Crown Tavern, 24 Aberdeen Place, Maida Hill, Marylebone, London NW8
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This pub was rebuilt in around 1900 and is also known as ‘Crocker’s Folly’ after early landlord Frank Crocker. It is a Grade II* building, but closed on 14 March 2004 and has an uncertain future. ** Known as the Crockers Folly when it closed in 2004. This pub has been restored to its extraordinary Victorian splendour with the upper floors converted to residential use and reopened on 25th October 2014, still retaining the former name of the Crockers Folly though now largely a Lebanese restaurant and cocktail bar. ***
Historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels.
Crown Tavern, 23/24 Aberdeen Place, NW8 - in April 2009
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address.
1841/Hen Beasley/../../../Post Office Directory
1848/James Webster/../../../Post Office Directory
1851/James Webster/../../../Kellys Directory
1856/James Webster/../../../Post Office Directory
October 1857/executors of James Webster/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
October 1857/Francis Rose/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1861/Charles Viner/Licensed Victualler/56/Frome, Somerset/Census
1861/Mary A Viner/Wife/60/Wrotham, Kent/Census
1861/William Lear/Waiter/41/City of London, St Clements/Census
1861/Eliza Lear/House Servant/34/Crembell, Hampshire/Censu
1861/Elizabeth Penton/House Servant/20/Hinxton, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/William T Dunn/Lodger, Gentlemans Coachman/22/Bromfield, Hertfordshire/Census
1861/Richard Moor/Lodger, Gentlemans Groom/28/Tipperary, Ireland/Census
1865/Charles Viner, Crown, 23 Aberdeen place/../../Post Office Directory
Charles Viner is at the Rose and Crown, Crooms Hill by the 1871 census
1869/Thomas Wilkes/../../../Post Office Directory
1879/E Bartlett/../../../Hutchings & Crowsley’s Directory **
1881/George Clark/Licensed Victualler/62/Limehouse, Middlesex/Census
1881/Maria Clark/Wife/60/Stepney, Middlesex/Census
1881/Frank Clark/Son, Tobacconist (Out Of Business)//Stepney,
Middlesex/Census
1881/Florence Clark/Daughter in Law/22/Barford, Oxford/Census
1881/Marie F Clark/Grand Child/4/Islington, Middlesex/Census
1881/Lillian K Clark/Grand Child/2/Hampstead, Middlesex/Census
1881/Bertram E G Clark/Grand Child/11 months/Chelsea, Middlesex/Census
1881/Elizabeth Jane Brown/Barmaid/16/Scotland/Census
1881/Mary E Compson/General Domestic/16/Portsmouth/Census
1882/George Clark/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/George Clark/../../../Post Office Directory
1888/George Watkins/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Frank Crocker/../../../Post Office Directory
My father's sister, Ethel Barker, married Charles Durden. The pub was run by
Ethel Durden, Charles Durden, Bernard Barker and Clarence Barker as a family
concern. Clarence ran a large billiard hall in the pub. This was around
1924; and somewhere I have a picture of myself on the outside balcony with
my grandmother.
Charles Durden later killed himself by jumping from the window on the
corner, where the grand piano was (as opposed to Richard Tames' book, which
says that Crocker did this - this is wrong, it was my uncle). Charles Durden
was previously at the
Lord Nelson, Old Kent Road shortly after being married, and probably at
the Ship & Billet, in
Greenwich by 1904. *
1917/Charles Durden/../../../Post Office Directory **
1921/Charles Durden/../../../Post Office Directory **
1934/Charles Durden/../../../Kellys Directory
1938/Charles Durden/This record is probably a year out of date/../../Post Office Directory
There is a marriage in 8th September 1925 in East Grinstead between Cecil Francis Foster, Licensed Victuraller, aged 26 and Anne Maude Angel, aged 29. Both parents are, or were, Licensed Victuallers, being Solomon Foster and George Angel (deceased).
In 1939 at Crown Public House 24 Aberdeen Place, St John's Wood
Cecil F Foster, Licensed Victualler, born 02 Dec 1900
Anne M Foster, Unpaid Domestic Duties, born 21 Jul 1896
Ann Angel, Independent Means, born 26 Nov 1861
Clarence C Barker, Head Barman, born 13 Sep 1896
Fred James Norval, Barman, born 29 Mar 1909
William Lower, Barman, born 12 Sep 1911
James R Martin, Barman, born 04 Feb 1918
Alice Norval, Domestic Maid, born 02 Jan 1908
Elizabeth Cootes, Domestic Maid, born 12 Feb 1919
James R Martin, born 04 Feb 1918
1940, Cecil Fras Foster, 24 & 24A Crown Hotel/../../Post Office Directory
1971, Crown Hotel, 24 Aberdeen place,,NW8
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