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Picture source: Derek Cross

The Dartmouth Hotel was situated on Laleham Road. This pub has now been converted to flats.

Source: Russell White

In 1896 Archibald Corbett, a Scottish Liberal MP, bought 278 acres of land in Catford and Hither Green and built houses, on what is now called the Corbett estate. Between 1896 and 1913 he built 3,062 houses at prices ranging from £215 to £470 aimed at “hard working and respectable people”. The development included shopping parades, churches, schools and recreation grounds, and he donated a library in 1907. Corbett was a Scottish Presbyterian, and gave his roads Scottish names. As he was a committed temperance reformer no pubs were permitted. The only pub east of Rushey Green was the Dartmouth Hotel in Laleham Road, presumably named after Viscount Lewisham, the Earl of Dartmouth. The 1901 census has the occupants as William W. H. Turpin, Licensed Victualler with his wife Kate, together with three barmen and two servants.  was born and brought up at 116 Brownhill Road, Catford. The “Dart”, as it was popularly known, was my parent’s local and many local activities and parties were held there. Over the years the pub seemed to have lost popularity and in 2002 the council gave planning permission for it to be converted in to flats.

Derek Cross (March 2017)

My grandfather, Frederick Curtis, was a regular in the Dartmouth Hotel, up until the late 1970s. He was a local character, having won the OBE for bravery as a firefighter during the Second World War. The landlord kept a bottle of Canadian whisky for Frederick's exclusive use, or so Granddad told me when we went to the Dartmouth in the summer of 1974.

John Curtis (February 2022)

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Name	Dates	Comments
Steve Henaghan	1976/1986

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Picture source: Derek Cross
Date of photo: 1951	Picture source: Derek Cross
Date of photo: 1956	Picture source: Derek Cross