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The Green Dragon
The Geen Dragon, now Indian restaurant.

CDM 2015

The Green Dragon, Kent Street, Upper Gornal.
The pub seems to have been established around 1830, it was closed in the 1990s and and in 1999 opened as a restaurant with Indian cusine.
1841: Gornal.
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Whereas some malicious and evil disposed person or persons did, on or about the 17th day December instant, POISON a valuable brown and white Greyhound DOG, called Waterloo, the property of a gentleman in the immediate neighbourhood, and kept at the Green Dragon Inn, Gornall: whoever will give such information as to lead to the discovery of the person or persons guilty of the said offence shall, on application to the said John Cartwright, receive the above payment.
Situated at the busy junction of Eve Lane and Jews Lane with the Dudley to Wolverhampton road, the pub has always been a landmark for directions into Gornal via Jews Lane.
The main Wolverhampton to Dudley road served as a trolley bus route with a turning circle for the buses opposite the Green Dragon.
April 1911 sale notice.
 The widely-know, commodious, and long established fully licensed
PUBLIC HOUSE, "THE GREEN DRAGON" INN
most advantageously situated in and fronting to BURTON ROAD (the main road from Wolverhampton to Dudley), at UPPER GORNAL, now in lease to Messrs. Hanson, together with a comfortable Dwelling House with out-offices adjoining, and numbered 50, Burton Road.
  The house contains tap-room and bar, with bay windows, hall and vestibule, pantries, large club room, dining room, kitchen, four capital bedrooms, and five excellent cellars in the basement.
 The out-offices comprise brewery, stabling, piggeries and workshop, with walled-in lawn and garden, approached by large entrance gates from Burton Road, and by a private road from Jews Lane. Adjoining is a disused cottage which could readably be converted into a motor garage.
 "The Green Dragon" is the most noted roadside inn in the district, and a well-known house of call, and standing well back from the road affords good standing room for vehicles. It is close to several large fire-brick works in full operation, in the midst of a large population, is well built and worthy of the attention of those seeking a good business house.
Licensees:
1835, John Cartwright. [Whites Directory]
1842, John Cartwright. [Pigots Directory]
1850, John Cartwright. [Post Office Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire & Worcestershire]
1851, John Cartwright, victualler, maltster and hop dealer. [Melville & Co.'s Directory of Wolverhampton]
1860, Richard Cartwright.
1865, Richard Cartwright. [Jones Mercantile Directory]
1868, Joseph Wellings, (& blacksmith). [P.O. Directory]
1876, John Peacock.
1880, John Peacock, & builder. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1881, John Peacock, age 64, occupation victualler & builder. [Census]
1891, James Arthur Fullwood, age 38, mining engineer and publican. [Census]
1896-1904, John Waterfield. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1911, Sold.
1911, Rachel Westwood,. licensed victualler, age 42. [Census]
Rachel's husband William Henry Westwood was noted in the same household as Brewer, aged 32.
1912, Mrs Rachel Westwood. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1916, Joseph W. Homer. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1921, Sarah Homer. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1924, Frederick John Gash. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1928, Edward S. Kimberley. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1936, Howard Smith. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
1939, Howard Smith, b 25 October 1897. [Register]
1940, Howard Smith. [Kelly's Trade Directory]
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