Maple Road

Dartford

Another as yet unknown one from Rory Kehoe.

Maple Road, Dartford c.1900. Crowley's Fine Ales - This was a Croydon brewery. There is a Maple Road in Dartford, quite a long one but no indication of there ever having been any pubs on it. In itself that's surprising.

A handwritten note on the back of the card says Kent - Dartford. I wonder if it's not Dartford but Deptford, or somewhere else entirely.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the card was published in Croydon.

There's also a Maple Road near Croydon, in Penge, which has a pub called the "Maple Tree" but I'm pretty certain this isn't the one on this picture.

From an email received, 10 June 2019. This is the "Dew Drop" pub in Penge. If you look on your page for the "Dew Drop," you actually have a picture taken from the opposite angle, but you can see that it still has the same sign above the door as it does in this 'unknown' picture with the Christmas decorations. I have also attached a picture from Google maps of the same section of Maple road as the 'unknown' picture, and you can see that the buildings match up too, So it is definitely Penge and not Dartford. Thanks, Shaun Gardiner. Above Google image showing Maple Road, Penge.