SWISS COTTAGE TAVERN Pubs of Sydenham

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sydenham, March, 2025.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

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Earliest 1854-

Swiss Cottage Tavern

Latest 1980s

(Name to)

149 Stanstead Road

Sydenham

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The West Kent Guardian of 1854 stated this was situated near Forest Hill. I have also seen this addressed as Lewisham and also Forest Hill.

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 19 January, 1856.

TRANSFER OF LICENSES.

PETTY SESSIONS — CROOMS HILL. Saturday, Jan. 12.

Present — T. Lewin, Esq. (in the chair), Major Gossett, Alderman Engleton, Coles Child, and J. Sutton, Esqrs.

Lewisham.

"Swiss Cottage," West Kent park, Sydenham, Nathaniel Willmore to William James Legge.

Sydenham Times, 22 July 1862.

Charles Meacher, residing at 4, Prospect-cottages, West-Kent Park, was charged at the Greenwich Police Court, before D. Maude, Esq., on Wednesday, 16th inst., with knowingly tendering a counterfeit half-crown at Mr. Darke's, "Swiss Cottage Tavern," West Kent Park, Forest Hill.

The accused, in his defence, stated that on the previous evening he changed a sovereign at Mr. Darke’s house, and among the silver was the counterfeit half-crown, and he considered he had a right to pass it from whence he took it, and accordingly tendered it at the bar where he received it.

The accused, who is respectably connected and received an excellent character from his master, was bound over to appear on Wednesday next.

After being refused planning permission for demolition the pub suddenly caught fire and flats replaced the building in 1992.

LICENSEE LIST

WILMORE Nathaniel Sept/1854-12/Jan/1856