DUKE OF EDINBURGH Pub of Bexley

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Bexley, June, 2024.

Page Updated:- Monday, 24 June, 2024.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1869

Duke of Edinburgh

Closed 1995

46 Broadway

Bexley Heath

Above photo, 1927 showing Arthur W Hadley outside.

Above photo 1939.

Above photo, 1951.

Above photo, 1980s.

Above photo, date unknown.

Built in 1869 by Kidd's of Dartford and originally trading as an off-license.

The site of the "Duke of Edinburgh" and the cottages beyond now houses Bexleyheath's 9-screen cinema the bingo complex, car parks and restaurants.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 17 March 1891.

Licensing.

A protection order was granted to Edmund West, to sell at the "Duke of Edinburgh" beer house, Bexley Heath, he having taken the house of the executives of the late John West.

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 27 January 1891.

LICENSING.

On the application of Mr. Ridley, a protection order to carry on the business of the "Duke of Edinburgh," Bexley Heath, was granted to Frank George Straker, till the next transfer day, in succession of the late George West.

LICENSEE LIST

WAITE Alfred 1881+ (age 34 in 1881)

WEST Edmund "George" 1891+ (age 52 in 1891)

STRAKER Frank George Jan/1891+

SUMMERFIELD Thomas July/1894+

JONES John 1901+ (age 47 in 1901)

WESTCOTT James 1913+

HADLEY Arthur W 1927+

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Census

Bromley and District Times

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