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Bulls Head, 22 High Street, Dartford

This pub closed in 1972 and the premises are now in mixed commercial and retail use. **

Bulls Head, 22 High Street, Dartford - in August 2010

Bulls Head, 22 High Street, Dartford - in August 2010

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Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Dartford, Kent . The Dartford, Kent listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.

The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

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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