Ship Tavern

Status: Closed and demolished
Address: Lower Fore Street, SE1 (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
Note: The location on these maps is approximate.
London borough: Lambeth
Former name(s): Ship
Former address: [now Albert Embankment]
Fore Street (1825)
Historical parish: Lambeth
Dates open: by 1824-at least 1869
Notes: An 1824 Sun Fire Office insurance records notes that it's "near the church", presumably along the waterfront, and an 1860 photograph reproduced in the Survey of London vol. 23, which is taken from Lambeth Bridge looking towards Fore St, shows the building abutting the right-hand side (the south side) of the bridge.
Sources: Open date: Archives
PO 1856 (as "Ship")/1869 (as "Ship Tavern")
References: MS 11936/501/1021849 (as "Ship")
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