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PUB LIST | PUBLIC HOUSES | Paul Skelton | ||||||||||||
Earliest ???? |
Black Lion |
Open 2020+ |
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Ash Road Hartley 01474 702134 https://whatpub.com/black-lion
The premises was built between 1688 and 1698 by Edward Best and has been a pub since 1731 when Richard Glover (1680-1748) purchased, and opened the first licensed victualler in the village. He with his father William were already publicans - they had leased a pub called the "Black Lion" in Fawkham in 1707, but at present I have no information regarding this one. Francis sold the pub to Robert Monk in the 1790s who sold it on to Hussey Fleet from the Dartford Fleet Brewery family. In 1865 the brewery was put up for auction. The freehold eventually came to the Dartford Brewery, which was closed down and demolished in the 1930s when it was taken over by Courage. Licensee Charles English (1913-33) drove a horse and grocery van, and was named “the midnight grocer” because of the time of some of his deliveries! A plan of the pub in 1914 shows the grocery shop at the southern end and a store room at the opposite end with a sitting room, tap room, private bar, scullery and kitchen in between. As well as a pub, the "Black Lion" was for a long time the village shop. The "Black Lion" used to have Hartley's oldest letter box, which was put in the front wall between 1882 and 1899. Sadly this was stolen in 2015. This was a tied " It is rumoured that Daniel Defoe lived in part of this inn and is reputed to have written "Robinson Crusoe" in the back room over the wash house. Henry Treadwell was one of several generations of his family to run the pub in addition to being a local farmer.
LICENSEE LIST GLOVER Richard 1731-1748 GLOVER Francis 1748-1797 TREADWELL John 1797-1836 TREADWELL William (also farmer) 1836-1852 (age 65 in 1841) TREADWELL Rhoda (daughter) 1852-1865 TREADWELL Henry 1864+ COOPER Henry 1864-1877 (Rhoda's nephew also shopkeeper) WANSBURY George Charles 1877-1907 (age 45 in 1891) WANSBURY Emily 1907-1913 (George's widow) FIGG Frederick C 1918+ ENGLISH John 1916+ ? ENGLISH Charles 1913-1933 COX Frank Lionel 1933-40 KITTO Edward Arthur 1940-1954 CLARK George 1954-1955 HOLLAND Cyril P 1955-1964 ANTWISS Ronald Arthur 1964-1974 FRANKLAND John D 1997-2020+ https://pubwiki.co.uk/BlackLion.shtml
From Melville's Directory 1858 From the Post Office Directory 1874 From the Kelly's Directory 1903 From the Post Office Directory 1918 From the Post Office Directory 1922 From the Post Office Directory 1938 Census
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