Bell

Status: Closed and demolished
Address: 12 St Marychurch Street, SE16 (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Southwark
Former name(s): Blue Bells
Former address: 6 Church Street (1891)
Market Place, Church Street (1869)
84 Church Street (1839)
[also listed as Victoria Place, Lower Road (1856), and as Deptford Lower Road (1841)]
Historical parish: Rotherhithe
Dates open: by 1792-at least 1915
Notes: This may be the same as the "Blue Bells", listed in a 1792 Sun Fire Office insurance record as being on "Deptford Road, near Princes Street" (this latter is now Mayflower Street, just to the north of where the pub was located, and Deptford Road is the modern Lower Road).
Sources: Open date: Archives
OS 1875/1896/1915
PO 1839/1841 (as "Bell Tap")/1856/1869/1882/1895/1899 (all as "Bell" except where noted)
References: MS 11936/386/598893 (as "Blue Bells")
MS 11936/451/852488 (as "Bell")
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