OLD LOYAL BRITON Pub of Greenwich

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Greenwich, February, 2024.

Page Updated:- Thursday, 29 February, 2024.

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Paul Skelton

Earliest Oct 2013

(Name from)

Old Loyal Britons

Oct 2014

Bulldozed 2019

62 Thames Street

Greenwich

Above photo, 1938. Kindly sent by Paul Holmes.

Above photo, circa 2014, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

This was described as being a beerhouse in the Kentish Mercury of 1881. If indeed it was the same house that later became the "Loyal Briton." I say this as there appeared to be differently named licensees in that year at the "Loyal Briton."

The Old Loyal Briton, 62 Thames Street in 1891 and in many telephone directories from 1927 onwards. This pub next became the "SE10," only to be reverted to this name again in 2014 before finally being bulldozed in 2018.

Rory Kehoe informs me that just after Francis Chichester single-handedly circumnavigated the globe in 1966 in his yacht Gypsy Moth IV, the pub was temporarily changed to the "Lone Sailor." Be nice to know if it was shown in the signage. So if anyone has a photo, I'd be interested. (Just found.)

On 15th October 2014 it was reported that the pub was boarded up and the occupiers evicted due to not paying any rent. The bailiffs having been sent in.

2018 saw it replaced with 2, 3 and 4 bedroom flats, which to me are probably very nice inside but just looks like a big concrete block with little or no architecture interest at all.