The original Plough Inn was a wooden building. It was leased for 61 years in 1805 at an annual rent of £12. on the window of the old building was this inscription: March, 1810. Thomas Mount Jones dined here; at six pounds of bacon, drank nineteen pots of beer. (Illustration from Ye Parish of Camberwell by W H Blanch.)Since 1830 the Plough Inn has been a terminus for coaches, horse-drawn omnibuses and motor buses. The present building was erected in 1865. There were strong protests in 1996 after Bass Taverns announced that this historic tavern's name would be changed to the Goose and Granite. A Save The Dulwich Plough campaign was launched. the name Goose and Granite was a marketing invention with no historic significance. The first Goose and Granite pub, in Walthamstow, had a granite top bar. However, recently sense has prevailed and the pub is once more The Plough - too late, however, for the buses which now say 'Dulwich Library'.

We are grateful for permission to reproduce the text here to John D Beasley, from his book East Dulwich, available for £7.95 from South Riding Press, 6 Everthorpe Road, London SE15 4DA.