STAR INN Pub of Plumstead

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Plumstead, April, 2023.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 11 April, 2023.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Star Inn

Open 2020+

158 Plumstead Common Road

Plumstead

020 8316 7141

Above postcard, circa 1910.

Above card, circa 1910.

Above photo, 2014.

Above photo, 2015.

Above photo showing the painting on the garden wall, 2015.

Above photo 29 April 2016, by kind permission Chris Mansfield. http://www.chrismansfieldphotos.com/

Above photo January 2017, by kind permission Chris Mansfield. http://www.chrismansfieldphotos.com/

Above Google image, June 2019.

Above Google image, June 2019.

This is one of the pubs in the area that is known as the "Five Idlers."

The poem that goes with the story is as follows:-

The Star which doesn't shine in the sky,

The Woodman who doesn't cut down trees,

The Ship that cannot sail the seas,

The Mill which doesn't grind corn,

Kentish Independent 18 June 1870.

BLACKHEATH PETTY SESSIONS.

Croom's Hill, Saturday, Before Colonel Farnall, C.B.; B. Cooke, B. Poulter, K. Routh, J. Penn, M. W. Adame, and J. H. Young, Esqs.

Transfer of Spirit Licenses. The following public-houses were transferred.

Plumstead.
The "Star," from P. C. Wren, to D. W. Moynahan.

LICENSEE LIST

WREN P C to June/1870

MOYNAHAN Daniel Walter June/1870-74+

GODFREY George H 1881+ (age 46 in 1881)

FLETCHER William 1891-1921+ (age 30 in 1891)

HERITAGE George Fras 1944+

Census

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