Robin Hood (Deptford)

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Albyn Road, where there was a Robin Hood pub in the last half of the 19th century.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Albyn Road / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-21.

The Robin Hood on the street now named Albyn Road in Deptford is in evidence from 1861 to 1891.

The original address was 15 Garden Row. This street name was in use by 1871 and still in 1881, but by 1891 the street had been renamed St Johns Road, which was already the name of a stretch of the same road immediately to the south. Sometime after 1938 the street was again renamed, this time to Albyn Road, a name it still retains. Only one public house is indicated on the stretch of road in question, this, though anonymous on the maps, is easily identified as the still existing Prince Alfred at 44 Albyn Street, on the corner of Albyn and Oscar streets It is clear from the 1891 Census that the current street numbering system with odd and even numbers on separate sides of the road had then been introduced here, and it has the Robin Hood as the only household between 47 and 51 St Johns Road, so evidently its address was then 49 St Johns Road, on the east side of the road. Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, 15 Garden Row, St Paul, Deptford
• Lonjdon Pubology: Robin Hood.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map London (1873; surveyed 1869-71)
• 25" O.S. map London CIV (1897; rev. 1893) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map London (1897; rev. 1893-94)
• 25" O.S. map London (1916; rev. 1914)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXXXI (1870-82; surveyed 1862-73)
• 6" O.S. map Middlesex XXII (1879; surveyed 1868-71)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III (1880; surveyed 1868-73)
• 6" O.S. map London XI.NE (1894-96; rev. 1893-94)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III.SE (1898; rev. 1893-94) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III.SE (1898; rev. 1893-94)
• 6" O.S. map Kent I.SE (1899; rev. 1893-94)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet O (1920; rev. 1913-1914)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet O (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Notes

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