DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Deptford, April, 2024.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 21 April, 2024.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1816-

Red Lion

Closed 1988

198 Lower Road (King Street)

St. Nicholas

Deptford

Red Lion 1880

Above photo, circa 1880s.

Red Lion 2007

Above photo circa 2007. Taken by Matt Martin.

Above photo circa 2016, by Ian Chapman.

 

I have also seen reference to another "Red Lion" addressed as Watergate Street. This one also appears to have been addressed as 72 (Old) King Street in 1857, if indeed that is the same.

The pub closed in 1988 has been converted into flats.

 

West Kent Guardian, 16 July 1836.

Charles Godfrey was charged with obtaining under false pretences the sum of £8 12s. 5 1/2d from John Mogu a coal dealer in King-street, New Town, Deptford.

It appeared that Godfrey is a pensioner in the navy and that he gave a power of attorney to Mr Edwards of the "Red Lion" Deptford, to receive his pension he, Mr. Edwards, having let him have the money previously, and then he applied to Mr. Moyce for the same purpose and filled up a fictitious power which he gave to him, and received the sum above mentioned; when Mr. Moyce attended at the navy office to receive the money he was informed that Mr Edward had just been there before him and received it, he consequently gave him into custody.

The Magistrates finding that the offence was committed in Deptford ordered the prisoner to be taken before the Magistrates there, and he was removed immediately.

 

LICENSEE LIST

EDWARDS Samuel 1826-Jan/46 dec'd Kentish Mercury

SOUTHORN William Jan/1846+ Kentish Mercury

BUDDING Henry 1847+

BUDDING Sarah Mrs 1851-Mar/57 (widow age 43 in 1851Census) (72 King Street)

EMPSON James Mar/1857-61+ (age 48 in 1861Census)

DEOR Benjamin Thompson Aug/1866+

GILBERT James 1869+

CHURCH James Job 1882+

BANKS Ben W 1884+

NYE Cordelia 1891+ (widow age 53 in 1881Census)

WARREN Charles 1895+

PEARCE Edward 1899+

RICKETT Horace L 1901+ (age 26 in 1901Census)

TURNER Charles Edward George 1910+

STONE John Thomas Sims 1911+ (also prison pensioner age 52 in 1911Census)

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