Above picture, date unknown, kindly sent by Shaun Gardiner.

Above photo, circa 2008, by Andy Johnson.

Above photo 2013 by Chris Whippet Creative Commons Licence.

Above Google image, 2015.

From an unknown book.

The name comes from the Ingress Estate across London Road. Ingryce Manor was granted by Edward II in 1353 ‘to the Priory and Abbey of Dartford for ever’. Henry VIII put a stop to that. This Victorian building, with brick ovens in the cellar, replaced an earlier inn set back from the road in a cherry orchard. Trading by 1865, the Ingress was a Kidd’s house by 1874. The brewery leased at first, from owner Geoffrey Thomas Austin; they paid £700 for the freehold in 1886, by which time it was a fully licensed Public House. The property was subject to a life annuity of £12 to Caroline Hanna Brown, presumably descended from a former owner. From 1915 long-serving landlord A Ludlow was paying £35 rent per year, plus £1 as half the cost of emptying cess-pool. In 1931 his rent soared to £55.