|
Fisher Lane / Church Street
Greenwich
I am hoping that Fisher Lane and Church Street refer to one and the same
pub, else there have been two with this name.
|
From the West Kent Guardian, 31 October 1840.
Sales by auction. Postponement of sale.
Valuable freehold property, Greenwich, which will be sold by auction by
Messrs John and Thomas Fry, at Garraway's Coffee House, Change Alley,
Cornhill, on Thursday, November 19th, 1840, at 12 o'clock (unless
previously disposed of by private contract,) the following very
desirable freehold property, in one lot, viz. The "White Horse" public
house, Fisher Lane, Greenwich, with large yard, skittle ground, &c. and
three tenements in the rear thereof, fronting Stable Yard Street. Also,
two brick built houses, and large shed in Fisher Lane, occupying a
frontage of 45 feet, next the river, with a depth of 200 feet.
The public house being one of the old school, is unpretending in
appearance, but the site it occupies, together with the river frontage
and the premises in the rear, would suggest to a spirited purchaser, the
possibility of building Tavern of no small pretensions, with (what is of
great importance in the neighbourhood) Stabling, Coach House, &c.,
approached from Stable Yard Street.
May be viewed (by permission of the tenants,) and particulars, with a
plan, obtained of Mr. Cartter, Solicitor, Blue Stile, Greenwich, and of
the Auctioneers, 43, Chiswell Street, Finsbury Square, and 3, Thornton
Road, Greenwich.
|
|
From The Era, Sunday, Oct., 5, 1851; Issue 680.
LICENSE TRANSFERS. GREENWICH.
Harding, "White Horse," Church-street, Greenwich. The applicant in
person said he had been asked for spirits by seventy - three persons in
one day. - License refused.
|
|
From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 27 September, 1856.
TRANSFER OF LICENCES. Sept 25.
Present - Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart., chairman; General Angerstein,
Captain Hossett, Al;derman Eagleton, T. Lewin, Esq., J. Sutton,
Esq., and Coles Chile, Esq.
This being the annual licensing day for the hundreds of Blackheath,
and Little and Lessness, there was an unusually large attendance of
applicants for spirit licences, numbering 60; of which Greenwich
numbered 9; Saint Nicholas, Deptford, 1; Saint Paul, Deptford, 6;
Lewisham, 4; Lee, 1; Charlton, 1; Woolwich, 20; and Plumstead, 14.
Greenwich.
Mr. Carttar appeared to support the application of Benjamin Harding,
"White Horse," Church street. Licence refused.
|
|
|
I believe this premises was demolishes by 1863 as it doesn't appear on
the 1863 map of the area.
Jacqueline Davies kindly writes to me who says she is interested in 17th
century Greenwich and has been doing research from sources including a
survey of East Greenwich Manor in a document titled "A survey of the Kings
Lordship or Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent made by Samuel
Travers 1695-97."
She kindly sends me the following information:- White Horse Alley
probably named after a pub?
If indeed the alley was named after the pub of the same name, at present
I am not sure where White Horse Alley was and if this pub is the same.
LICENSEE LIST
SLANEY Richard 1823+
SLANEY Elizabeth 1826-34+
TAYLOR Ebenezer 1840+
BUSBY William 1841+ (age 25 in 1841 )
GURLEY W to Nov/47 dec'd
GURLEY Mary Ann (widow) Nov/1847+
HARDING Benjamin 1851-56+
MAYLING Francis B 1861+ (age 50 in 1861)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/WhiteHorse.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
West Kent Guardian
|
