50-52 Snargate Street/Northampton Street

The picture above, is of the old East Kent Brewery's Apollonian Hall and pub house which was an extremely popular feature of Snargate Street before the widening of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

"The Apollonian Hall and Tavern" built in 1839, was on the corner of Snargate Street at number 51, on the same side as the "Royal Hippodrome" and stood opposite Charles Clout. The hall itself, was a public hall, established about 1846 by Mr Henry Stone. It measured only 54 by 36 feet. It included a gallery but seated only eighty people. The Apollonian Hall and the Wellington Hall, further up the street, were the regular places for holding political meetings, concerts and lectures until the Connaught Hall at town hall was built at the Maison Dieu in 1883.

The East Kent Brewery officiated but sometime after 1917. Jude Hanbury are evident.

Demolition proved necessary in October 1929 when dockyard facilities were improved. Its beer store at 3 Commercial Quay may have survived at that time but would have met the same fate eventually.

LICENSEE LIST

STONE Henry 1839-66 end

STONE Henry Thomas 1866 and 1871

NUTT 1872

HARDS A. 1873-77

BROWN W. 1877 and 1882-89+

FAIRLIE Charles Archibald 1891-95

TARLING Harold Maides 1901-1903+

PORT Richard 1906-15 dec'd

JOYCE James B. 1910 dec'd ?

LINELL John 1910-20 end (Royal Apollonian Hall)

BEANE Francis James 1915-18

BUSHELL John 1920-22+

THURSFIELD Arthur B. M. 1923-28 end

MILES George 1928-29 end

CASTLE Edward 1929

CASWELL E. 1929 end

From Bagshaw Directory 1847

From the Post Office Directory 1855

From Melville's Directory 1858

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Post Office Directory 1882

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1889

From the Post Office Directory 1891

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895

From the Post Office Directory 1903

From the Post Office Directory 1913

From the Post Office Directory 1918

From the Post Office Directory 1922

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1923

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1924