Crooked Billet

Status: Closed
Address: 113 River Road, IG11 0EG (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Barking and Dagenham
Former address: Creeksmouth (1871)
Historical parish: Barking
Dates open: by 1719-c2011
Good Beer Guide: 1977-1991, 2008-2010
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former)
Charrington (former)
Notes: Closed to become the "River Club" (a strip club, so no longer technically a pub) and now a restaurant. Rebuilt about 100m north-east of the original site at some point mid-C20.
Sources: Open date: Pubs History
Close date/Owner: CAMRA
Renaming: Randomness Guide to London/CAMRA
Census 1851 [W Kirk]/1861 [W Kirk] (as "Crooked Billett")/1871 [H Coates]/1881 [H Lucas] (as "Crooked Billet")/1891 [I Frost] (as "Crooked Billet")/1901 [J Frost] (as "Crooked Billett")/1911 [A Hillier] (as "Crooked Billet")
London Drinker U231
OS 1882
PO 1855/1862/1863/1867/1871/1874/1878/1882/1886/1890/1895/1899/1902/1906/1908/1910/1912/1914/1917/1922/1926/1929/1933/1937 (all as "Crooked Billet")
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