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9 Chancery Lane
Beckenham
020 8663 1031
https://whatpub.com/jolly-woodman
Above photo date unknown, kindly sent by Maria Wilson. |
Above photo, 1910, showing the pub on the left. Kindly sent by Ian Muir
of the Beckenham History Society. |
Above photo circa 1940s. |
Above photo, circa 1954, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. The pub had been a
tied house of Hoare's Red Lion Brewery, Smithfield, London E1. which
laid claim to being Britain's oldest brewery, tracing its history way
back to 1492. All this changed in 1933 though, when Charrington's Anchor
Brewery, Mile End Road, London E1 acquired and soon closed the Red Lion
brewery, quickly absorbing Hoare's tied estate into its own. However,
one aspect of Hoare's survived the takeover, in the shape of its Toby
Jug trademark, which was used by Charrington's for many years. |
Above photo, 2016. |
Above photo 2016. |
Above photo 2016. |
Above photo, 2025, kindly taken and sent be John Matthews. |
 
Above sign left 2009. Kindly sent by Roger Pester. Sign right, 2025,
kindly taken and sent be John Matthews. |
Described as a beer-house in 1895
Until the middle 1970s this was an ale pub.
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Kentish Mercury, Friday 1 May 1885.
Sudden Death.
Mr. E. A. Carttar held an inquest at the "Jolly Woodman,"
Beckenham, on Thursday, touching the death of a boy named Wilfred
Augustine Anscombe, age 11 years who died at the St. Augstin
Convalescent Home on Monday evening.
Eliza Pritchard, wife of a builder living at Bloomsbury, said the
deceased was her nephew, and on Monday she brought him to Beckenham to
the convalescent home. He appeared to be very weak that day, but she
thought the journey had fatigued him. On the previous day had been out
walking, but was short of breath. From what she saw she did not think
the journey down would hurt deceased.
Elizabeth Pain, an assistant at the convalescent home, said the deceased
appeared to be very ill and exhausted when brought to the home. He was
put to bed just before 5 o'clock, and had some milk, and also beef tea
and iron wine. This seemed to revive him but he died about twenty past
ten on the same night.
Louisa Chapman, the nurse, corroborated, and said she did not think it
necessary to send for a doctor, thinking deceased, who suffered from
heart disease, was exhausted by the journey.
A certificate from Dr. Pearse, obtained the day after the child's death,
set forth that he considered the primary cause of death to be heart
disease.
The Coroner, in summing up, said he thought in such a case as this that
it would be well in future to have a medical examination when a child
was admitted to a convalescent home.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes," and
expressed the opinion that such a case ought not to have been sent to a
convalescent home.
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From the Probate 1918.
Edward George Copper of the
"Woodman," Chancery Lane, Beckenham, Kent, died 2 March 1918. Probate:
London, 5 June to Lucy Emma Copper widow. Effects £283 13s 5d. |
LICENSEE LIST
LATHAM Ann 1851+ (widow age 56 in 1851 )
GEAR John 1871-Oct/1895 (widower also grocer age 38 in 1871)
LOW Margaret Oct/1895-Jan/96
SINDEN W Jan/1896+
WILLIAMS James 1901+ (age 56 in 1901)
COPPER Edward George to Mar/1918 dec'd
COPPER Lucy Mrs 1922-39+ (widow age 77 in 1939)
PORTER Ron 1950s
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Census
Maidstone
and Kentish Journal
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