Boars Head, 66 Fleet street, St Dunstan in West EC4
St Dunstan in West pub history Index
The Access to Archives site has just suggested that the Boars Head existed as early as 1441-42, i.e. "John, bishop of Bath and Wells, to grant a messuage called the Boar's Head next to the Bolt-in-Tun in Fleet Street in the parish of St. Dunstan-in-the-West to the prior and convent of the Carmelites in Fleet Street. London." in Henry V1 20.
BOAR'S HEAD, No. 66, Fleet Street, is dated 1616, but I find the " Boar's Head" Alley is mentioned at least eighty years previous. In 1775, "Sarah Fortescue, a widow, victuallar at the " Boar's Head Ale House," was presented for keeping a disorderly house. - Memorials of Temple Bar 1870
Mooney’s was founded as a company in 1888, it acquired the Boar’s Head, which
was actually its fourth pub in London, in 1895, and the pub’s name after that
was the Irish House, which was what Mooney’s called most of its pubs in the UK
(there was one near London Bridge called Mooney’s Dublin House) and according to
Kelly’s directories the pub in Fleet Street never became the Tipperary until
1968. ***
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in St Dunstan in West, City of London.
Boar's Head, 66 Fleet Street, EC4 - in February 2008
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Tipperary, 66 Fleet Street, EC4 - in February 2019
Residents at this address
Memorials of Temple Bar with some account of Fleet Street and the Parishes of St Dunstan and St Bride in 1870 - BOAR'S HEAD, No. 66, Fleet Street, is dated 1616, but I find the " Boar's Head" Alley is mentioned at least eighty years previous. In 1775, "Sarah Fortescue, a widow, victuallar at the " Boar's Head Ale House," was presented for keeping a disorderly house.
#493 WILLIAM HEALEY AT THE Boar's head, in the field.
Rev. IN FLEET STREET . 1668 HIS HALFE PENNY. W. M. H.
William Hayley was no doubt the same person who appears in the wardmote returns of licensed victuallers for the years 1664 and 1665. The Boar's Head, situated between Water lane (now Water street) and the Bolt-in-Tun inn, was destroyed in the great fire of the following year. On its being rebuilded, Hayley resumed business, issued his token, and his name again appears in the wardmote returns from 1669 to 1680. He served the offices of constable and scavenger in 1674. The Boar's Head is still there.
Westward of the Boar's Head is the Bolt-in-Tun inn, the rebus of the family name of Bolton ; and the device being an arrow or bolt piercing the bung of a tun. It is an inn of earlier date than generally supposed : the ' '' Hospidwm vocatum l& Boltenton" is mentioned as a boundary, in a license of alienation to the Friars Carmelites of London, of certain premises in the parish of St. Dunstan, Fleet street, enrolled on the Patent Roll, 1443, 21 Hen. VI., p. 2, m. 24.
Closes, Commons, Corners, Courts, and Crosses. A - K in 1732 , the Survey of London by William Maitland in 1756 describes Boar's Head court, Fleet street
In 1775, "Sarah Fortescue, a widow, victuallar at the " Boar's Head Ale House," was presented for keeping a disorderly house.
1791/William Haslewood, victualler, Boars Head, Fleet street/../../LMA - Access to Archives
1792/James Swaddall, victualler, Boars Had, Fleet street/../../LMA - Access to Archives
1794/James Swaddall, victualler, Boars Had, Fleet street/../../LMA - Access to Archives
5 April 1791/Insured: William Haslewood, the Boars Head, Fleet Street, victualler/../../Sun Fire Insurance records at the LMA
14 May 1792/Insured: James Swaddall, the Boar's Head, 66 Fleet Street, victualler/../../Sun Fire Insurance records at the LMA
18 June 1794/Insured: James Swaddall, at the Boars Head in Fleet Street, victualler/../../Sun Fire Insurance records at the LMA
1 March 1800/Insured: Job Nightingale, the Boars Head, Fleet Street, victualler/../../LMA - Access to Archives
1805/George Spawforth, wine vaults, 66 Fleet street/../../Holdens Directory
1810/John Lockie describes - Boars Head Court, Fleet Street, at 66, about the middle of the South side, between the Bolt and Tun Inn and Water lane.
1811/Mary Geary, wine vaults, 66 Fleet street/../../Holdens Directory
4 February 1824/Insured: Charles Abbott The Boars Head Fleet Street victualler and William Robinson and John Cox/../../LMA - Access to Archives
Morning Post 28 June 1824
Fatal Accident - On Friday evening, Mrs Geary, who kept the Boars Head, in Fleet street, was passing through Throgmorton street, a young man accidentally ran against her, and threw her down ; she was so dreadfully injured by the fall, that she expired in an hour afterwards.
English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post 29 June 1824
An inquisition on Mrs Mary Geary, whose unfortunate death was reported.
It appeared that William Eager, on Friday evening last, and two young men, his servants at Bakers Coffee house, Change alley, Cornhill, went out to take some liquor at the Black Swan, Whalebone court, when on returning at a quick pace, he rushed against her and both fell on the pavement ; on rising he ran away, but returned, begged her pardon, and apologized for his apparent rudeness.
She was taken to the Boars Head, Fleet street, where she resided with her son in law, Mr Abbott.
Mrs Geary was aged fifty two, and had lived in Fleet street for many years.
Morning Advertiser 09 September 1825
A well known street walker, was charged by Mr Ampthill, who keeps the Boar's Head, in Fleet street, with having broken six square of glass in his window.
9 March 1826/Insured: Philip James Antill, The Boars Head Fleet Street, victualler, and William Robinson and John Cox/../../LMA - Access to Archives
1827/John Antill, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Pigots Directory
April 1827/Antill, Boars Head, Fleet street/../../Licensed Victuallers Association
28th March 1828/Philip James Antill marries Ann Maria Gage at St Dunstan
West by licence/../../../Marriages
1829/John Antill, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Robsons Directory
1832/David Botcherby, 66 Fleet street/../../Robsons Directory
1833-34/David Botcherby/../../../Pigots Directory
1839/William Barker/../../../Pigots Directory
1841/William Barker/../../../Post Office Directory
1842/William Barker/../../../P.O. Directory **
1842/William Barker, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Robson’s Directory **
Morning Advertiser 18 October 1841 *
William Williamson, of the Boars Head, Fleet street, was summoned for "harboring bad characters".
PC Hambridge, 371, stated that he saw six prostitutes drinking in the bar of the Boars Head.
He added that he saw nothing drank or paid for. The house in general very orderly, and has been so, particularly during the occupancy of the defendant, thst is to say for these last two months. He had understood that the house clock had been under repair, and had been the cause of the house being open at so late an hour.
Summons dismissed.
May 9th, 1842, Old Bailey proceedings - Mary Ann Smith was indicted for stealing, on the 28th April, 1 dram glass, value 9d, the goods of William Williamson. *
Maria Marchant - I am barmaid to William williamson, of the Boars Head, Fleet street. About half past six o'clock, on the morning on the 28th April, the prisoner came to our house and asked if i would trust her with some gin - I would not - she staid a few minutes, and I missed a glass - she went out, I followed her, and saw a policeman.
Guilty. Aged 34 - confined Eight Days, solitary.
1843/William Williamson, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Kellys Directory
1844/William Williamson, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Post Office Directory *
1844/William Williamson, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Thompsons Directory *
1846/William Williamson, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Post Office Directory *
The Sun 14 December 1846 *
Boars Head, Fleet street transferred from Reuben Freeman to Ann Walbanche to
1848/Mrs Ann Walbancke/../../../Kellys Directory
February 1849/Ann Walbancke/ Outgoing Licensee, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../The Era
February 1849/Edward Weston/ Incoming Licensee, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street /../../The Era
Morning Herald (London) 08 October 1849
John Bath was charged with stealing a bottle of pale brandy, of the value of 4shillings and 6 pence, from the house of Mr Weston, the Boars Head, in Fleet street.
1851/Edward Weston/../../../Kellys Directory
1851/Edward Weston/Publican/27/Marylebone/Census
1851/Ann Weston/Wife/37/Chwlmsford/Census
1851/Edward Weston/Son/5/Hackney/Census
1851/Henry Weston/Son/4/Poplar/Census
1851/Tom Weston/Son/3/St Dunstan West/Census
1851/Ann Quinn/Cook/26/Chwlmsford/Census
1851/Jane Brown/Housemaid/19/Wapping/Census
1853/Edward Weston/../../../Post Office Directory
May 1853/Edward Weston/Outgoing Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet street/../../Era
May 1853/Charles Cheel/Incoming Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet street/../../Era
1856/Charles Cheel/../../../Post Office Directory
July 1859/R Rose/Outgoing Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../London City Press
July 1859/W M Rose/Incoming Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../London City Press
February 1861/William Marshall Rose/Outgoing Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../London City
Press
February 1861/George Prince James/Incoming Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../London City Press
1861/George Prince James/Victualler/37/Wimborne, Dorset/Census
1861/Maria James/Wife/34/Ringwood, Hampshire/Census
1861/Francis M James/Daughter/7/Wimborne, Dorset/Census
1861/Georgina M James/Daughter/4/Wimborne, Dorset/Census
1861/Adol M James/Son/2/Southwark, Surrey/Census
1861/Francis Stickland/Aunt, Assistant, Widow/60/Rushton, Dorset/Census
1861/Maria Barman/Aunt, Assistant, Widow/62/Rushton, Dorset/Census
1861/Hannah Adams/Domestic Servant/16/Covent Garden, Middlesex/Census
1861/Jane Fry/Domestic Servant/21/Poole, Dorset/Census
1861/Henry Byme/Potman/18/St Giles, Middlesex/Census
1862/George P James/../../../Post Office Directory
October 1862/George Prince James/Outgoing Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../Morning Post
October 1862/John Clark/Incoming Licensee, Boars Head, Fleet Street/../../Morning Post
Era 15 December 1867 - License transfers
Boars Head, Fleet street, Joseph Hart to Joseph Henry Crozier
1869/William Warrington/../../../Post Office Directory
1870/William Warrington/../../../Post Office Directory **
1871/William Warrington/Licensed Victualler/51/Ludlow, Shropshire/Census
1871/Mary Flower/Sister, Housekeeper/48/Ludlow, Shropshire/Census
1871/Thomas Barnes/Boarder, Accountant/52/Sandy Hazels, Bedfordshire/Census
1871/Mary Connor/Servant/29/Cork, Ireland/Census
1871/Edward Barker/Potman/21/Clerkenwell, Middlesex/Census
1871/Sarah J Darlapon/Barmaid/21/Paddington, Middlesex/Census
1874/W Warrington/../../../Licensed Victualler & Hoteliers Directory
1878/William Newman/../../../Post Office Directory **
1881/Joseph Balderson/Publican/55/Taventry, Northampton/Census
1881/Roselia Balderson/Wife/52/Kingsland, Middlesex/Census
1881/Edwin Balderson/Son, Sadler/24/Richmond Victoria, Australia/Census
1881/Amelia Balderson/Daughter/19/Portland Do, Australia/Census
1881/Sarah Rose/General Servant/21/Cambridge/Census
1882/Joseph Balderson/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/Joseph Balderson/../../../Post Office Directory
1885/Joseph Balderson/../../../Post Office Directory **
1886/Thomas Weatherley, Boars Head, 66 Fleet street/../../Post Office
Directory
1886/Thomas Weatherley/../../../Business Directory of London **
1889/James Bloxham/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Robert Carter/../../../Post Office Directory
1893/Mrs Lily Rantzen/../../../Post Office Directory **
1896/George Albert Reid/../../../Post Office Directory
1898 - Now the Irish House
1898/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
1901/John Mulderry/Manager Public House/34/Ireland/Census
1901/William Barrett/Barman/24/Ireland/Census
1901/Edward Monahan/Barman/23/Ireland/Census
1901/William Dolan/Bar Attendant/22/Ireland/Census
1901/Robert Tarrent/Bar Attendant/20/Ireland/Census
1901/Emily Boxall/Cook/42/City, London/Census
1904/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
1908/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
1911/Denis Kennedy/Public House Manager/29/Tipperary/Census
1911/James Jackman/Assistant/25/Wexford/Census
1911/Patrick Brown/Assistant/24/Dublin/Census
1911/James Downes/Assistant/20/Clare, Killard/Census
1911/Ellen Wilkinson/Housekeeper/51/London/Census
1913/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory
1921/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **
1934/J G Mooney & Co Ltd, Irish House, 66 Fleet Street EC4/../../../Kellys Directory
1938/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **
1944/J G Mooney & Co Ltd, Irish House, 66 Fleet Street EC4/../../../Post Office Directory **
1950/J. G. Mooney & Co. Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **
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*** Provided By Martyn Cornell