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The Bear Tavern was situated on Old Woolwich Road. When Samuel Pepys fled the Plague in 1665 he moved to Greenwich staying in Crane St amongst other places. He notes in his diary drinking and eating at The Bear Tavern round the corner in what is now the stub of Old Woolwich Road between Park Row and Eastney St but was then Bear Lane and led directly into the gates of the old Palace of Placentia. The Bear was still there in 1701 (by which time the Man in the Moon also shared Bear Lane). The pub seems to have vanished in the 1700s but the road was still called Bear Lane till Victorian times.

Source: Meirion Jones

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