This pub closed in 1993 and is currently lying empty. I was briefly called Deco but is now the Asorock Palace, a Nigerian restaurant ** / *** Listed as the Kings Arms, Hoxton Old town in the 1860 and 1862 license transfers. The address is 113 Hoxton Old Town in 1856, and 124 Hoxton Old Town in 1851 and earlier, prior to street renaming. It is also sometimes given as 124 High Street. *+
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A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Shoreditch, East London.
Kings Arms, 295 Hoxton Street, Shoreditch - circa 1940
At the front, second on the left was Albert Croll & third on the left was Maurice Croll.
The licensee of The King Arms, Admiral Keppel and Queen Victoria, i.e. Mrs L sCroll was Albert's wife.
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Kings Arms, 295 Hoxton Street, N1 - in May 2007
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Kings Arms, 295 Hoxton Street. N1 - August 2010
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Residents at this address.
1833/James Hobbs/../../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1839/James Hobbs/../../../Pigots Directory
1842/Jas Hobbs/Kings Arms, 124 Hoxton Old Town/../../Hobsons Directory
July 1849/James Hobbs sen/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
July 1849/James Hobbs jun/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1851/James Hobbs/Kings Arms, 124 Hoxton Old Town/../../Kellys Directory
January 1854/Thomas Jeremiah Worton/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
January 1854/John Hayes Tamsett/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1856/Henry Landon & Co/../../../Post Office Directory
August 1856/Mary Ann Tamsett/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
August 1856/George Rothwell/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
Morning Advertiser 18 January 1859 - Licence transfers :
Kings Arms, Hoxton Old Town, George Rothwell to George Bentley
March 1860/George Bentley/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
March 1860/George Tilly/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
19th November 1860/Margaret White (executrix of George Tilley deceased)/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
19th November 1860/George Allison/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
1861/William Hartland/Victualler/43/Bristol/Census
1861/Sarah Hartland/Wife/45/Ashburton, Gloucester/Census
1861/Eliza Sadleir/Servant/22/West Bergholt, Essex/Census
1861/William Deffree/Servant/24/Clerkenwell/Census
October 1862/William Hartland/ Outgoing Licensee /../../East London Observer
October 1862/William Henry Davis/ Incoming Licensee /../../East London Observer
March 1863/William Henry Davis/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
March 1863/Albert Davis/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
May 1865/Albert Davis/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
May 1865/John Samuel Sweasey/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
March 1867/John Samuel Sweasey/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
March 1867/John Samuel Sweasey sen/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper
1869/John Sweasey/../../../Post Office Directory
July 1869/John Samuel Sweasey/ Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era
July 1869/John William McCloud/ Incoming Licensee /../../The Era
March 1871/John William McLeod/Outgoing Licensee /../../Morning Advertiser
March 1871/Samuel Digby/ Incoming Licensee /../../Morning Advertiser
22nd January 1876/Samuel Digby/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer +
22nd January 1876/John Edward Woolven/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer +
1881/Joseph W Heaton/Licensed Victualler/41/York/Census
1881/Ann Heaton/Wife/62/Kent/Census
1881/Jane Ann Nettleson/Daughter/27/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Emily Cassy/Domestic Servant/19/Oxford/Census
1882/Joseph William Heaton/../../../Post Office Directory
My great great uncle, Thomas Rushent, was a licensed victualler at this pub in 1884 and details appear in Morris’s Business Directory of London at that date. Thomas was quite a personality. He was a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards and fought and was injured in the Crimea. He was awarded the Queens Crimea Medal with 4 clasps, the Turkish Crimea Medal, the 1887 Jubilee Medal with 1897 clasp. In 1877 he was made a Yeoman of the Guard. He died in Walthamstow in 1905. *
1884/Thomas Rushent/../../../Morris Business of London Directory *
1891/Augustus Buckingham/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Augustus T Buckingham/Licensed Victualler/40/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Emma E Buckingham/Wife/36/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Augustus O Buckingham/Son/14/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Emma F Buckingham/Daughter/12/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Ethel F Buckingham/Daughter/6/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Oscar S Buckingham/Son/4/Shoreditch, London/Census
1891/Robert Groom/Barman/20/Oxford/Census
1891/William Barber/Barman/18/Carlton, Norfolk/Census
1891/Kate Salter/Domestic Servant/26/Sudbury, Suffolk/Census
Augustus T Buckingham is next at the Green Man & French
Horn
1895/Harry James Newman/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/William Rogers/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/William Geffers/../../../Post Office Directory
1911/Henry Geffers/Retired farmer/67/Germany/Census
1911/Anna Geffers/Wife/57/Germany/Census
1911/William Geffers/Son/21/Germany/Census
1911/William Only/Barman/23/England/Census
1915/William Geffers/../../../Post Office Directory *+
1921/William Cranwell/../../../Post Office Directory
In 1921 census at 295, Hoxton Street, Shoreditch
William Cranwell, Publican, aged 61 years 2 months, and born in Lambeth, London, the Employer
Emma Cranwell, Wife, Publican, aged 58 years, and born in Lambeth, London, the Employer
Alfred Cranwell, Son, Mechanic, North & Sons Watford Eng, aged 30 years 2 months, and born in Chelsea, London
Ernest William Cranwell, Son, aged 17 years 4 months, and born in Chelsea, London
James Edgar Cranwell, Barman, Kings Arms, Hoxton Street, W Cornwall Publican, aged 51 years, and born in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland
1934/James Ainsworth/../../../Kellys Directory
1936/W F Stevens/../../../BT Telephone Directory [CLErknwl 5581]
1938/Walter Frederick Stevens/../../../Post Office Directory
1939/W F Stevens/../../../BT Telephone Directory [CLErknwl 5581]
1941/W F Stevens/../../../BT Telephone Directory [CLErknwl 5581]
1944/George Frederick Brooks/../../../Post Office Directory
My Aunt Lilian Rose Croll was licensee to both the Admiral Keppel, 232 Hoxton Street, Shoreditch and the Kings Arms, 295 Hoxton Street, Shoreditch in the mid 1900s. She also had another pub which I believe was The Queen Victoria. Above is a photo taken outside the Kings Arms of all the male customers who appear to be going off on a Pub Outing. ***
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* Provided By Graham Jervis
*+ Provided By Ewan
** Provided By Stephen Harris
*** Provided By Carol Stocker