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11 Station Road (Albion Road 1854) (North Kent Terrace 1866)
Woolwich
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Kentish Mercury, Saturday 11 December 1852.
Freemasons Tavern, Woolwich.
Opposite the dockyard station of the North Kent Railway.
This Tavern was built during the last 12 months for the present
Proprietor, for the purpose of supplying a want severely felt by Railway
Passengers to Woolwich.
A wine and spirit licence was granted upon the first application, and
the Tavern is now opened. Visitors to Woolwich, upon business or
pleasure, will find the "Freemasons Tavern" a most convenient house to
stop at, it being within 3 minutes walk of the Royal Dockyard, and about
5 minutes from the Barracks and Repository. It is immediately opposite
the Station, and the Proprietor pledges himself that every attention and
dispatch shall be used in providing refreshments, to enable passengers
to be accommodated when their time is limited. The Proprietor
respectfully solicits a trial of what the house can produce; his object
will be to characterize it for cleanliness, comfort, and civility. All
articles will be supplied at the lowest renumerating charges.
Sir. H. Meux and Co's celebrated double stout on Draught.
Families may depend upon their orders for wines and spirits been
promptly attended to.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 4 August,
1855.
POLICE COURT. Monday.
John Williams, an artilleryman, was fined £3, or two months
imprisonment, for being drunk and breaking a square of plate-glass
at the "Freemason's Tavern," opposite the dockyard station of the
North Kent Railway.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 26 April 1862.
Suicide of Mr. Missing. The Inquest.
An inquest was held on Saturday at the "Freemasons’ Tavern,"
Woolwich, on the body of Mr. Missing, of Blackheath, who committed
suicide by shooting himself in the Railway Tunnel, Blackheath. It
was elicited that Messrs. F. Wade, 208, Old-street, St. Luke’s, and
Johnson Brook, of Blackheath, were the other inmates of the
carriage. Mr. John Benjamin, music-seller, Birmingham, and Mr. Henry
Tolkien, pianoforte maker, King William-street, City,
brothers-in-law to the deceased, stated that Missing was agent to
Hailing, Pearce, and Stone, of Oxford-street, who had recently
withdrawn their stock entrusted to him to sell, and consequently the
shop had been closed; but that subsequently they had agreed to
advance him £400 to re-commence business. A letter was found on
deceased, thanking them for their noble conduct, and concluding
thus:— "My brain wastes, so that I shall be in an asylum or with my
God to-morrow." A letter was also found returning £50, which Mr.
Benjamin had sent him towards re-commencing business.
A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
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South Eastern Gazette Tuesday 10 January 1865.
BLACKHEATH. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT
RAILWAY. (Click
for details)
On Tuesday afternoon, C. J. Carttar, Esq., one of the coroners for West
Kent, held an adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending the
deaths of Edward Allum, John Cullen, and Joseph Hunt, all in the employ
of the South Eastern Railway Company, who lost their lives from injuries
received by the frightful collision of Friday, the 12th ult.
The jury
first assembled at the "Freemasons' Tavern, Woolwich, when it was
determined to adjourn to the Royal Marine Hospital, for the purpose of
taking the deposition of Randall, the breakman of the ballast train. The
court having reassembled at the hospital, Randall was sworn, and stated
that at the time of the accident he was quite certain the lamps attached
to his break were lighted. He did not, when the train came to a stop,
ask any of the platelayers for a Lucifer, and did not hear any other
person ask for one. No person asked witness for a light. When the train
came to a stop he heard some person call out, "Put the break on," but he
did not know the voice. Lancaster, the guard on the train, did not come
back to him just before the collision, and tell him to put the break on.
Some person called out, "Tom, put the break on;" but he could not tell
who it was. The tunnel at the time was full of dense smoke. In reply to
other questions the witness stated that when the collision took place he
fell off the break on to the six-foot way, and his life was thus saved,
as he escaped with three of his toes being cut off. The enquiry was then
again adjourned for a fortnight.
(Further
Coroners
Report)
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LICENSEE LIST
READ Henry Sept/1854+
DE GREY Henry 1866-81+ (age 59 in 1881 )
BRENT Thomas 1891+ (age 44 in 1891)
HIRST Rowland 1896+
COOPER Charles 1901+ (divorced age 31 in 1901)
RUSSELL Charles Thomas 1904+
HIRST Rowland 1908+
HOBDEN David Frank Edward 1911+
RIDGLEY Alice Miss 1919+
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