Bulls Head, 22 High Street, Dartford
This pub closed in 1972 and the premises are now in mixed commercial and retail use. **
Dartford pub history index
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Dartford, Kent.
Bulls Head, 22 High Street, Dartford - in August 2010
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
The following entries are in this format:
Residents at this address
1706/Henry Wooden / Brewer/../../Kent Quarter Sessions papers, held at the Centre for Kentish Studies **
1824/John Lane/../../../Pigot’s Directory **
1840/George Whaller/../../../Pigot’s Directory
1855/John Martin/../../../Post Office Directory **
1858/John Martin/../../../Melville’s Directory **
1862/J C Waller/../../../Post Office Directory
1874/Thomas Weller/../../../Post Office Directory
I have discovered that my ancestors seem to have run nearly every pub in
Dartford/Darenth over the years so your list has been invaluable in
trying to work out how long they were in residence in whichever pub. *
Edwin Loft was the son in law of John and Harriett Martin (my fourth
great-grandparents) who ran the
Fox and Hounds, Lanes End,
Darenth from before 1851 until Harriett’s death in 1871. They had 11
children and their daughter, Eliza Martin became the landlady of the Fox
and Hounds after her mother died. She married Edwin Loft in 1878 and
they ran the Bull’s Head for a time, although I am not sure for how
long. *
Witnesses of their marriage included Edmund Mackay (Landlord of the
Chequers, Darenth) and husband of Eliza’s niece Harriet Amelia Barnett;
Eliza’s brother, John Martin and Amelia White, who is probably related
to Clara Agnes Gausden (nee White). Clara was Eliza’s niece and married
Arthur Gausden who ran the Fox and Hounds, Darenth between 1881-1891. *
1881/Edwin Loft/Licensed Victualler/33/Meopham, Kent/Census *
1881/Eliza Loft/Wife/46/Dartford, Kent/Census
1881/Elizabeth May/General Servant/17/Dartford, Kent/Census
1881/Arthur Collison/Visitor/14/Epsom, Surrey/Census
1882/Edwin Loft/../../../Post Office Directory
The list carries on (and on, and on) as almost all of John and Harriet
Martin’s children became Licensed Victuallers and did many of their
grand-children. My great-great grandparents – John and Jane Barnett ran
the Tiger in St Albans Road and then the
Chequers in Darenth after John’s
sister and brother-in-law Edmund Mackay passed away. George Newns,
another of John Barnett’s brothers-in-law ran the Tiger when John and
his family moved to Darenth. John’s mother was Mary Ann Barnett, first
child of John and Harriet Martin. *
1891/William John Light/../../../Post Office Directory
1903/William John Light/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/John Thomas Waller/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/John Thomas Waller/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/John Thomas Waller/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Mrs M Brown/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Mrs M Brown/../../../Post Office Directory
* Provided By Sandra Walker
** Provided By Stephen Harris
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