Horse and Groom

Open 2014+

136 Main Road

Sidcup

Above postcard, 1907.

Above photo, 1907.

Above photo, 1958.

Above photo, 1958, just before demolition.

Above photo, 1960, showing the opening of the new building. Kindly sent by Caroline Hardy.

Above photo, 1960, showing the licensees of the new building, William (Bill) and Joan Hardy. Kindly sent by their daughter Caroline Hardy.

Above photo 1960, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Obviously the same opening celebration. L to R: Drayman, Jack Strickland - Director, Charles Whitbread - Drayman Charles Gibbons.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo 2006 by Dave Patten Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo 2011 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.

Above sign, July 1992.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

I am informed by Joan Hardy that the pub we see there today was opened on the 11th November 1960 and her parents were the first licensees of the new building.

The original building was a timber build one and suffered bomb damage during WW2 and for many years operated from a shack next to it. The new build was erected over the original foundations after being demolished. Locally it was referred to as the "House of Gloom."

Operating as a Harvester pub in 2014.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 20 March 1902.

BROMLEY POLICE COURT.

Robert Wilson, of the "Cricketers," Orpington, was fined £5 and costs for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises.

Mrs. Tullett, of the "Horse and Groom," Sidcup, was fined 20s and costs for a like offence.

In neither case was the license endorsed.

LICENSEE LIST

TULLETT Mrs 1902+

MARTIN Laura Mrs 1918-38+

HARDY Bill & Joan Nov/1960-65

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Census

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