DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Thursday, 28 May, 2026.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Wheatsheaf

Open 2026+

135 High Street

West Wickham

020 8777 5500

https://whatpub.com/wheatsheaf

Above photo 2015.

Above photo, 2015.

Above photo, 2026, kindly taken and sent by John Matthews.

Above sign, 2026, kindly taken and sent by John Matthews.

South Eastern Gazette Tuesday 10 January 1865.

BROMLEY PETTY SESSIONS, MONDAY.

The license of the "Wheatsheaf," West Wickham, was transferred from Mr. Thomas Kemp, to Mr. W. Rush.

Bromley & District Times, Friday 25 June 1897.

Visitors made welcome at the "Wheatsheaf Inn" and Gardens, West Wickham, Kent.

Proprietor J. Hurst.

Spacious accommodation for Bean Feasts, Riders, Drivers, Cyclists and Pedestrians.

Rooms for large or small parties, Teas, Ales, Wines, Spirits and Cigars, the very best only.

Billiards and splendid skittle alley. Always been a favourite stopping place.

From the http://www.newsshopper.co.uk. By Rebecca Flood. 16 Oct 2015.

Man in critical condition with burns after suffering a cardiac arrest when a car caught fire outside the Wheatsheaf pub.

A man is in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest and burns after a car caught fire in West Wickham.

Firefighters rescued the man from the flaming car which was parked in the car park of the Wheatsheaf pub, along the High Street, last night (October 15).

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) was called to reports of a car on fire just before 10pm.

A spokesman said they sent an ambulance crew, an incident response officer and a medical team for the Air Ambulance in a car.

They treated a man in cardiac arrest.

The 45-year-old - who also suffered burn injuries - was taken to a south London hospital as a priority.

The incident is not being treated as suspicious.

The pub declined to comment.

The Bromley local history society suggests that this has also been known as "Ye Olde Anthropologist" around 2011. Local knowledge appreciated please.

LICENSEE LIST

KEMP Thomas 1858-Jan/65 (also fruit grower age 47 in 1861 )

RUSH William Jan/1865-76+ (age 34 in 1871)

GRIMSELL George 1881+ (age 32 in 1881)

BRITTAIN Charles 1885+ (Thorntons Beckenham Directory 1885)

LAVER H 1887+ (Thorntons Beckenham Directory 1887)

GOBY E G 1889+ (Strongs Bromley Directory 1889)

SOUTH Mary Mrs 1891+ (Widow age 50 in 1891)

FARTHING J G 1892+(Strongs Bromley Directory 1892)

HURST J F 1895-98+ (Thorntons Directory 1895 & 98)

BAILEY John 1901-03+ (age 45 in 1901)

BAILEY Ernest 1902-03 (Thorntons Beckenham Directory 1903)

BAILEY John S 1903 (Strongs Bromley Directory 1903)

SADLER W (Strongs Bromley Directory 1905)

MAYES Frederick John 1909-10 (Kellys 1909-10)

SMITH George 1911+ (age 27 in 1911)

HILLIER William 1913+

BASSETT Henry 1914 (Kellys 1914)

HUNTLEY Morris 1816+ (Kellys 1916)

BURROWS Alfred 1918-22+

STEVENS William 1924-38+ (Kellys 1924, 28, 29, 30, 32)

STEARN Frank & Rita 1949-67+

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

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-

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