Above photo, 1935.

Above photo, 2008 by Steve Thoroughgood.

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Above sign, April 1994.

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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.