DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Bromley, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1860s

 Carpenter's Arms

Latest 1881+

(Name to)

83 Homesdale Road/Brick Kiln Lane

Bromley Common

Former Carpenter's Arms

Above photo circa 1910, showing the pub on the right. In the centre is Podger's Page Heath Laundry dating from the same period. Closing around 1920 the building has since had a variety of light industrial uses.
Carpenter's Arms 83 Homesdale Road

Above Google image, August 2015, showing 83 Homesdale Road as the house on the right. However, further research tells me the road must have been renumbered and the above photo is not the pub.

 

Originally known as Brick Kiln Lane, the arrival of first the railway in 1858 and then the gas works in 1864 made this a popular area for worker's cottages and industry.

The public house, opening in the 1860s as the "Carpenter's Arms," changed name to the "Lord Holmsdale."

The original Lord Holmesdale was Wolfe's commander at Quebec and a native of Sevenoaks, but the pub was probably named after Viscount Holmesdale, the local MP from 1859 to 1868.

The road has always been spelt without the L.

 

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, 03 September 1870.

Annual licensing day.

The licence of Mr. Goodacre, of the "Carpenter's Arms," Brick Kiln Lane, Bromley, was refused on account of bankruptcy and having no certificate.

 

LICENSEE LIST

GOODACRE William 1870-82+ Next pub licensee had (also builder age 34 in 1881Census)

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

 

CensusCensus

 

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