The Historical Directory of Pubs in the South East of England, including London
If you still cannot find what you are looking for; or even better, you have something to add to the historical Pubs site,
please email me -
Updated in August 2008 by Kevan.
These are the entry pages to the history of London,
Essex, Kent,
Hertfordshire,
Suffolk &
Sussex Historical Public Houses site,
which complement many other excellent FREE genealogy sites..(or use the navigation bars and the excellent
search engines).
London Public Houses information starts with the 1881 census, Trade
Directory entries from the Post Office , Kelly and Pigots Directories,
Petty Session Victuallers records etc. The information is mostly historical,
being up to two hundred years previous. But, you will also find many modern and
classical images of these public houses & Beer Houses; and the occasional
Telephone number, or postal code. There are now over 14,000 London, Essex,
Suffolk, Sussex, Hertfordshire & Kent Pubs - i.e. public houses, taverns, Pubs
in London and many beer houses & retailers (the early off licences). These are
listed by church parish as they would have existed before 1900, and many of
these are no longer in existence due to road improvement schemes and the policy
to build on 'brown fill' sites, often including old pubs and garages, which are
being annihilated in vast quantities, to improve housing opportunuties.
The nomenclature of "London" is very complex issue and is not particularly
amenable to any kind of scientific approach. London has been carved up into
administrative chunks on a number of different bases over the centuries, from
the old parish system to the current post code one. Counties have changed their
boundaries, boroughs have come and gone, been renamed and changed shape.
Registration districts add another twist - sometimes they are named after
parishes, sometimes not, and they split and merge over time.
If this wasn't enough, we have to add to the equation the fact that actual, real
people give names to the place where they live. These are often only vaguely
related to the "official" boundaries set by the various administrative
authorities.
Post codes might seem, initially, like a good system to use, but in reality they
are probably worse than useless. Postal districts are based, alphabetically, on
the location of main post office and are very confusing to people who expect
some kind of numerical logic (e.g. N10's neighbours are N8, N6 and N2).
Moreover, the central postal districts cover far too wide an area to distinguish
specific "areas". [Caroline Bradford]
Whereas, churches appear to last for ever. When was the last time you used
directions like ' Turn left at St Andrews, to the end of the road, right at St
Edwards, and past St Michaels'.
Well, I like the Christian approach to Pubs, and include them in a Parish, there
are plenty of church folk inside them just waiting for an excuse to visit their
local [church].
Please
email with any
historical detail you may have about any Essex, Kent, Suffolk or London Pub / Public House / Beer House /
Tavern etc.
I get hundreds of emails every day, fortunately most 'spam mails' are deleted by my mail scan settings. The final emails are delivered to various email addresses, and replying to these are not always successful. If you do not hear from me in a timely fashion, please feel free to email again, I do not mind! This is a pure PUBS history site, I doubt if I know where the PUBS are NOW, but try the site for where they were a hundred years ago, again enjoy!
Updated in April 2008 by Kevan.
And Last updated on: Saturday, 23-Aug-2008 06:15:57 PDT