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Over the Sluice in 1823 Pigot's Directory 1823Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Snargate StreetPigot's Directory 1839,

 

 Police reports mention a pub with the sign in Limekiln Street in 1844 and it is known that Tom Williams served from such a house in Snargate Street in 1854. Another traded from Union Street 1792-1838 and Easton served from another in 1805 but I have no address, it could have been any of the above or indeed another as yet unknown.

 

Kentish Post or Canterbury News, Dec. 7 to 10. 1748. Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.

Sale of a privateer at Mr. Thomas Allen’s, at the King’s Arms in Dover, December 19. 1748.

 

I can only assume that the above is from this pub, but with others of the same name in the same area, or indeed the same pub but with differing addresses through the time, this certainly pre-dates any other mention I have of this establishment, so far.

 

From an email received 17 February 2008.

I can add something on the 'King Arms' pub, from a ship sale reported in the Kentish Gazette, this was published in their issue of Friday March 31 to Tuesday, April 4, 1786, (it was published every four days). It states that the sale took place on Thursday, the 6th of April at four o'clock in the afternoon at Mr. Robert Sims's, at the sign of the King's Arms in Dover, of a cutter called the Two Brothers. The auctioneer was Edward Rutter, Bench Street, Dover.

I will no doubt find more for you, either in one of my many notes books or transcripts, or as I go along with my researches, which primarily concern Dover Harbour and its shipping, and anything related to it.

Best wishes

 

Alec Hasenson

 

LICENSEE LIST

ALLEN Thomas 1748+

SIMS Robert 1786-93

EASTON 1805

WILLIAMS Thomas 1823-28+ Pigot's Directory 1823Pigot's Directory 1828-29

CANNABY John 1832-39 Pigot's Directory 1832-34Pigot's Directory 1839

HOUGHTON Isaac 1838?

 

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

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

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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