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Seven Star Street

Great Street Pigot's Directory 1828-29Pigot's Directory 1832-34Pigot's Directory 1839

 

A licensed house in 1805 but the address in 1826 and 1832 was reported as Great Street.

 

It was still active in 1840 when an unusual story came to my attention. A young lad, Richard Dowle, was apprehended during the process of collecting horse droppings outside the premises. He was fined fourteen shillings and apparently he was lucky that time. He had previously been gaoled for the same offence.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, November 10 – 13, 1789. Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.

Auction of a house and shop, November 17, 1789, at the sign of the Hovelling Boat, in Dover.

 

From the Dove Telegraph, 12 December 1840.

It is generally supposed that a collier belonging to Mr. John Harvey, landlord of the "Hovelling Boat," is lost, as she has not been heard of for some time. The name of the vessel is the "Kent," formally a Hoy between this port and London.

 

(A collier is a ship type or bulk cargo ship which carried coal and a Hoy is a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight.)

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

BARRAS Mrs 1805

BROCKMAN William 1823-39 Next pub licensee had Pigot's Directory 1823Pigot's Directory 1828-29Pigot's Directory 1832-34Pigot's Directory 1839

HARVEY John 1840+

BROWN James 1842-43 Next pub licensee had

HOLIMAN 1851

KEMP Priscilla 1854-55

KEMP William 1857

 

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

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

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

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

 

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