The Name Of The Hoy And Helmet Pub
A Memory of South Benfleet.
On the left of this photograph is The Hoy & Helmet pub at South Benfleet, which was originally built in the 15th century, with later extensions. The ‘hoy’ of the pub’s intriguing name was a broad, flat-bottomed sailing boat that was used to transport both cargo like farming produce and passengers along the coast and on the Thames; from this came the nautical cry of ‘Ahoy’, used to hail a hoy to stop and take on a passenger. The word ‘helmet’ was added to the name of the pub in 1922, this being the term for the hard on which the boats were drawn up.
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