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Corner of Ordnance Road and Keemor Street / 1 Fenwick Street
Woolwich
As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will
be shown here.
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referenced to the supplier.
This page will be updated as soon as further information is found.
I believe that this pub was either on the corner of the two above named
streets or was renamed between 1881 and 1891 when the address of Ordnance
Road seemed to disappear and the pub then identified as 1 Fenwick Street.
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Kentish Independent, 9 September 1865.
Harriet Turner, 40, wife of a bricklayer living at 10, Hancock
Street, Woolwich Common, was charged with creating a disturbance at the
"Perseverance Tavern," Ordnance Road.
Mr Brown, landlord of the "Perseverance" described the prisoner as a
very disagreeable neighbour, and her appearance in the dock with two
black eyes was anything but favourable. She promised amendment and was
ordered to find bail for her good behaviour for three months.
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From an email received 11 October 2019.
I was born in 1932 some 40 yards from the "Perseverance" at 13 Fenwick St.
I was a
typical London urchin stealing from local shops with my gang.
My memory
records the pub clearly. To the right hand side were two large tall yard
doors which opened to a storage yard where empty beer bottles awaited a
weekly brewery collection. Now it so happened the licensee paid 1 penny for every
bottle returned. We kids raided the yard at night and sold then back to
the publican claiming our parents had bought them. Nice little earner
for us.
Outside on Sunday lunchtime there was large wheelbarrow selling
cockles shrimps and winkles for Sunday evening tea.
The area has demolished and the streets have all vanished If you have
access to photographs of the old Woolwich Common or plans of the street
plans I would be obliged to hear from you.
W. H. REEVES.
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From an email received 28 December 2024. I lived very close to the pub
(in Ritter Street) in the 1950s and 1960s. The pub was not in Fenwick
Street - it was on the corner of Ordnance Road and Keemor Street. The
yard gates mentioned were in Keemor Street. In Ordnance Road next to the
pub was a bomb site facing Woolwich Common.
Michael Canham.
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LICENSEE LIST
BROWN John 1865-66+
KIRK Richard 1874+
KIRK Elizabeth 1881-82+ (widow age 52 in 1881 )
MARTIN Jacob A 1891-96+ (age 50 in 1891)
MATTOCK William 1901-11+ (age 48 in 1901)
MATTOCK Annie Miss 1938+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/PerseveranceFenwick.shtml
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Perseverance.shtml
Census
Kentish
Independent
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