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Page Updated:- Friday, 03 September, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1826-

Noah's Ark

Closed 1986+

412 (1 in 1881Census) Evelyn Street/225 Deptford High Street/1 Broomfields 1861Census

Deptford

Noah's Ark 1986

Above photo September 1986. Taken by friend of Matt Martin.

Noah's Ark

Above photo date unknown.

 

In the 1851 census the address was given as "Noah's Ark, Broomfields, St Pauls, Deptford.

The Kentish Mercury says it was a beer house under consideration for closure due to redundancy in 1908.

I am informed that the pub closed some time around 1986 and has been converted into a solicitors office.

 

Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 2 December 1825.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOV. 29.

JONES v. STROUD and WIFE.

This was an action for slanderous words spoken by Mrs. Stroud to the injury of the plaintiff's character. The plaintiff is a baker, and the defendant keeps the "Noah's Ark" public-house, in Deptford. The slanderous words were uttered by Mrs. Stroud in January, 1824. They were these:- "You, Davy Jones, have been transported for stealing wool from your master's waggon;" and "that he had been discharged by his master, being £208 short in your accounts."

The words were given as they are here written; and were read from a memorandum-book, by a witness (John Patterson, a broker), who was called for the plaintiff.

Patterson at first said, that he made the memorandum on the evening the words were spoken. On his cross-examination he admitted that he made it the morning after; but in the course of his cross-examination, it came out that this memorandum was only a copy of the original, and taken six months or a year (he could not say which) after the original was written. When asked for the original memorandum, he at first said that he gave it to the attorney in the cause, and that it was not returned. (The attorney was examined as to this fact, and positively swore that the original was returned to witness.) Witness then said he had lost it, and did not know where to find it. On being pressed by the Lord Chief Justice to produce the paper, the witness (after fumbling about in his pockets for a long time) at length stooped down in the witness-box, and picked up two bits of it, which (as he said) had fallen from him. On examining these scraps it did not appear that the words on them exactly corresponded with those already stated by the witness, nor was either a correct copy of what was set forth in the declaration.

Under these circumstances, the Lord Chief Justice directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited.

 

The Kentish Independent, Saturday 4 October 1851.

Greenwich Police Court. Saturday.

William Cressy, the man charged with the murder of J. Hastle, a policeman of the R division, at a place named Tooler-box-alley, Deptford, on the night of February 20th, 1846, was placed at the bar before Mr. Triall for further examination.

Superintendent Hilton disposed that on the previous evening he received a letter from a person in the country, who he expected will be able to identify the prisoner as connected with Deptford at the time of the murder.

The letter handed to the Magistrates was as follows:-

"St. Matthew's Square, Ipswich, Sept 24, 1851.

"Sir, - Having seen an account in the newspaper of a man having been taken up on suspicion of the murder of a policeman 5 years ago a Deptford, I will then living at the "Noah's Ark," Deptford, as barman, and after opening the house on the next morning after the murder was committed a man and woman came in, and the man spoke to me about the murder, and swore several oaths, and said it did not matter, as it was only a policeman, and it's served him right, and he heard the policeman tell the man to move on, and then they struck him. After drinking what I serve them with they left the house, and when my master got up I told him what the man said, and he said he would have him giving in charge of the police. The reason I send you this information is because I think the man spoken of his likely to be the same man now taken up on suspicion. He looked a dirty man, dressed in dark-coloured clothes. I think his height was about 5ft 6in, and the woman was a short, dirty-looking.

"William Ambrose.

"To Superintendent Hilton, Greenwich Police."

Mr. Triall:- It will be necessary to have the writer to this letter here on a future day.

The Prisoner:- When I go back to Maidstone prison, I hope you will allow me to write to my master, Mr. Burrell, at Walthamstow. I only worked for two masters in the course of two years, and the books will prove that I was only absent 3 days from the first employer when I went to the 2nd, and that I will show that I couldn't be at Deptford at the time of the murder, as is said by this jealous woman.

Mr. Triall:- The books of your masters shall be hear on a future day. I shall order that every facility be giving you in communicating with your friends. You will be brought up next Saturday, and will then have an opportunity of putting your questions to your former employers which you may think favourable to your case.

The prisoner was then removed from the bar, and on his way to the cell, having met the woman Davy, he threatened to "knife her on the first opportunity," at which she became so alarmed as to express a wish not to be brought as a witness again.

 

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Monday 4 January 1869.

Public House Attractions.

An Irishman, named Denis Mahoney, after spending Christmas Eve at the "Noah's Ark," High Street, Deptford, was loath to quit the premises. Being ejected when the house was closed at midnight, he afterwards forced open the front door, and assaulted the landlord.

In consequence he appeared before Mr. Maude, on Saturday, and was fined 20s., with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment.

 

LICENSEE LIST

JONES Davy 1825+ (also baker)

STROUD John 1826-32+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

BARLOW Edward Richard 1840+

KEELEY Thomas 1848-51+ (age 35 in 1851Census)

WHITE John 1852-58+

WHITE Mary 1861+ (widow age 62 in 1861Census)

FROST John Percy Aug/1866-Nov/68

CLAPHAM John Nov/1868+

ANDREWS Harry A 1881-82+ (age 25 in 1881Census)

ANDREWS William 1891+

WINN William 1895+

CHAPMAN Robert Samuel 1899+

CHURCH Herbert 1918-21+ (age 33 in 1911Census) Kentish Mercury

EVANS Eric Richard E 1934-38+

BAKER Aug James 1944+

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

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Kentish MercuryKentish Mercury

 

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