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The Red Lion, Holford Street in the 1860 license transfer. This road has now been renamed Holton Street. The whole area is still Victorian but the pub and a few houses around it have gone. It looks as though the pub was bombed on October 7th 1940. *
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Lion Arms, Holford Street, Mile End - circa 1934 - Landlord is Alfred J Giles
Kindly provided by, and copyright of Stuart Giles
I believe this to be The Lion Arms, Holford Street when my great grand father, Alfred J Giles, ran it.
Residents at this address.
May 1858/William Goodman/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
May 1858/Henry Pantlin/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
January 1860/Henry Pantlin/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
January 1860/Thomas Champion Reid/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
August 1860/Thomas Champion/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
August 1860/Samuel Peeling/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
July 1861/Samuel Peeling/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
July 1861/Thomas Smith/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
May 1862/Thomas Smith/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
May 1862/Charles Brookbank/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
July 1862/Charles Brook-bank/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
July 1862/Charles Frederick Fry/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
July 1863/Charles Frederick Fry/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
July 1863/William Richardson/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
November 1863/William Richardson/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
November 1863/Joseph Weston Shaw/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
November 1865/Joseph Weston Shaw/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
November 1865/James Thomas Waller/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
November 1866/James Thomas Waller/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
November 1866/David Jenkin Davies/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
4th July 1868/John Burgess/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
4th July 1868/John Sauds/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
1869/John Sands/../../../Post Office Directory
January 1870/John Sands/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
January 1870/Joseph Baring/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
July 1870/Joseph Baring/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
July 1870/Thomas Watson/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
May 1872/Thomas Watson/ Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era
May 1872/William Budd/ Incoming Licensee /../../The Era
1874/W Budd/../../../H.D. Miles London & Suburban Licensed Victuallers'
Directory **
14th July 1874/William Budd/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
14th July 1874/Arthur Mays/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
August 1874/Arthur Mays/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
August 1874/William Knighton/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
20th May 1876/William Knighton/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
20th May 1876/Albert Symes/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
January 1877/Albert Symes/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
January 1877/Benjamin Cundick/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
August 1879/William Joseph Smith/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer
August 1879/Geo Henry Willetts/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer
1881/Richard Willetts/Retired Confectioner, Widow/72/../Census
1881/George H Willetts/Son, Licensed Victualler/38/Shoreditch,
Middlesex/Census
1881/Eliza Willetts/Daughter In Law, Widow/39/Shoreditch, Middlesex/Census
1881/Eliza H Willetts/Daughter/19/Shoreditch, Middlesex/Census
1881/Richard Willetts/Son/16/Clerkenwell, Middlesex/Census
1884/George H Willetts/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/William Henry Rutterford/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Henry Samuel Moyford/../../../Post Office Directory
1901/Henry S Mogford/Licensed Victualler/40/Bloomsbury, London/Census
1901/Lydia E Mogford/Wife/42/Clerkenwell, London/Census
1901/Alfred R Mogford/Son, Printing Machine Engineer/17/Islington, London/Census
1901/Ernest H Mogford/Son, Printers Beaders Assistant/15/Islington, London/Census
1901/Ellen E Mogford/Daughter/13/Clerkenwell, London/Census
1901/Arthur E Mogford/Son/12/Islington, London/Census
1901/Ellen E Hall/Barmaid/24/Dalton in Farness, Lancs/Census
1910/Mrs Florence Lunnis Barnes/../../../Post Office Directory
1915/Colin Say/../../../Post Office Directory
1921/Roy Whillier/Lion, 83a Holford Street/../../Hughes Directory
1921/Roy Whillier/Lion, Holford Street/../../Post Office Directory
In 1921 census at 83 Carlton Road, Mile End Old Town
Ray Whillier, Licensed Victualler, aged 29 years and 8 months born at Croydon, London, the Employer
George Bryant, Barman, R Whillier, aged 34 years and 2 months born at Barnsbury, London
Mabel Bryant, Barmaid, R Whillier, aged 34 years and 11 months born at Queens Park, London
Lydia Tasker, Cook, aged 68 years and 2 months born at Dalston, London
1934/Alfred James Giles/../../../Kelly's
1938/Alfred James Giles/../../../Post Office Directory
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* Provided By Stuart Giles
** Provided By Stephen Harris
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