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55 Snargate Street

56 Margate Street Bagshaw's Directory 1847 (Spelling mistake?)

 

I have to warn you that my notes are very confused here. I can say that Stephen Court served under this sign in 1791. A "Golden Fleece Tap" was reported on Commercial Quay in 1865. Presuming that to be the same would denote an entrance from two streets. A common practice in the area at the time.

 

A "Golden Fleece" was also reported in Snargate Street in 1862 and a writer describing it in 1856 added "alias Swiss House".

 

A "Fleece Tap" can certainly be eliminated in 1842. It had developed a reputation for doing the wrong thing by then and its licence was refused.

 

Nevertheless a "Fleece Inn Tap" did flourish under the care of Whitnall in 1845 and served up to 1869, when that in its turn was refused a licence renewal. It was also thrown out the following year so I think we can regard that as finish.

 

From the Dover Telegraph, 30 November 1833.

The Anacicontle Society has been revived at the Fleece Tavern, under the presidency of G W Gravener, Esq. An orchestra of amateurs has been formed, and no doubt is entertained of the society's recovering the celebrity it formerly acquired.

 

LICENSEE LIST

COURT Stephen 1791

HARVEY 1805

HARVEY Sarah 1823-28+ Pigot's Directory 1823Pigot's Directory 1828-29

ROSE John 1839 Pigot's Directory 1839

LAKE William 1840+ Pigot's Directory 1840

WHITNALL Frederick 1845 (Fleece Inn Tap)

COTTEREL Joseph 1847 Bagshaw's Directory 1847

HINE Mary Anne 1848 (Fleece Tap)

CLEMENTS Sarah 1850

KRAUNT Henry 1856

GOODMAN Joseph 1857

SAUNTER Mrs 1857

GOODMAN Charles 1858

MATSON John 1865-8

Last pub licensee had BROMLEY John Mark 1870

 

Pigot's Directory 1823From the Pigot's Directory 1823

Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-9

Pigot's Directory 1839From the Pigot's Directory 1839

Pigot's Directory 1840From the Pigot's Directory 1840

 

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