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Existed from at least 1790. This pub was known as the Ship from at least 1851 and was renamed 'Williams' in around 1980. The address is at 24 Artillery lane by at least the 1911 census. **
Williams Wine & Ale House, 22 & 24 Artillery Lane
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1790/Thomas Eve/../../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
1806/Mr Wood, Ship, Artillery lane/../../London Brewery 1806 customer for
supplying the public with genuine malt liquor
April 1827/Mrs Wood/../../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1832/D Wood, Ship, 14 Artillery lane/../../Robsons Directory
1833-34/Dinah Wood/../../../Pigots Directory
1839/Dinah Wood/../../../Pigots Directory
1841/Mrs Dinah Wood/../../../P.O. Directory **
1842/Mrs Dinah Wood/../../../Robsons Directory
1844/Mrs D Wood/../../../Post Office Directory
1845/J T Glazier/../../../Post Office Directory
July 1849/William Robins/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
July 1849/William Gibson/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
In the
1841 census, Samuel East is the victualler at the
Crown &
Sceptre, 22 Old Change.
1851/Samuel East/../../../Kellys Directory
1851/Harriet East/Publican/62/Suffolk/Census *
1851/William R Piper/Servant/44/Surrey/Census
Harriet's husband Samuel was in the Debtor's Prison in Whitecross Street. In
his bankruptcy hearing of 9 Jan 1852 Samuel was cited as having been of “The
Ship”, Artillery Lane. *
In the 1851 census, listed in the District Debtors Prison, Whitecross
Street, St Giles Cripplegate, is :
Samuel East, prisoner, married, 61, licensed victualler, Lavenham Suffolk
1852/George Prentice/../../../Watkin’s Directory **
In 1853, James Samuel Williams, Inn Keeper, aged 26, of 13 & 14 Artillery
lane marries Elizabeth Harris Barth, aged 20, at St Boto0lph Bishopsgate
1854/James S Williams/../../../Post Office Directory
1856/James Sam Williams/../../../Post Office Directory
1861/James Samuel Williams/Licensed Victualler/34/London/Census
1861/Eliz Williams/Wife/27/London/Census
1861/Frances George Williams/Son/1/London/Census
1861/Anna Maria Williams/Mother/67/London/Census
1861/George Cornwall/Barman/22/Isleham, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/William Laraham/Barman/32/Shoreditch/Census
1861/Robert Catlin/Barman/19/Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Fanny Knightsbridge/House Servant/21/Moulson, Essex/Census
1869/Jas Samuel Williams & Son/Wine Merchant/../../Post Office Directory
1874/J S Williams/Ship, Artillery lane/../../Licensed Victualler & Hotelier Directory
1877/James Samuel Williams & Son/Wine Merchant/../../Post Office Directory
1881/William H Sneth/Licensed Victualler/28/Bletchley, Buckingham/Census
1881/Sarah M Sneth/Wife/25/Clerkenwell, Middlesex/Census
1881/George Sneth/Brother, Barman/22/Bletchley, Buckingham/Census
1881/Henry White/Barman/18/Sutton, Surrey/Census
1881/Charles Wiggins/Barman/18/Sydenham, Kent/Census
1882/James, Samuel Williams & Son/Wine Merchants/../../Post Office Directory
1889/James Williams & Son, wine merchants, 14 Artillery lane/../../Post
Office Directory
In the 1911 census, James Williams, a wine & spirit merchant, aged 84, is
living at a private address with an extended family at 11 Springfield, Upper
Clapton, Hackney; and in 1891 he is already at a private address at 39 Downs
road, Hackney
1914, James Samuel Williams of 14 Artillery lane Bishopsgate street London
and 26 Stanhope road Highgate Middlesex died 15 March 1914 at 26 Stanhope
road Probate London 8 April to Annie Williams widow. Effects £24635 14s 2d.
1930/James Samuel Williams & Son, wine merchants, 22 & 24 Artillery lane
E1/../../Post
Office Directory
1936/Levy & Franks Ltd, The Ship, 22 & 24 Artillery lane E1/../../Post Office Directory
1940/Henry J Hicks, Ship, 22 & 24 Artillery lane E1/../../Post Office Directory
1944/Rt Fras Borrow, Ship, 22 & 24 Artillery lane E1/../../Post Office Directory
1983/../Williams, 22 & 24 Artillery lane E1 : Whitbreads. Used to be called 'The Ship'. Recreated Georgian style wine & ale pub with beamed ceiling and wall/../../Pub Directory
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