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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1841-

Traveller's Home

Open 2020+

60-66 Long Lane

Bexley Heath

01322 525383

https://thetravellershomebexleyheath

https://whatpub.com/travellers-home

Traveller's Home 1935

Above photo, showing the new build 1935.

Travellers Home 2008

Above photo, 2008 by Steve Thoroughgood.

Above Google image, September 2015.

Traveller's Home bar 2023

Above photo, circa 2023.

Traveller's Home sign 1994

Above sign, April 1994.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

 

London Daily News. Thursday 26 August 1880.

Woolwich.

Martha Oliver, 29, married, was charged on remand, before Mr. Balguy, with stealing about £50 in gold and silver, and the bag containing it, from the "Travellers' Home Tavern," Bexleyheath.

The bag of money was missed from the table of the bar parlour on Monday night, and the prisoner, who lodged in the house, was suspected. It did not appear that she had been in the bar parlour, but her two children, aged 10 and 12 years, had been seen there during the evening.

Mr. Balguy on the first investigation, expressed a believe that the bag has been removed by the children in play or mischief, and perhaps lost, or hidden and forgotten. He directed that the house should be thoroughly searched, and it was now stated that the missing bag had been found secreted in the prisoners bed.

The landlady, Mrs. Burch, had stated her belief that the money she had lost a mounted to about £53, but all that was found in the bag was £49 16s.

The prisoner declared that she could not explain how the bag got into her bed, and, as Mrs. Burch seems content at having recovered the money, the prisoner was discharged.

 

It is said that Robert Mann and his wife Marey B Mann, both licensed hawkers were living in a travelling caravan on the site and decided to settle down and built 4 cottages and turned two of them into the pub. Hence the name. I have also been informed that this was referred to as the "Travellers Rest" in the 1970s.

Traced back to 1851, a new build was erected around 1934-35 and the two cottages next door were part of the freehold.

 

LICENSEE LIST

MANN Robert 1851+ (age 42 in 1841Census)

LAGGATT Thomas 1854+

GILBERT John 1861+

BIRCH John 1871+ (also gardener age 30 in 1871Census)

CHEESEMAN George 1881-91+ (widower age 57 in 1891Census)

HILLS Mr July 1892+ (Travellers Arms Maidstone and Kentish Journal)

HOLMES William Joseph 1901-03+ Next pub licensee had (age 37 in 1901Census) Kelly's 1903

THOMPSON Arthur 1911-13+ (age 70 in 1911Census)

STOKES 1929-33+

TOOLE 1934-59+

CLUFF W J Oct/1960+

LAMBERT G E 1961-66+

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

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

Maidstone and Kentish JournalMaidstone and Kentish Journal

 

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