RED LION AND WHEATSHEAF Pubs of Deptford

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Deptford, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1788-

Red Lion and Wheatsheaf

Closed 1971-

45 Deptford High Street (Butt Lane)

St. Paul

Deptford

Above photo December 2006. Taken by Matt Martin.

The pub had closed in 1971 and was now (2017) being used as a pizza takeaway, although in the above photo it was being used as a flower shop.

I have also heard this referred to as the "Red Lion and Distillery."

Not sure if this is from the same pub or another called the "Wheatsheaf" but a coin has been documented from 1658 and the name John Couch. The address Butt Lane has also been used around 1800.

Kentish Gazette, 31 July 1849.

SUTTON v. GRAHAM.

Mr. Bramwell was for the plaintiff; Serjeant Shee for the defendant.

This was an action of assault and battery. The plaintiff keeps the "Lion and Wheatsheaf," at Deptford, where the defendant also resides. In the 27th of February last, the plaintiff was in his bar, when the defendant came in, and after having taken up a basket of biscuits, immediately afterwards struck him a violent blow in the face. The facts having been proved, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5 damages.

LICENSEE LIST

CASWELL 1788-1807+ (Butt Lane)

LADSON Mary 1826-32+

GOODSON Matthew 1840+

SUTTON Thomas Collis 1848-51+

SALMON William Sept/1850-52+

DAWSON Benjamin to May/1853

HOLLIS James May/1853+

BALDWIN William Henry 1856+

GREEN William Aug/1866-69+

LEFLE William 1881-82+ (age 33 in 1881)

RICH Fred S 1884+

SCACE Robert Butler 1899+

ANDREWS William 1910+

BURGESS John Richard Thornton 1911-15+ (age 37 in 1911)

DEFRIES Maurice 1921+

ROSE E J & Co 1934-38+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/RedLionWheatsheaf.shtml

From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Census

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