ROYAL ALBERT Pub of Greenwich

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Greenwich, October, 2025.

Page Updated:- Friday, 31 October, 2025.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Royal Albert

Closed 2000ish

78 Blackheath Road

Greenwich

Above photo circa 1900. From Anchor Magazine April 1947 (Barclay Perkins brewery magazine)

Above photo 1947. From Anchor Magazine April 1947 (Barclay Perkins brewery magazine)

Above photo, 1972.

Above photo, date unknown by True Londoner.

Above Google image June 2012.

Above Google image May 2015.

Above Google image, July 2017.

The pub closed, around about the 2000s and has gone through as series or transformations as different restaurants over the time, it being the Embassy in 2012, the Z'bra in 2015 and the D'Luxx from November 2015 onwards.

David Wotherspoon tells me he used to drink there at the end of the 80s and early 90s and says the pub became very youth orientated at the time with disco's and DJ's at the weekend, when it got very crowded, but a visit in 1998 saw it very much quieter.

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 6 September, 1856.

APPLICATIONS FOR SPIRIT LICENSES.

The following applications will be made for licenses at the Special Sessions to be holden on the 25th day of September, inst.:—

Greenwich.

Malster; "Gloucester Coffee House;"

"Robin Hood and Little John;"

"Banshee;"

"Ravensbourne Arms;" (Lewisham)

"Royal Albert;"

"British Oak;"

and "Royal William."

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. Lewis appeared on behalf of Mr. Chillman Avery, "Royal Albert," Blackheath road, and Mr. Bristow opposed. License refused.

LICENSEE LIST

AVERY Chilman 1854-56+

MURRIN Josiah Murrin 1871+ (also carpenter age 50 in 1871)

WOOD Charles 1881+ (age 38 in 1881)

SILK Thomas E 1891+ (also clerk age 52 in 1891)

https://pubwiki.co.uk/RoyalAlbert.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/royalalbert.html

Census

West Kent Guardian

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