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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton & Jim Packer

Earliest 1783

 Leather Bottle

Closed 2015

 

Erith

 

Jim Packer author of the "Lost Pubs of Bexley" says the pub was acquired by Messrs Tasker brewers of Dartford in 1783. The building was put pp for sale 2015 demolished June 2016.

 

From The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, July 07, 1880; pg. 3; Issue 17461.

THE MURDER AT ERITH.

At the Maidstone Assizes yesterday, a carpenter, named Berry, was tried before Mr. Baron Pollock for the murder of a woman, named Adams, who was stabbed by the prisoner nine or ten times with a chisel at the "Leather Bottle Tavern," Erith. Berry was found guilty on the capital charge and sentenced to death.

 

LICENSEE LIST

WATT Richard 1841+ (age 60 in 1841Census)

BULL William 1851-61+ (age 59 in 1861Census)

RUSHTON John 1891+ Census

 

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