Pub history

The Jolie Brise

Purpose built as a supermarket in the 1970s, these premises stand on the site of Sidney Croydon’s Printing and Publishing Works. Croydon also owned the steam laundry next door. Henrietta Paddon worked in the steam laundry in the early 1900s. In 1925, her husband teamed up with Commander EG Martin to win the first 600-mile Fastnet Race in the gaff-rigged pilot cutter Jolie Brise. She is the only vessel to have won the race three times.