Plumbers Arms Tea Gardens, Home Brewed Ale and Chop House, at Crooms Hill, Greenwich, an advertising note for £1000, 22 May 1837, serial number 8, promising to ‘afford the best accommodation on the most reasonable terms to the visitors of the above names house’, signature of Mr. J. Pope, mounting traces and paper damaged at corners, overall fine and rare
Outing unlisted £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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Henry Pope, born 1791, was a plumber by trade. In the 1841 census, he ran a coffee house and tea garden with his first wife Mary, named the Plumbers Arms. He appears in newspapers only once, for entirely unrelated incident whereby he broke up a fight between a dog and cat in his hop, and had his arm lacerated for his trouble!