Strond Street and Custom House Quay

Crosswall. Showing two towers, Clock and Compass - ereced in 1830 and Custom House Quay in background. To the left of Pickfords is also shown E Rutley Mowll, Wine and Spirit Merchants. Photo by kind permission of Dover Library Ill/5477.

Barry Smith found and reported that this obliged customers in 1791 and the Hipgrave family were in residence for at least forty years from 1823. It was a family and commercial hotel and the "Gun Tap" was an appurtenance which we know was present in 1864-65. However, Alec Hasenson found mention of it as far back as 1748. (See above).

The Pigot's directory 1840 lists it as the "Victoria and Gun Hotel, opposite the sea, Strond Street and Customhouse Quay.

I never managed to connect a brewer with this one and the licence was discontinued from 1904. The house itself had meanwhile been taken down in July 1903.

LICENSEE LIST

STEPHENS William 1791

DAVIS 1805

HIPGRAVE George 1823-53

HITCHCOCK Great 1857 ?

HART James (Gun Hotel) 1857 ?

HIPGRAVE George 1862-64 dec'd

HIPGRAVE Miss or Mrs. 1865-70

WESTON Mrs Ann Elizabeth 1871

KITTELL William (Gun Hotel) 1873

KITTELL John William 1874-80 end

SHEPPARD Alfred 1880-82

DILLON John 1883-1903

BREWER Alan 1883 end

From the Pigot's Directory 1823

From Batchellor's New Dover Guide 1828

From the Pigot's Directory 1828-9

From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

From the Pigot's Directory 1839

From the Pigot's Directory 1840

From Bagshaw Directory 1847

From Melville's Directory 1858

From the Post Office Directory 1862

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Post Office Directory 1882

From the Post Office Directory 1891

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895

From the Kelley's Directory 1899

From the Post Office Directory 1903