Landlords, legends, census records, and lost taverns.
Lambeth pub history index
The address is listed as Narrow Wall in Sun Fire Office insurance records, an older name for a street running roughly along the same line as Commercial Road (now Upper Ground). *
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in the Lambeth parish, Surrey, London. This includes Kennington, Brixton, Lambeth, Norwood, Peckham & Waterloo Road.
Residents at this address.
1790/John Ivey/victualler/../../Sun Fire Office records held at the London
Metropolitan Archives *
1795/Thomas White/victualler/../../Sun Fire Office records held at the
London Metropolitan Archives *
1808/Morris Caffrey/victualler/../../Sun Fire Office records held at the
London Metropolitan Archives *
1814/John Watts/victualler/../../Sun Fire Office records held at the London
Metropolitan Archives *
1825/Mr Kearney/../../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1825/John Kearney, Dover Castle, Commercial road/../../Victuallers
Recognizances
1827/Jno Kearney, Dover Castle, Commercial road, Lambeth/../../Pigots Directory
1831/_ Challands, Dover Castle, Narrow wall, 1 guinea/../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1839/Bennett Challands/../../../Pigots Directory
1841/B. Challands/../../../Post Office Directory *
1842/Bennett Challands/../../../Post Office Directory
1851/John Hall/../../../Kellys Directory
Morning Advertiser. 12 June 1851 - Licence transfers
Dover Castle, Commercial road, John Hall to William Neave Trorey
1856/William Neave Trorey/../../../Post Office Directory *
1869/George Parsons/../../../Post Office Directory
George Parsons is at the Baxter Arms, Islington
by July 1870
1874/J Howell/../../../Licensed Victualler & Hoteliers Directory
1881/William F Smee/Licensed Victualler, Widow/56/Clerkenwell,
Middlesex/Census
1881/R L A Smee/Daughter, Barmaid/32/Shoreditch/Census
1881/Elizabeth A Smee/Daughter, Barmaid/28/Islington St Margt/Census
1881/Frederick J Smee/Son, Auctioneers Clerk/19/Bloomsbury St Giles/Census
1881/William F Smee/Son, Auctioneers Clerk/17/Westminster, Middlesex/Census
1881/Emma Holloway/Domestic Servant/22/Islington, Middlesex/Census
1882/William Fuller Smee/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/Robert Long/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/William Long/../../../../Post Office Directory
1895/William Long/../../../../Post Office Directory
1899/William Long/../../../../Post Office Directory
1910/William Long/../../../../Post Office Directory
1915/William Long/../../../Post Office Directory *
1921/Ernest Turner/../../../../Post Office Directory
* Provided By Ewan