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Southwark St George Martyr index
The address is Gloucester Place, Old Kent Road in the 1839 Directory *. At the corner of Old Kent Road in 1856
The Bricklayers Arms, Old Kent Road, Southwark - in 1963
Kindly provided by Peter Prior
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Southwark St George Martyr, Surrey, London.
It sadly no longer exists due to all the road engineering and the fly-over which has been built there. **
For quite a while in the first half of the 1900s it was run by my great-uncle, Richard William PARTRIDGE, who
was my grandfather's older brother. He was
the 2nd in a line of 5 people in direct descent and all of the same
name:- the first was my great-grandfather, born in Westminster in 1821,
served in the cavalry (15 1/2 years in India and then 6 months in the
Crimea on the way home) and ended up as the Chief Park Inspector in
Battersea Park. The 4th and 5th in line (father and son) live down in
Kent. **
The 2nd Richard William Partridge who ran the pub started
in the licensed trade when he as still living at home in Battersea: in
the 1891 Census he is shown as a "Licensed
Victuallers Assistant"; by the 1901 Census he is shown as a "Licensed
Victuallers Manager, at the
Trafalgar , 1 Sumner Road, Peckham". I am not sure when he moved to the "Bricklayers
Arms", but he was certainly there when his 2nd wife, Kate (n�e MESSENGER)
died in December 1911. He is also there in the 1920 and 1930 Post Office
London Street Directory, but by 1942 the pub was being run by Comans
Catering Co. Ltd. and they also appear in the 1947 Post Office Directory.
He and his 3rd wife (Florence n�e GALLON) moved out to Bromley in Kent
where he ran the Bell Hotel (I think he owned it rather than just managed
it, but I have not found definite proof.) **
Residents at this address.
1811/Fassett & Co, Bricklayers Arms Inn, Old Kent road/../../Holdens Directory
1822/Thomas Crafter/Bricklayers arms, Kent road/../../Victuallers
Recognizance
1825/Mr. Crafter, Bricklayers Arms, Kent road/../../Licensed Victuallers
Association
1825/Thomas Crafter/../../../Victuallers Recognizance
1826/Thomas Crafter/../../../Victuallers Recognizance
1834/Mr R T Seabrook/../../../LV Asylum
1839/Thomas Sambrook/../../../Pigot's Directory *
1841/Richard T. Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory *
1856/Richard Henry Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1869/Sambrook Bros/../../../Post Office Directory *
November 1870/William Richard Sambrook, Henry Edwin Sambrook and Charles
Edward Sambrook/Outgoing Licensees/../../Era
November 1870/Henry Edwin Sambrook/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1874/H C Sambrook/../../../Licensed Victualler & Hoteliers Directory
1881/BEING BUILT////Census
1882/Henry Edward Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/H E Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Henry Edwin Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/Henry Edwin Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Henry Edwin Sambrook/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/Highland & Partridge/../../../Post Office Directory
1915/Richard William Partridge/../../../Post Office Directory **
1920/Richard William Partridge/../../../Post Office Directory **
1930/Richard William Partridge/../../../Post Office Directory **
1934/Richard William Partridge/../../../Kellys Directory
1937 - 1952/Richard Watts Coman/../../../Kelly's
Directory ***
1939/Coman's Catering Co Ltd/../../../BT Telephone Directory [BERmndsy 2960]
1942/Comans Catering Co Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **
1943/Coman's Catering Co Ltd/../../../BT Telephone Directory [BERmndsy 2960]
1947/Comans Catering Co Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **
* Provided By Ewan
** Provided by Roger Partridge
*** Provided By Christina
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