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Page Updated:- Tuesday, 29 October, 2024.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1720s

 (Ye Olde) Greyhound

Closed 2016+

86 High Street

Eltham

https://whatpub.com/greyhound

Greyhound painting 1870

Above painting by J T Wilson circa 1870.
Greyhound

Above postcard, date unknown.
Greyhound 1904

Above photo 1904. Showing workmen removing part of the roof to allow Tillings horse bus to be stabled at the rear.
Greyhound 1905

Above photo 1905.
Greyhound 1905

Above postcard, 1905.
Greyhound 1949

Above photo, circa 1949, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Greyhound 1964

Above photo, 1964.
Greyhound

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Matt Minch.
Ye Olds Greyhound 2016

Above Google image, June 2016.
Greyhound 2018

Above photo circa 2018, by Michael James.

 

The pub can be traced back to the 1720s.

Closed some time after 2016, to later become the "Yeti" Nepalese restaurant, and later still the "Playhouse."

 

Former Greyhound 2017

Above Google image, July 2017.
Former Grehound 2021

Above Google image, March 2021.

 

Kentish Gazette, 20 January 1857.

Death. Hards.

Jan. 15, suddenly, Mr. Wm. Hards, for many years the proprietor of the "Greyhound Inn," Eltham, aged 54 years.

 

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 21 August, 1858.

PETTY SESSIONS, CROOMS HILL. SATURDAY.

Present — Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart-, John Sutton, Esq. and Colonel Grant.

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

The following persons were fined, with costs, upon informations by Messrs. John and John W. Farmer, inspectors of weights and measures, Straight’s-mouth. Greenwich:—

Joseph Towers, "Greyhound Inn," Eltham, 12 measures, fined 10s.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

WICKS Mary 1832-34+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

HARDS William 1840-15/Jan/57 dec'd

TOWERS Joseph 1858+

MAGUIRE Charles Walter 1862-Aug/66+

MAGUIRE Jane Mrs 1874+

WARRINGTON William 1882+

PARSONS Edward to Nov/1890 Woolwich Gazette

ELMES Emily Nov/1890+ Woolwich Gazette

Last pub licensee had ELMS Henry 1896-1904+

ELMS Ernest Robert 1911-21+

ELMS John William 1938-70+

???? 1971

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

 

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Woolwich GazetteWoolwich Gazette

 

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