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

Duke of Edinburgh 1927

Above photo, 1927 showing Arthur W Hadley outside.
Duke of Edinburgh 1939

Above photo 1939.
Duke of Edinburgh 1951

Above photo, 1951.
Duke of Edinburgh 1980s

Above photo, 1980s.
Duke of Edinburgh

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 1881Census)

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

STRAKER Frank George Jan/1891+

SUMMERFIELD Thomas July/1894+ Bromley and District Times

JONES John 1901+ (age 47 in 1901Census)

WESTCOTT James 1913+

HADLEY Arthur W 1927+

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