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Sort file:- Greenwich, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1823-

White Swan

Latest 1980s-

(Name to)

85-87 Greenwich High Road

Greenwich

White Swan

Above photo, date unknown.

 

The pub is now closed, closing circa 2007.

It changed name to "Miller's" I believe around the 1980s.

Not certain about this but it may have reverted back to the "Swan" without the colour attached just before its final closure.

 

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

Thanks for your co-operation.

 

From an email received 28 March 2020.

This was the pub where Mark Knopfler saw the jazz band called “Sultans of Swing”…

Regards,

Andrew Wild.

Extract from Mark Knopler 1983 Dire Straits biography.

Through the spring and early summer of 1977 the songs kept coming. Wild West End’ was written about Mark’s wanderings around London; ’Southbound Again' came from memories of trips to the capital. Of ‘Sultans of Swing', Mark says: "Sultans" was written quite a long time before the band; I hadn't met John then. Dave was living somewhere down in Greenwich and we just went out to the pub - I think it was called the "Swan," something like that, in Greenwich High Road - and had a game of pool and a couple of pints. There was a jazz band playing, and there was nobody in there except us and a couple of kids in the comer.

They did a couple of requests. I asked them for "Creole Love Call", and it was great. There are loads of bands like that. They're postmen, milkmen, accountants, draughtsmen, teachers. They just get together Sunday lunchtimes, night-times, and they play trad.

And it's funny because they play this New Orleans music note for note - in Greenwich.'

John remembers that originally 'Sultans’ was very different. The lyrics were the same but the tune was completely different. 'I have the feeling that he wrote some music one day and said, Hey, I've got some great new chords for “Sultans"!'

 

LICENSEE LIST

RITSON J 1823+ Pigot's Directory 1823

WARD James 1826+

JONES Edward 1832-34+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

CARTER George 1840+

PARKER Arthur C J 1841+

CALVERT James 1851-52+ (age 35 in 1851Census)

COOK John 1858-62+ (age 44 in 1861Census)

PARFREY Philip 1866-71+ (widower age 50 in 1871Census)

MEEKINGS Algernon to Aug/1872

TODD John Aug/1872+

WOODS John 1874+

TUCKER Walter 1881+ (age 36 in 1881Census)

ENDCOX George 1882+

AUSTIN Thomas 1891-96+ (age 40 in 1891Census)

DRING William 1901+

SQUIRES Charles & Son 1904-05+

FOWLER George 1908+

LUCK George Robert 1911+

NEWELL Albert Scott 1914+

LEVY Ernest Hyman 1919+

CLARK Mrs 1928-35+

GAMMIE Charles Thomas 1936+

JONES M W 1937-38

PARKER Arthur C J 1939-44+

PARKER E S Mrs 1949-52+

MORRIS D 1953+

REDBOURN A C 1954+

JONES C G 1955+

CHURCH J Oct/1956-58+

TURL C W 1959+

RICHARDSON L R 1960-65+

DIXON R W J May/1965+

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

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/whiteswan.html

 

Pigot's Directory 1823From the Pigot's Directory 1823

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

CensusCensus

 

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