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This pub existed in 1805: an advertisement in the Morning Chronicle of Monday, August 26, 1805 for the sale of 3 houses in Goodman’s Row, Palmer’s Village, lists “the Horseshoe in Little George Street, near the Bluecoat School” as one of the places where particulars may be obtained. There is no landlord named.
I am pretty certain it stood on the corner of Little George Street and Horseshoe Alley (the 1878 OS map has a PH there). Horseshoe Alley was called “Horseshoe Stable Yard” on Rocque’s map of 1746, suggesting it was attached to an inn, but whether this or an earlier one, perhaps on York Street, I cannot tell. (There is a “Black Horse Stable Yard” on the map, which comes out on York Street at about where the “Black Horse” – today’s “Buckingham” - stood.)
Little George Street got its modern name of Vandon Street in the 1890s (with Horseshoe Alley becoming Vandon Passage), but the Horseshoe was still there in the 1899 Public House and Publican Directory * Closed by the Compensation Authority in 1908.
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1805, William Boone, Horse shoe, Little George street, James street, Westminster/../../Holdens Directory
John Lockie, a descriptive London Street Directory in 1810 describes as - Horse Shoe Alley, York Street, Westminster, the second on the Right a few doors from James st. it leads to Little Chapel st. by the Blue coat school.
1825/Mr. Bone, Horse Shoe, Little George street, Chapel street, Westminster/../../Licensed Victuallers Association
09 Nov 1827/William Bone/../../../Sun Fire Office catalogue - MS 11936/516/1067358 *
1830/Mr Bone, Horseshoe, George street, Westminster makes a one guinea Susbscription to the Licensed Victuallers Association
1833/William Bone/../../../LVAssociation
1839/William Bone/../../../Pigots Directory
1841/Elizth. Bone/Licensed Victualler/67/Middlesex/Census *
1841/James Bone/../27/Middlesex/Census
1841/Willm. Schofield/Apprentice/17/Middlesex/Census
1841/James Schofield/Barman/14/Middlesex/Census
1841/Eliza Pitt/../10/Middlesex/Census
1841/Jan Harup/Servant/20/Middlesex/Census
1841/Henry Greenway/Servant/20/Middlesex/Census
1841/Thos. Mills/Architet/19/Middlesex/Census
1843/James Bone/../../../Kellys Directory
30th Nov 1847/License transfer from James Bone to John Strong/../../../The Era *
1851/John Strong/../../../Kellys Directory
1851/John Strong/Licensed Victualler, Widow/35/Westmoreland/Census
1851/Jane Caughlin/House Servant/26/Warcup, Westmoreland/Census
1851/John Timms/Pot Boy/16/Buckinghamshire/Census
1856/James Phillips/../../../Post Office Directory
1861/James Phillips/Licensed Victualler/36/Dulwich Surrey/Census *
1861/Ann Phillips/Wife/35/Hinton Gloucestershire/Census
1861/James Phillips/Son/4/Westminster Middlesex/Census
1861/William Phillips/Lodger/73/Kelsall Suffolk/Census
1861/John H Wright/House Servant/19/St Luke’s Middlesex/Census
12th May 1863/License transfer from James Philips to Thomas John Milsom /../../../The Era *
6th Nov 1866/License transfer from Thomas John Milsom to William James Penfold /../../../The Era *
5th Nov 1867/License transfer from William James Penfold to John Luke Percy /../../../The Era *
My Great Great Grandfather James Jaques' sister, Catherine Eleanor Jaques (1819-1869) married a John Luke Percy in 1843. *+
The couple are recorded as running the Surprise pub at 110 Vauxhall Bridge Road, SW1 in 1865 (as it was built in 1864, I presume he was the first Licencee), and later, the Horseshoe Tavern in Little George Street, St Margaret's, Westminster from November 1867 to November 1868.
3rd Nov 1868/License transfer from John Luke Percy to Edmund Furber /../../../The Era *
1869/Edmund Furber/../../../Post Office Directory
1871/Edmund Furber/Licensed Victualler/45/Isleworth, Middlesex/Census
1871/Martha R Furber/Wife/45/London, Middlesex/Census
27th Aug 1872/License transfer from Harry Brett to William Steer /../../../The Era *
1881/Edwrd Simmons/Licensed Victualler/37/Beddington, Surrey/Census
1881/Ann E Simmons/Wife/27/High Wycombe, Buckingham/Census
1881/Edward W Simmons/Son/11 months/Westminster, Middlesex/Census
1881/Ellen Bowles/Mother In Law, Widow/46/High Wycombe, Buckingham/Census
1881/Charles Herbert/Stableman Groom/21/Limerick, Ireland/Census
1882/Edwrd Simmons/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/Edward Simmons/../../../Post Office Directory
Address changed to 15 Vandon Street :
1891/Geo Tester/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Frederick J Walter/Licensed Victualler Manager/33/Whitechapel London /Census *
1891/Annie Walter/Wife/32/Kensington London/Census
1895/Edward Heaverman/../../../Post Office Directory *
1899/Edward Heaverman/../../../Post Office Directory *
1901/Edward Heaverman/Licensed Victualler, Widow/60/Stoke Newington, London/Census
1901/Harry Longstaff/Barman/62/Darlington, Durham/Census
1901/Elizabeth Ann Chineries/Domestic Servant/36/Stoke Newington, London/Census
London Evening Standard 12 June 1907 - List of premises to be considered by the Compensation Authority :
The Horse Shoe, 15 Vandon street, Full, William John Matthews
Morning Post 29 January 1908
More Lost Licences. £323,342 awarded in six hours as compensation.
Licenses ordered for extinction under the Licensing Act, 1904 were:
Horse Shoe, Vandon street SW £2275
* Provided By John Hills
*+ Provided By Graham Hoadly
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