-house called the "Fox and Hounds" at
Bexley.
It appeared that the deceased and her husband had gone into the
tap-room of the public-house in a state of intoxication. They had not
been there long before a quarrel ensued between them, and Taylor struck
deceased a heavy blow on the head, which knocked her down. He then said
"D--n you, lay there and die," and afterwards kicked her. Great
confusion followed, in the course of which the tables were overturned,
and the candles put out. Deceased got up and walked to the passage, and
then fell again. The above was the evidence of the ostler, but another
witness said he was joking with deceased, that she came and sat upon his
knee, that he moved his knee and she fell down upon the ground, she was
tipsy at the time. He added, he did not see Taylor kick his wife. The
Jury returned a verdict "that the deceased died from violence, but by
whom the injuries were inflicted there was not sufficient evidence to
determine."
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LICENSEE LIST
TURNER John 1832-41+ (age 57 in 1841)
TATE George 1851+ (age 31 in 1851)
COGGERSHALL James 1855-58+
WENDEN James 1861-71+ (age 52 in 1861)
WENDON Walter 1871+ (age 37 in 1871)
HARVEY George 1881-82+
 (age 55 in 1881)
Census
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