Historic Pubs of Dover: A Journey Through Time

Adam and Eve.

Chapel Street. (Upwall)
A victualling house of 1545.

Admiral.

9 Beach Street and Seven Star Street.
Known previously as the “Seven Stars Inn” but recognised as the “Admiral” from 1875. It was sold by Satchell in 1881 together with the Westcliff Brewery and his other outlets. This passed to Bower of Rye for £470. Charles Wittams joined the house in 1877 and was probably still present in 1897 when the name changed to the “Miners Arms”.

Admiral Harvey
13 Bridge Street.
The bridge that gave the street its name was built in 1829. The house on the north side appeared about that time. This was well established by 1857 very much a country pub and kept by Mr Care who supplemented his bar takings by the sale of dairy produce, largely gleaned from his own surrounding pasture land.
The annual fair used to be held on part of those pastures and as it eventually attracted the undesirable element of society, the magistrates were quick to point out that the practice was putting his licence in jeopardy. Later as the land passed to the Eagle estate the keeper of that house received like warning.
This lease expired in 1903 and plans to rebuild at a provisional cost of £1,000 were approved in January that year. Obviously progressed with some alacrity also because the new pub whilst the old were still being pulled down.
History tells us a bomb fell into this pub on 22 August 1917 but does not describe the resulting damage. Further scars developed in world war two and approval was given, in June 1949, for repairs to be implemented at a cost of £217. Bridge Street was widened in 1903, at a cost of £500, which would have altered the numbers, so they were renumbered again, more intelligently it is said about1915. A Whitbread house.

Albion.
Albion Place.
The Place was said to be named after the pub and the Place itself was described as a court off Chapel Place. The pub later became the “Carpenters Arms”. The whole area had been designated for slum clearance in 1937 and that year much of the property was empty and ready for demolition. The war that followed and the subsequent housing shortage extended their life however by another thirty years.

Albion.
57-8 East Cliff.
A different brewer supplied from 1859 when it sold for £355. Five a.m. opening was permitted from 1898, which meant that it joined seventeen other houses enjoying that privilege. Another eighteen were opening at three thirty a.m. With respect to this house that concession was withdrawn the following year. Its close proximity to the sea and cliffs naturally attracted the attention the attention of 1the smuggling fraternity and two flint cottages in the rear have been used as a cellar and decorated as a smugglers cave. Some trouble in the past from cliff falls necessitating the closure in October 1967 but reopening in June 1968, the cliff meanwhile being trimmed to prevent a reoccurrence. One of Gardener’s which passed to Whitebread.

Albion
Hawkesbury Street.
A free house by agreement between Gardner the supplier and the tenant. The street was built on land reclaimed from the sea. The old harbour of Paradise Pent succumbed to silt and shingle which accumulating over years, provided land for building about 1800. It was a classified hotel when traced in 1823 and it was fully licensed. A strong body was active in the town early this century and they reminded the Justices at every opportunity of their responsibilities under the Compensation Act.
This was brought to their notice first in 1909 and again in 1911. It boasted three bars
with a clubroom over. The authorities were faced with the task of cleaning the area for redevelopment and that meant their opposition to the licence was added to that of others that year. The estimated population of the district at that time was 2,135. There were 498 houses and 427 of them still occupied. Twenty-four of them were licensed. In close proximity to the “Albion” was the “Railway Inn” 34 yards away, the “Shakespeare 1Inn” 190, yards away, likewise the “Swan”. The “Pavilion” 116 yards the “Archcliffe Fort Inn” 118 yards, the “Hotel de Paris” 119 yards the “Lion”138 the “Granville Inn” 132, and the “Two Brewers” 149 yards.

Alhambra Music Hall.
Market Square.
Situated in the rear of the “Hero Tavern”. John Barker managed it up to 1863 when it was destroyed by fire together with the tavern.

Alma.
37 Folkestone Road.
Once an outlet of Thompson and Son and the number once read 19. It changed when various terraces were incorporate which may suggest the origin of the road.
The battle of Alma was fought in 1854 may suggest the origin and many troops returned here from the Crimea in 1856. In 1858 Mrs Paramour was rising early to open the doors at five a.m. Two pubs with this title were reported in 1856. The first in Laureston Place and the other in Snargate Street. A Charringon outlet.

Almond Tree.
Laureston Place.
In 1839 this was kept by John Stone. He is known to have kept two other houses in this street during the last century.

American Stores.
8 Last Lane.
A new licence was granted to Beard in 1864. Mr James arrived on the premises the following year his first act was to change the name to “Who’d a Thought it”.

Anchor.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of 1545 kept by Simon Fry.

Anchor of Hope.
Snargate Street.
It is only known that W. Semen served here in 1854-5.

Ancient Druids
11 Stembrook.
A Fremlin outlet at the close that was probably in 1940 when licensee Frank Ashbee was killed by enemy action. Its earlier sign, when purchased by James Poulter in 1844, had been “Prince of Orange”. The end is a mystery. This was demolished by February 1952.

Angel.
54 High Street.
An “Angel Inn” kept by William Green, was listed in the 1545 census, but no address given. In the same list was shown “The Angel”Victualling House and that was situated Upwall, (Chapel Street), and was supervised by George Matthew. Francis Serlis in St. James Street ran another victualling house with the same name. Also in the nineteenth century an “Angel Inn” stood in Townwall Street and that property later became the “Granville Hotel”. William Dinnage can trace the house now under discussion to 1942. It closed finally on the 3rd May 1969, the property itself disappearing in September 1981. Victor Williams the last licensee.

Anglesey Arms.
Priory Street.
Known earlier as the “Royal George” that licence was withheld in 1859 but George Baker impressed the Bench sufficiently the following year to effect reopening. The name would have changed at that time and the public still drank there in1865.

Antwerp Tap.
Cannon Street.
This one functioned as early as 1839 but disappeared during the street widening of 1893.

Apollonian Hotel.
50-51 Snargate Street.
“The Apollonian Hall and Tavern” built in 1839 was on the same side of the street as the “Royal Hippodrome”. The hall itself, which was number 51 measured only 54 by 36 feet. It included a gallery but seated only eighty people. In spite of that it was a popular rendezvous for meetings and concerts up to 1883 when the Connaught Hall opened. 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.

Archcliffe Fort Inn

5a Bulwark Street and Limekiln Street.
The nearby fort that at one time dominated the whole was largely demolished in 1927-8. It was a defensive measure instigated by Henry VIII at the same time as the Mote Bulwark along the seashore. The formation of Bulwark Street commenced about 1800 but the origin of the pub is thought to be 1857. Referred to as “Carter’s Archcliffe Fort Inn” suggests that James Carter was the first keeper. He handed over to Parfitt in 1873.
The business moved slightly in 1914 when new premises were built in the same street, but a few yards distant on the site of a former shop. The first viaduct crossing the railway lines opened to traffic in 1922 but were replaced in the seventies with the spur to Bulwark Street discontinued.
In 1924, Leney proposed the transfer of this licence to a new pub he intended building in Limekiln Street. The plans for that and the licence transfer were authorised in June 1925 when the new building was nearing completion. In 1989 saw this outlet of Whitbread-Fremlin closed and boarded up. An extension of the motorway to the Western docks area in the next few years is expected to call for its removal.

Ark.
Beach Street and Great Street.
Licensee in 1805-Goodburn, Henry McKeen in 1856 and Emery from Deal in 1859. Some opposition to the renewal in 1863 and is believed to be the last year of trading.

Arlington.
161 Snargate Street.
Formerly the “Perseverance” and the “Avenue” Paul Barrett bought the property and following alterations, reopened it as a free house with this sign in October 1981. Further alterations followed in 1983.

Arms of England.

In 1545, Henry V111 a frequent visitor to the town, ruled that all inns and taverns, victualling houses etc. in the Borough should have painted signs on boards one foot square hung over their hall doors so that the public might more readily recognise them. This house of John Bowles already complied with the decree.

Army and Navy.
162 Snargate Street.
Present in 1854 with Ferdinand Galanti in attendance he having moved here from the “Harbour Ale Shades”. Its neighbour at one time would have been the “William and John” beer house. The Shah of Persia visiting this country landed at Dover in June 1873. William Hobday no doubt liking to keep abreast of events promptly changed the name to “Shah of Persia”. Its former name would have been equally apt in view of its position but it was said to be frequently at variance with the law and it is a fact that a new name could work wonders under those circumstances.

Avenue.
161 Snargate Street.
Formerly the “Perseverance” the sign changed between 1885 and 1890. It closed for the duration of world war two. On 4th October 1940 but was reactivated by Fred Hendy in 1945. Whitbread sold it after the death of Fred Dunster in 1980. He had a model of all world war two RAF planes hanging from the ceiling. Following alterations and renovation it reopened as a free house in October 1981 as the “Arlington”.

Barley Mow.
58 Strond Street.
Facing the dockyard, numbers 51 to 58 were a continuation of Commercial Quay and were removed with those properties in 1929-30.
A sheaf suggests an appropriate sign but the name could have associations with Barley Mow Passage, which separated 81, and 83 Snargate Street. Its neighbour would have been the “Union Hotel” which disappeared in the same purge, apparently going first because in early in 1930 the “Barley Mow” and the “New Commercial Quay Inn” were the only two pubs still open in the area designated for clearance.
An outlet of George Beer at the close, it was in the care of Jack Cesar in 1805.
Five a.m. opening was allowed from 1881 but by 1900 that was extended to three thirty a.m. David Torr in 1890 had fourteen pounds of tobacco on the premises, which the revenue men considered he had not declared. Apart from his fine of £5. 10s. and the loss of his right to draw, the Bench seem to have overstepped their authority when they refused the licence transfer to another member of the trade. By access to higher channels, James Dolbear effected a reopening here in October that year.
But the end result! It was closed by February 1930 and had disappeared for good by April. The brewer’s compensation was £4,548 and licensee, Mrs Mary Hunt got £475. She moved the same year to the “Salutation”.

Battle of Britain.
West Street.
Formerly the “Carriers Arms” which was closed on 1st October 1988 it was reopened with this sign on 6th July 1991 by Barry Norman and Les Holness.

Beaconsfield Arms.
3 Adrian Street.
A fully licensed house and an outlet of the East Kent Brewery Company Sandwich, James Middleton present in 1883. Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield returned to England via Dover in 1878 that may have influenced the title.
It was considered surplus to requirements in 1910, together with the “Milestone” “Pier Inn” and “Neptune Hall”. During that year £2,373 was paid in compensation but this survived a little longer. Its licence was not renewed in June 1911 and the brewer, who was the lessee, was eventually compensated with £603. Fred Sawkins the keeper got £20 and the freehold owner £141. The street was rebuilt completely in 1937.
Beer Inn.

Was listed in 1545 but no address was given.

Beehive.
166 Snargate Street.
A licensed house prior to 1832 and Dover Harbour Board were the proprietors when it was auctioned in May 1859. The lease of 61 years had commenced in April 1834. The (unknown) buyer paid £550. George Eastman was still dispensing drinks there in 1870 but then the picture fades. It is thought the premises later becoming the “Lord Roberts”.

Bell.
23 St. James Street.
An alehouse prior to 1835 but refused a victualling licence that year. Certainly operative again by 1847 when mentioned in police reports. In the process of recording the pubs this phrase may be used often so before going any further to point out that no sinister significance should be conjured by the remark. It usually meant that the owner was assisting the constabulary, or more likely an inquest was being held on the premises. By 1852, still thriving, in the no doubt charming hands of Mrs Susannah Handsomeboddie, and for the next sixty years, no licensee hurried from this one. It was closed finally by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910, on 30th December 1916. Compensation of £1, 035 meant that George Beer and company of the Star Brewery, Canterbury received £880. William Mays, the tenant received £155. Fully licensed at the closure.

Bell and Crown.
Commercial Quay.
G. Pelling 1832.

Bell and Lion.
Adrian Street.
An outlet of Wright, it had been known as the “Great Mogul Tavern”. George Burnett came here from the “Cambridge Arms” in 1867 and may have made the change. It was not a very lucky choice. Disorderly behaviour brought about the closure in 1877.
Somebody was lucky enough to get the licence reinstated the following year but from then it was restricted to six days trading and the name changed once more to “Northumberland Arms”.

Bird in Hand
Charlton.
Ann Spratt 1842.

Black Anchor.
A victualling house of 1545. William Lorne.

Black Horse.
Blenheim Square.
Known previously as the “Queen Victoria” the alteration was made by James Bennett in 1865. In 1826 Richard Barton was reputed to have a “Black Horse” in Lower Street.

Black Horse.
Bridge Street.
A beer house of Leney that opened at some time between 1840 and 1869. Travelling towards Charlton from Tower Hamlets the house would be on your right. Previous to 1916 the number was 44. The site remained the same. It was an effort on the part of somebody to improve the street numbering. Unfortunately its new denomination proved unlucky. Before the paint was dry it had been declared redundant and compensation was paid in 1915 as follows. Sarah Dennis the owner got £698.10s. Leney and company got £109and the tenant Harry Clark got £95. 10s.

Black Horse.
London Road.
This tavern stood opposite to where the gallows once stood. They were used the last time in 1823. The “Eagle” its tea gardens extended towards Buckland occupied the site of the tavern and they were auctioned together with the tavern on September 1839. Demolition quickly followed the sale and the “Eagle” appeared shortly afterwards. At the same time of its demise William Dawkins kept the tavern. Earlier in 1805 kept by Robinson.

Black Pig.

Limekiln Street.
Present in 1792. The name changed after 1827 to “Newcastle Arms”

Blue Anchor.
Round Tower Street.
A seventeenth century token bore the inscription “TKD, The Blew Anker at Dover Docks”. That house was said to stand in Round Tower Street and to have been removed shortly before 1892. Most if not the entire street would have disappeared when the South Eastern Railway was joined to the London and Chatham Railway about 1879.

Blue Post.
Bulwark Street.
James Marsh secured the spirit licence in 1863. Donnard had the seat of honour in 1865.

Boars Head.
46-8 Eaton Road.
Later passing to Fremlin but the groundwork here is credited to Leney. In 1900 he applied for an off licence, the house then being under construction. He met with refusal but Mr. Cheeseman the tenant did occupy the premises on 11th August that year. The road was complete the following year and the houses let. His second application asked for an “on” licence, together with plans for the adjoining house to be incorporated. He agreed to surrender the “Round Tower Inn” if the request was granted so with diplomacy of that nature where was the magistrate who could say no? From Whitbread to Dominque McHugh as a free house December 1990.

Bonny Lass.
Seven Star Street.
Present 1858.

Bowling Green Tavern.
41 Hartley Street.
A fully licensed Fremlin pub on the corner with Durham Hill. Certainly there in 1842 and there is evidence of Harry marsh keeping another with this sign in 1805.
William Spratt witnessed the closure in 1937 when the district became a slum clearance area. Leney managed to transfer the licence to Aycliffe House in April 1938, thus allowing the “King Lear” to open. A “Bowling Green House” adjoined Military Road, was reported as trading in 1826-32.

Brewers Arms.
Limekiln Street.
A lease that commenced in 1866 existed between the Harbour Board and John Oram. It is also known that that Browning moved to here from the “Red Cow” a year later. It was an outlet of George Sidney Page it is thought that lease marked its first connection with the trade. It is never wise to presume. It later came to light that Kate Sandford of the “Brewers Arms” in 1805 served you with some good purl if desired, or a mug of Fenner’s Canterbury beer.

Bricklayers Arms.
Biggin Street.
Kept in 1845 by the widow Boyce but no further information noted. Bear in mind however that Brockman kept one with this sign in 1805. The one managed by Houghton in 1852 was part of Charlton.

Bricklayers Arms.
75 Snargate Street.
A new licence was given to Hadderley or Halliday, in 1864 confirms the title then, but when the premises were handed over by Birch in 1875 it was known as “Sir Garnet Wolseley”. Efforts were made that year to transfer the licence of the “Prince of Hesse” to here but the reason is obscure. Perhaps a reopening or maybe a fuller licence. It is suggested that from 1852 the sign had been “beehive” but the number does not support that Supposition. It is a fact that this was an alehouse in 1869 but probably a beer house by 1872. The brewer then would have been C. Dickenson of Folkestone. The “Beehive” would have belonged to Walker up to 1859 but as that sign continued to 1870 there is no obvious connection. Apologies, if it is any consolation the trade itself as well as the justices, went into a flat spin themselves over this one. That was the main reason in 1898 for changing the name to “Lord Roberts”.

Brickmaker’s Arms.
Buckland Bottom.
This name in the nineteenth century referred to the land through which Coombe Valley Road now passes. A brickfield did exist on your left after leaving London Road and that no doubt influenced the title.

Britannia
Commercial Quay.
A beer house under the patronage of Mrs Harriet Evans in 1866.

Britannia
52 London Road (Buckland Street)
Active in 1841 but by 1878 the sign had changed to “Volunteer”

Britannia.
41 Townwall Street.
Formerly the “Wine Lodge” which was taken down in March 1961. The larger premises were then erected and opened to the public on 26th March 1962. In charge of rum issues at the opening was Edwin Perry, who had kept the previous house for sixteen years and served for another eight here before handing over to his son in 1970. He in turn handing over to his son in 1975.With a Whitbread bar it occupies a corner with Mill Lane. Following redevelopment of the area post war, the new Townwall Street, with its duel carriageway is six times wider than its predecessor. Unfortunately, coupled with its residential accompaniment its effect is to separate the town from its seafront.

British Arms.

It looks as though Mrs Little could have reopened this in the 1800’s when she received a new licence. Speaking generally now and not referring to this or any other particular house, it might be appropriate to refer to the stricter laws now being enforced. Prostitutes were under constant surveillance and were shadowed by specially trained personnel connected with the Contagious Disease Act. Further to that, persons caught drinking out of hours were now liable to prosecution and fines as well as the person who served them. Like the motorist in later years, the publican was governed by the totting up procedure.

British Lion.
John Waller in 1846.

British Queen.
76 Biggin Street.
A rather vague title this. Present in Victoria’s reign in 1852. The number was always 81 in earlier years. Around 1900 some of the surrounding properties were renewed, no doubt on a granular scale. Redevelopment saw the closure of the pub on 12th November 1975. The property itself disappeared in November 1979.

British Tar.
27 Tower Hamlets Street.
It is known that Mary Monday served here in 1847 and that would have been something like twenty years before the other houses appeared. We are also told that four beer houses were in the area at the turn of the century. The name conjures up many possibilities. By 1878, it had changed to “Dewdrop” but on the other hand a certain John Russell was said to be serving at a “British Tar” in 1879.

Broad Axe.
Biggin Street.
Another one before our time. A victualling house of 1545 with Margery Wilsher your hostess.

Brown Jug.
Mount Pleasant.
Any book would be incomplete without this one. Ann Parker in 1840.

Brussels Inn.
3 Beach Street.
About 1848 it was known as “Hotel de Brussels” and by 1854 as the “Bruxells
Inn”. It already opened at three thirty a.m. by 1874 but after 1900 that became five a.m. Henry Pay received a new licence here in 1845. £5,690 was spent on the acquisition of licensed property in 1914. Unfortunately the electorate, and indeed many of the councillors themselves were not well informed, so we can only guess that the “Brussels Inn” was included in that figure. The same reasoning would apply to the “Sceptre” and the “Lion” being involved. Obviously not the whole sum but compensation of £187. 10s was proposed for this inn but a later reappraisal raised that to £200.
It was fully licensed and the last tenant was Gilbert Deverson, originally from Wingham who had served since 1907 and moved after the closure to the “Shakespeare Inn”. The licence was allowed to lapse.

Bull.
168 London Road.
John Smith kept the “Bull” in Dover in 1791 and another publican called Welch in 1832. It has to be said however, that this particular house had been known previously to 1839 as the “Rose” and the “Three Horseshoes”. A very good painting or print showing the house and the bridge by William Burgess has its place on the walls. Mine host opened the doors at five a.m. from 1876 to 1900.
The local authority was anxious to widen the bridge in 1939 and in fact the properties nearest to it had been removed in 1938. The further intention was to purchase the “Bull” for £2,650 plus fees and effect a change of land with the owners so that a new pub could be erected. The necessary plans for that were approved in August 1939 but the war that followed prevented any further progress. By 1952 the bridge had been sufficiently widened anyway without further demolition being considered necessary. An interesting analogy perhaps is the deeds of the last century that describe the inn as standing in its own grounds with stables and orchard. Following world war two reinstatement of war damage costing £250 was authorised in September 1949 but a request to enlarge the premises in 1962 was rejected by the planning committee of the Council. A Whitbread-Fremlin establishment.

Burlington Bars.
Woolcomber Street.
These are integral part of the “Burlington Hotel”, once the “Clarence Hotel” where building commenced in 1864 at a cost of £750,000. It was renamed the “Imperial Hotel” in 1867 when the lease changed hands. It reached five storeys high and boasted 240 rooms. The stables were in the same street but were later replaced by garages in rear of hotel. Never a viable proposition, it closed in 1871 and the following extensive alterations, reopened in 1897 as the “Burlington Hotel” In 1924 the owners Frederick hotels closed down and opted instead to invest in the “Lord Warden Hotel” which was better situated to cater for cross channel passengers.
The “Burlington Hotel” was used for many and varied activities after, with the bars now integrated into the Burlington Mansions complex, which it became in 1931 when converted into fifty flats. It was an early casualty of world was two. The tower was struck in 1940 and shortly afterwards, in October 1940; another struck the huge water tank on the roof. It seemed inconceivable that the five bombs that hit the hotel on 7th September 1941 could have been delivered from one plane so it was presumed that the bombs had been chained together. Howbeit, the structure was left in such a dangerous condition that dynamite had to be employed to partially self-destruct. Post war, fire on the upper floors in January 1946 resulted in further damage and demolition of the whole proved necessary. That took place in 1949, together with 8 Camden Crescent, the contractor paying £130 for the privilege.
Dover Corporation paid £4, 575 for the site in 1951 and an additional £315 the liquor licence of the “Burlington Buffet” was transferred to Watney, Combe and Reid, brewers, who later used it as the “Dover Stage Hotel ”. The post war years saw redevelopment of the whole area.

Burlington Inn.

75 Castle Street and 6 Church Street.
An old one this. Adopting the standard of inn when the spirit licence was granted in 1842. The bars could be utilised from the two streets and thus two publicans were involved during part of its history. In 1872 an interesting proposition was put to the Bench by Mr Joyce. He suggested that his licence at the “Rose and Shamrock” be transferred here but not at that particular time, it would seem his wishes were eventually gratified because he shows as the patron in 1874. This establishment spent much of its life out of bounds to troops. Not for it’s misdemeanours I hasten to add. The civil and military authorities found the premises difficult to supervise. It was referred to the Compensation Authority in 1939 that may have meant curtains. I have no knowledge. If it was still present then, its removal could have been early in 1945 when demolition did affect that area. At the close it would have been the property of George Beer and Rigden.

Butchers Arms.
Market Street.
This later became the “Duchess of Kent”. Little is known apart from the fact that it was there in 1690 and the sign changed in 1835.

Cambridge Arms.
Adrian Street.
This would be the top house on your left moving towards the sixty-four steps. In my notes I see that I have tentatively pencilled in number 27. The address of the “Cambridge Music Hall” and the “Cambridge Hall” were also Adrian Street so I guess one and the same. The six-day licence was forfeited in 1870 following conviction for Sunday trading.

Canterbury Bell.
59 Tower Hamlets Street.
A beer house of George Beer Star Brewery Canterbury and that is the only reason I can advance for the unusual name. No doubt a pretty sign. The closure here came on 28th December 1908 when the authorities considered it surplus to requirements.
A description at the time mentioned two front bars but no parlour. A large room was available in the rear. Sixty-five cottages comprised the street at the time but nine unoccupied. George Beer and Company received £932 in compensation and Albert Shorter the tenant £100.

Captain Webb.
163 Folkestone Road.
Part of Webbs Hotel was utilised to provide the town with a new pub that opened on Wednesday 12th July 1989. The owners Elefttherios Elefteriades (Terry) and his wife Jean. It featured a mock raftered ceiling, centrally cited heating arrangements with hooded flue and the large front window incorporated two circular sections that depicted Dover castle and the white cliffs. I suspect the admirable surrounding would have been looked on with envy by some other pubs. The title commemorates Matthew Webb who swam the Dover Strait in twenty-two hours in 1875. He lost his life eight years later when attempting to swim the Niagara rapids.

Carpenter’s Arms.

Some of the old writers were able to say a great deal with a few well-chosen words.
The author will not be alive today but living relatives will forgive I hope by quoting this example. “Nearby to Albion Place stood a pub called “The Albion” later renamed “The Carpenter’s Arms”. The same author informed us that the street was named after the pub. I did not pursue that any further but the more zealous amongst you might bear in mind that a “Carpenter’s Arms” later became “The Cause is Altered”.

Carpenter’s Arms.

Peter Street. (St. Peter’s Street)
Travelling towards Charlton from the High Street the premises would have been on your left. Luke Stephens served in 1841 but by 1877 there were joint owners Cottenham and Flavins Kingsford. They attempted that year to transfer the licence to Clarendon. (Probably 26 Clarendon Place). They were prevented from doing so and this pub was closed the following year anyway when rowdiness and prostitutes were alleged. It does not seem to have opened again. Tenants were shy of this.

Carriers Arm’s.
12 West Street.
This appears as a beer house on ordnance survey maps of 1871 and it would have been one of the last in the town to relinquish that role. Peter Beer obtained a wine licence in 1947. Application for a spirit licence had been refused as long ago as 1880.
It had closed its doors for the duration of world war two in September 1940 but it was the same Peter Beer who reopened in 1941. Within five minutes walking distance were the Eagle, Friend in Need, White Lion, Dewdrop and Imperial Crown so it was remarkable that the establishment kept its head above water to 1988. On the 1st October that year Fremlin decided to close. Its last licensee was Brian Porter. Following extensive alterations alteration and renovation it reopened under a new sign, “The Battle of Britain” on 6th July 1991. Barry Norman and Les Holness.

Castle.

Dolphin Lane & Russell Street.

This Whitbread house was known previously as the “White Hart” and as such served the public long before Russell Street was formed in 1838. Regrettably on 13th August the licensee’s mother accidentally overturned a paraffin lamp. The consequent blaze destroyed the interior and it is tempting to say that the name changed when it was restored and reopened some years later. There is no evidence to support that theory.
Chapman, Gibbon and Chapman purchased it in 1898 that traded as George Beer and Company. Enemy action closed the pub on June 5th 1942 but Brinley Critchley reopened it on 5th June 1950. Much renovation and modernisation has taken place since 1963 but the pub retains much of its old character for all that.

Cat and Mutton

Spring Lane. (Cat and Mutton Lane)
Kept by widow Garrison in 1760, it was one of a row of houses which faced a swamp of mud and rushes where might be seen a duck. Charming!

Cause is Altered.
13 Queen Street.
Known previously as the “Blacksmith’s Arms” and later as the “Carpenter’s Arms”, it was the property of Mackeson at the close. On the corner of Princess Street, it was licensed prior to 1826 and was said at the end to be at least three hundred years old. It was reputedly part of the local smuggling chain at one time and an underground tunnel was said to connect it with at least one other pub in that connection. It stood just inside the town wall at Cow Gate and a stone in the wall of the pub informed the public that the gate was removed in 1776. Various theories have been advanced concerning the name. Some thought it was changed to appease Cromwell in 1649, others suggested it marked its end with the smuggling fraternity but perhaps more likely, the name descended from “Cows and Halters”. It is fairly certain that it was the “Carpenter’s Arms” in 1805. The last drinks were served on 22nd March 1969. Some local groups would have liked the walls left standing but the authorities decided in September 1972 that the walls must come down. The walls contained two plaques that may well have been preserved. It was said at the time that the site was needed to house one end of a pedestrian bridge and on that assumption the demolition was authorised by Dover Corporation in March 1973. By August of 1991 little of interest has yet materialised on the site.

Chance.
Adrian Street.
Situated between Chapel Street and Five Post Lane, two old thoroughfares that disappeared in the early seventies managed by Spice in 1838 and an outlet of Leney by 1847. The police, military and civil, were not fond of this one. People they wished to speak to had the habit of disappearing over the back wall. I felt certain in my mind that the house was closed in 1868 in order that the “Liberty” might open.
Certainly the licence was refused that year but there must have been a successful appeal because the public were served for another fourteen years at least.

Chandos.
38 Townwall Street.
The sign of the “Liverpool Arms” was taken down sometime between 1895 and 1901. It sold for £2,500 in 1906 when it parted company with C. L. Adams and it was fronted in 1929. It closed for the duration of hostilities in October 1940 and never reopened. Reinstatement of war damage was refused in December 1950 and a compulsory purchase order was made in January 1954 and confirmed in May 1955. By then it was for the former site of the “Chandos”. It became the property of the town when compensation of £770 was paid. In return the town envisaged a converted value payment of £620.

Chequers.

It is only known that Ned Hollingsworth kept a house so named in 1805.

Cherry Tree.
92 London Road (Buckland Street)
This was said to be the first house in Buckland to be lit by gas, in April 1847. A cherry tree had its place in the rear garden and Cherry Tree Lane stood nearby. That became an avenue in 1895 when it was widened by the Dover firm of Austen and Lewis at a cost of £1,129. I would be reluctant to take sides in an argument but I have read that it could be the only building between the “Black Horse” and Buckland Bridge in 1911. It is known that cock fighting took place here under this sign in 1785. As an outlet of Whitbread it was enlarged by Sam Abbott in the late nineteen seventies when he incorporated an adjoining property.

Cinque Ports Arms.
9 Clarence Place.
As an outlet of Walker previous to 1814, the sign was “Coach and Horses”. An examination of the beams in the sixties of the twentieth century, led to conclusions that the property was over three hundred years old. A pair of shoes with turned up toes, as worn by the jesters of the day was discovered in the brickwork. Further corroboration was provided in January 1982 when internal alterations brought to light a large fireplace or inglenook of the early sixteenth century. Perhaps also of interest was the opion of the experts at that time that the cellar may well have been part of a previous building. It certainly shows on Harbour Board maps of 1624 but it is not possible to confirm with the trade that year. The thoroughfare itself had been known as King’s Head Street but by 1676 was referred to as Crane Street or Crane Quay. The houses opposite the pub fronted by a quay thirty-five feet wide. They were taken down between 1812-1814. Some may have survived 1822. I would not know if it applied to the particular houses but up to 1812 the leases in that area were for twenty-one years. After that many were for sixty-one years. Prints do exist one does still have its place on the wall here, which shows boats moored opposite them. So to 1859 when the business, yard and stabling was on offer. Its 61-year lease had commenced in 1834. either then, or privately afterwards, Leney have gained control.
Four a.m. opening was allowed here from 1874 and that became three-thirty, two years later. Plus structural alterations were approved in 1921.
Together with its neighbour the “Rose and Crown” this stood in the middle of a vast freight clearing area in the seventies and eighties. 1986 saw the of the later and it remained empty and derelict until mid 1988 when it was repaired and refurbished and became part of the “Cinque Port Arms”. The original order for stopping up part of Clarence Place, Elizabeth Street and Council House Street was made in October 1968. The demolition of Beach Street and the flats in Seven Star Street, which was first formed in 1607 was carried out in

Cinque Ports Volunteer.
Snargate Street.
Previous to 1862 this was the “Volunteer Hotel”. It was closed for misconduct in 1869 and was not allowed to reopen the following year.

City of Antwerp Hotel
Market Square.
It was a free house but was supplied by Gardner. As the church of St Peters made its exit from the Square the hotel adopted its site. That could have been at any time after 1600, although some parts of the church still remained in 1611. We do know that the hotel was well established by March 1799. The stables covered the ground where Castle Street now enters the Square and they were purchased by the town for £3,100 in July 1837. The opening into Castle Street had already been made in March that year whilst negotiations proceeded. Other stables must have taken their place but I have know knowledge where. They were certainly rebuilt in 1881and supervised by Williams of 18 Church Street. In 1901 they show at 61 Castle Street, managed by Laslett and an Antwerp Garage was demolished in Castle Street in October 1964. I do not know of any association. In 1882 coaches ran to the hotel from Denton every Wednesday and Saturday returning the same day. Coaches from Sibertswold ran only on Saturdays to this address. The widening of Cannon Street in 1892-3 called for the removal of this property and it disappeared in 1893 the licence passing to the town. Compensation of £7,046. 4s. 5d. was made to the owner and £1,791. 7s. 9d. to the licensee. The tenants were offered and accepted £1,600 and Mr Spicer received £1, 845.

City of Charlton
Charlton Green.
Well, hope spring eternal and you must hand it to the person who conjured up this name. More surprising still though, was its former name, the “Maxton Arms”. The change was at the instigation of James Coveny who dispensed in 1856.
That is the last year I have knowledge of it.

City of Edinburgh.
St. James Street.
Two houses were converted to establish this pub in between the years 1750 and 1760. In 1775 it was purchased by John Iken (or Jeken) and John Coleman, brewers who later amalgamated with Edward Rutley. At some time previous to 1792, the sign had changed to “White Horse” and still plays an active part in the life of the town today.

City of London Hotel.

38 Council House Street & Round Tower Street.
Kept by Steriker in 1805 when it was served from two entrances in both streets.
That establishment was completely destroyed by fire on 12th January 1810. In 1845 it reappears as the “City of London Hotel” but by 1877 it is “Hotel de Londres.”
The “Packet Boat Inn” and “London Hotel” in nearby Strond Street is set to confuse the researcher of today. It was often referred to as the “London Hotel” and “Packet
Boat. Chapman ran coaches from the hotel to London but I suggest that would have been after 1785. Eagle coaches made the run from here during the early nineteenth century calling at the “Kings Head” and the “Providence Hotel”. Coaches from the hotel to Ham Street in 1878 picked up at the “Flying Horse Inn” and the “Red Cow Inn”. Herne Bay Pier opened in 1882. (My notes also say 1873 and I also note that paddle steamers operated London to Margate and Ramsgate from 1824). *Whatever, the Mazeppa coach was said to leave the “London Hotel” and the “Ship Hotel” every morning to rendezvous with the packets there. Passengers had the opportunity to continue the journey by sea if they wished. The hotel was taken down in 1885 and the Dover Artizans Dwellings, (Victoria Dwellings) were built on the site, opening in 1886. Those premises in turn after being partially destroyed by a bomb on February 2nd 1941 were demolished in December 1968 to provide road freight clearance facilities by Customs and Excise.

City of London Tap.
Round Tower Street.
A case of big fleas having little fleas. Present in 1849 apparently an offshoot of the larger establishment. The Bench did not condone that and ruled in 1852 that it could not be covered by the hotel licence and must be regarded as a separate entity. Well the owner does not seem to have had any difficulty in obtaining his own licence and drinks were still being served in 1861 and perhaps later. Further research shows the pier and jetty at Herne Bay being authorised in 1831 and the vessels by 1835.

Clarence Hotel.
39 Council House Street.
A neighbour of the “London Hotel” is the first observation. My notes inform that a new licence was provided for the reopening in 1852 and the new lease for 61 years commencing on 6th April 1867, was made later between Dover Harbour Board and William Pascall. Clarence Place stood nearby and the Duke of Clarence later William 1V was frequent visitors to the town. This outlet of Kingsford passed to George Beer and Company. It was fully licensed but was declared redundant in 1911. Total compensation of £788 was agreed in October that year. £140 went to the owner or mortgagee Mr Hind, George Beer received £628 and £20 went to James French the licensee. He moved the following year to the “Two Brewers” in Limekiln Street.

Clarendon Hotel.
47 Snargate Street.
On the corner with Snargate Street and Northampton Street and well established by 1879. Reports of the last century usually refer to it as an inn. The singing and dancing licence was granted in 1929 and a lease dated February 1923 and for 21 years, was made between the Harbour Board and Naldor and Collyer’s Brewery. Another lease in 1942 was held by Ind Coope and Allsopp. This licence was suspended for the duration of the war in September 1940 and it never reopened to my knowledge. If it did, it would have been closed again by the beginning of August 1950. Demolition took place in September that year and was complete by November. The last was Archibald Hopper.

Coach and Horses.
1 Tower Hamlets Street.
An outlet of Ash and Company and fully licensed the site was occupied in 1848 by another pub called the “Paul Pry”. The sign changed whilst the Gann family were in residence, probably between 1865 and 1867. An open and shut existence prevailed here in the last century and it closed for the last time in 1913. Ash and Company received compensation and William Kennett the tenant £10. Another with this sign traded from Clarence Place and that later became the “Cinque Ports Arms” (Henry Jell 1791. and Atkins 1805).

Cock Inn.
Strond Street.
Thomas Jaxon kept a “Cock Victualling House” in Biggin Street in 1545. The Strond Street pub was built on reclaimed land and another inn possibly the same was established in the pier district during the reign of James 1st. A William and Alice Wellard owned the “Cock Brewhouse” and the “Cock Inn” which, in 1650 stood in Strond Street where later Trinity church was erected. Both establishments seem to have prospered and the pub issued its own copper tokens. They were taken down in 1835 when the site sold for £1,000 and a church took the place. That was not in use during world war two and it made way for dockside improvements in 1949.

Comet.
26 Priory Road (Priory Place)
There is evidence of a house called “Comet Star” and with nothing to suggest otherwise, I am content to presume this is it. A passage from the rear led to the “British Queen” which demonstrates its location. As an ale or beer house it had sold for £150 in 1798 and in 1884, Baxter and Company, brewers paid £300 for it.
It was still a beer house when kept by William Castle in 1907 and that year the Bench considered it surplus to requirements. The Compensation Authority thought likewise the following year and the premises were then used in quick succession by a butcher, a greengrocer, and finally as tearooms.

Cooper’s Arms
Paradise Street.
A farthing token had its place in the currency of the town in 1662. The token was that of William Tillet, “The Cooper’s Arms” and bore his initials W. M. T. That introduces this later one that was a beer house either opening or re-opening in 1856. The licence was granted in November that year but I only saw mention of it once more, when complaints were made the following year because no inn sign was displayed. A Mr Prince served under this sign in Dover in 1805 and S. Brown in 1791. Perhaps the same. In 1826 and 1832 the address was Strond Street.

Corn Sheaf Victualling House.
Chapel Street. (Upwall)
William Lorne in 1545.

Cricketer.
Crabble.
Crabble Athletic Ground was laid out in 1896 and opened on Whit Monday 1897. The same year Leney applied for a licence for a house that his company proposed to reconstruct and enlarge at a provisional cost of £1,200. It would be called appropriately “The Cricketers Arms” and if necessary the brewer agreed to surrender the “London Packet”. On that basis George Holly was allowed to draw in August 1987. Utilised as a hotel for some part of its life but today serving Fremlin and Whitbread with a shorter title.

Crispin.
Adrian Street.
Another of the beer houses, Abel Moon setting them up in 1842 and his wife Susannah following in the fifties. John Cornell or Cordwell kept a beer house in this street and this may well have been it. If so we can say the pints were still being pulled in 1869 but beyond that I couldn’t say.

Criterion.
8 Last Lane (Bourman’s Lane)
An outlet of George Beer and Rigden which finally settled for its title after previously being the “American Stores”, “Who’d a Thought It” and “Oxford Music Hall”. Also present in the lane up to 1776 and possibly the same, “The Lass”. The sign Criterion” appeared between 1880 and 1882. A fire starting in the cellar on 20th January 1890 did not destroy the house completely but the contents of the bar parlour were written off and two men had to be rescued from the upper rooms. Frank Newstead faced bankruptcy as a result. A redundancy charge was evaded in 1933 and it survived then to 25th October 1968 when it closed and was ready for demolition. Tom Byrne moved to keep the “Invicta” demolition was authorised together with the “Prince Louis” nearby by the Ministry of Transport in June 1970. The house vanished in November.

Cross Keys.
Custom House Quay
Present in 1791-1859 but otherwise I can say little, I did come across it once spelt Quays.

Crown Victualling House.
Biggin Street
Another revealed by the census of 1545. Johanna Vaughan.

Crown.
29 London Road.
A beerhouse of Leney, originating previous to 1869. An interesting change was contemplated by the Phoenix Brewery in 1914. Their desire being to close this and transfer the licence to a property in Pretoria Terrace that stood at its juncture with Whitfield Avenue. The Bench do not seem to have been sufficiently impressed by the evidence to merit its justification and would not co-operate. The “Crown” itself finally bowed to the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910, closing on December 30th 1916. Compensation at £663 was agreed in November that year but I have no details how it was divided. The tenant was George Parks Wood, if not then, later the secretary to Alfred Leney and Company.

Crown.
1 Military Road.
On the corner with the old York Street an outlet of George Beer and Rigden that passed to Fremlin and already well established in 1838. Reinstatement of war damage, provisionally expected to cost £341was refused in August 1946 the site being needed for redevelopment. A compulsory purchase order was made some years later. Concerning its acquisition a compensation figure of £5, 700 was mentioned in March 1962. Perhaps it was accepted. The pub did close on 16th April 1962. On 6th October 1967 the area was described as the site of the former and recently demolished “Crown” and in June 1972 the entrance from Worthington Street to Military Road was closed for good to all traffic. An interesting analogy there perhaps because the erection of the pub had ousted a pair of gates which led to the pastures above. The licence was transferred in 1962 from Walter Nadin, the last licensee, to Thomas Rogers on behalf of Fremlin. Later it passed to Fremlin manager John Coomber.

Crown.
St. James Street.
Standing on the corner with a lane leading to Townwall Street and well established by 1874. Its early history is a mystery. We know that John Head kept a “Crown” in 1791 but we have no address. Another traded from Hawkesbury Street in 1826.
By 1870 this had gained a reputation for doing the wrong thing. The magistrate had no hesitation in closing it for two years. Arthur Barton attempted to re-open in 1871 but was not permitted and it is not likely that any other applications pursued the matter.
Crown and Anchor Tavern.
Round Tower Lane.
Samuel Alger the proprietor in 1845. There is always the possibility of this being an extension of annexe to another house. It did happen at that time but more likely it do Ann Whitehouse in 1805 and John Friend in 1826 keep the pub.

Crown and Anchor Booth.
Strond Street.
I can be more precise with this one and confirm it as an addition to the “Packet Boat Inn” kept by Newing in the 1850’s.

Crown and Quay.
Chapel Street (Upwall)
A victualling house of 1545 and I hold doubts concerning the spelling.

Crown and Sceptre.
25 Elms Vale Road.
In 1900 Thompson and Son, brewers of Walmer applied for a licence in respect of a house they proposed building in Elms Road. The provisional cost was £1,600. As an inducement, they offered to surrender the “Duke of Connaught”. That first request was refused but the following year a second one found favour. The building was completed in 1902 and Stephen Belsey served during the initial years. A Charrington outlet that passed to Shepherd Neame in February 1991.

Crusader.
29 Council House Street.
Much of the information I gathered concerning the “Providence Hotel and “Tap” I had to discard because it might have referred to the house in Trevanion Street. I became so confused by my notes that I formed the opinion that a single edifice had been cut down the middle to form numbers 29 and 31. I have read that the “Crusader” was the former “Providence Hotel” but my notes show both establishments functioning at the same time up to 1878 so that discounts that. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the “Crusader” was sometimes addressed Blenheim Square but likewise that proves little. It had also traded as early as 1792, and certainly in 1826, as “The Prince of Wales”. When auctioned in May 1859, it held a 61-year lease that had commenced in April 1834. £400 was paid that time and at the next sale in 1881 it passed to the Kingsford brothers for £610. A description at that time showed four bedrooms and four attics. My notes also suggest that the licence was dropped in 1880 but it must have been a temporary thing only. I suspect the Justices could make little sense of this one either. In 1895 when the licence of the “Trinity Pilot” was presented for renewal, they only complied on condition that the “Crusader” closed once and for all time.

Crypt Tavern.
10 Bench Street.
Formerly the “George”, “The Vine” and the “Shakespeare Hotel” it became the “Crypt Tavern” after a long interesting history in 1964. The new owners Raberni Inns who reopened after extensive alterations plus the creation of new bars.
Fire visited the premises several times during 1968 and 1969. Not one outbreak being disastrous in itself but the cumulative results no doubt leaving scars. Ownership passed to Rabb Inns in December 1971 and some years later, early one Sunday morning the 27th March 1977, a passer by reported fire. The conflagration proved serious that time and although many of the residents escaped or were rescued,
Seven fatalities including one of the firemen. “The Crypt Tavern and Restaurant” with apartments over were described subsequently as a mass of rooms and passages which could be compared to a rabbit warren. The owners were refused permission to reinstate the damage in April 1981 but were authorised instead to demolish the remains in November 1982. It was April 1985 before that happened however and the site is still vacant in March 1990.

Crystal Palace.

W. Philpot Spice kept one of this name in 1856. Perhaps appropriate at the time. The palace itself had opened in 1854. I have no address so can make little comment.

Cumberland Hotel.

Union Street. (Snargate Street over the Water)
The original “Duke of Cumberland” was built at the seaward end on Union Street. It stood there in the eighteenth century but disappeared about 1844 when the tidal harbour was enlarged. The house we are now discussing, and this may be a abbreviated version of the title was said to be on the corner of Union Street but was sometimes addressed “Esplanade” A new licence issued to Thomas Winterbourne, (or Winterbotham) in 1847 confirms but my searches never found it after that year.

Deal Cutter.

10 Beach Street & 18 Seven Star Street.

An outlet of George Beer, fully licensed and at different times having its neighbour, the “Seven Star Inn”, “The Admiral” and the “Miner’s Arms”. Norris filled the jars in 1861 and we also had a “Folkestone Cutter” so having associations with the revenue service maybe. An amusing chapter in its history occurred in the last century when the licensee Mr Foreman departed this earthly coil in 1880. Nobody seems to have considered the brewer or the justices important enough to be acquainted with the fact and the licence continued to be issued in his name up to 1884 the matter then coming to light. Without fuss, it was then transferred to his widow who had kept the pumps working meanwhile without complaint and indeed, by that time the error was discovered she had selected another lover and remarried shortly afterwards.
I note that a closing order was made in 1912. That must have referred to the property as such. The pub had already been closed from 31st December 1909 by the Compensation Authority. It was stated then that it had changed hands seven times in twenty-five years. No compensation figures came to light and in February 1909 it was one of twenty-nine licensed premises in the pier district.

Denmark Arms.
London Road.
I have never heard the older generation mention this one, which stood where the “Eagle” stands today from approximately 1868 to 1893. Certainly the Queen of Denmark arrived at Dover during the year 1869 and landed here again, with her husband in 1875. That might suggest a reason for the title but I think there may be more to the story because I note that the licence of the “Eagle” was suspended in 1868. Alfred Buckland was the first licensee and Bayden Simmonds the last. By 1893 definitely the “Eagle” once more.

Derby Arms.
Council House Street.
William Bramley 1858.

Devonshire Arms.
6 High Street.
This could be described as a beer house by fate and not by design. As far back as 1874 Fred Butcher had made an application for a spirit licence, only to be rejected. At the time it was tied to Wright’s brewery, later passing to Phillips and Sons, West Malling and Dover. Originating before 1869, difficulties seem to have accompanied the renewal in 1868, if not then, George Quint certainly has it re-established by 1871.
Redundancy was suggested in 1906. The church opposite although of a later date backed the forces seeking a closure. The storm was weathered that year however. In 1907, plans for rebuilding the house were presented by the brewer but they seem to have been quietly shelved by the authorities and the renewal was opposed again in 1908. The closure came on 28th December that year. A description at the time informed us that there were two bars at the front, one in fact being a passage itself that was used as a private bar. Difficult to visualise that one, and the other bar was in the back parlour which I think sounds much more likely. Compensation of £354 was paid to Phillips and Company of the Abbey Brewery West Malling and Richard Charles the tenant got £96.

Dewdrop.
26-27 Tower Hamlets Street.
The street itself materialised about 1866 and number 27 was previously known as the “British Tar” in 1871. The name changed by 1878. Plans for rebuilding were presented by the brewer, Phillips and Company, in 1902. In 1908 it was described as being recently rebuilt. This Fremlin outlet was seriously damaged by a storm in October 1987 part of the frontage collapsing into the road. Satisfactorily repaired however and still active today.

Diamond.
Heathfield Avenue.
An obliging Bench apparently faced E. Dawes and Sons when they asked for a licence in 1896. It was a house they intended building here. As a sweetener they offered to surrender the “Grand Shaft Inn” and under those circumstances any opposition must have melted. At that time Dawes and Sons ran the Diamond Brewery at Maxton where their ale was supplied to the public at one shilling per gallon. The pub obviously perpetuates the name. W. Baker the first licensee and a Whitbread – Fremlin house serving us today.

Dog and Gun.
Laureston Place.
Kept by John Stone from 1849-52 but was completely destroyed by fire in the month of June that year. The proprietor lived next door, being the owner of both properties. Two floors of his dwelling were also written off, the contents being destroyed.

Dolphin.
Dolphin Lane.
Thomas Gilman kept the first house as long ago as 1791. Joint licensees Minnie Alford and Mary Clements saw that replaced with the new, a few yards distant from the old site in 1877. The licence was transferred the same year and the ladies moved to the, more commodious premises. A year later it came close to being destroyed when a fire extending from Castle Street to Dolphin Lane threatened. The carriage works of Mr. Hill were destroyed and the stables of Leney, three storeys high, completely gutted. The horses fortunately were led to safety. A library was destroyed some six thousand books many dealing with Kent local history were lost. A chemist and a butcher had their premises damaged and the rebuilt “Dolphin” owed its salvation to its soundly constructed party wall. The town’s was supply was said to be inefficient at the time and your mind like mine probably wanders to the river nearby.
Herbert Barratt held this licence in 1940 when the Chief Constable on the grounds of necessity opposed the renewal. It proved surplus to requirement as a result on June 7th 1940. Compensation was agreed on 19th July. If the details were ever published they escape me. Another business with this sign had once traded from the Market Square and that later became the “Walmer Castle”.

Donegal Arms.
43 Limekiln Street.
The older generation knew this one as the “Granville Arms” Sladden hosted in 1847 and the title changed around 1867 when the Hambrook family were in residence. It is wrong to say ‘Arms’. In those early days it was always referred to as “Granville Inn”.

Dover Castle Hotel
6 Clarence Place.
The original stood at the seaward end of Union Street, (Buildings over the wall) in 1805, Mr Ford. It was removed in 1844 when the tidal harbour was enlarged. There is evidence of the furniture and fittings being auctioned in November 1839. It was sometimes described as being near North pier head. The name associated with it from 1830 to 1839 was Tom Divers. His wife Elizabeth continued, latterly here and then to its successor in Clarence Place up to 1875.
It was sold that year to Charles Poland for £6,250, which suggests it was no mean structure. Even so, he proceeded to enlarge it by incorporating two cottages at a cost of £1,500. Perhaps business fell away. John Balcombe of London acquired the hotel in 1906 but by 1910 he seems to regret the venture and he departed in despair.
There is no evidence of the property being occupied again before 1924, when it was converted into flats. They were struck by enemy gunfire on 28th August 1940 and were converted into flats. They were struck by enemy gunfire on 28th August 1940 and if not completely destroyed then they would certainly have been taken down by 1950.

Dover Castle Tap.
Middle Row.
Another example of the trouble and confusion caused by these ‘taps’ occurred in 1889 when the manager of the “Dover Castle Hotel” was severely reprimanded by the Bench for misconduct at the “Tap”. In defence he submitted that it was under separate management to the hotel and was even housed in a separate building. Nevertheless, the hotel used four rooms over the “Tap”. Barker, of Loose near Maidstone was the brewer at the time. The property became his for the sum of £610 in 1881. That trouble of 1889 could have meant curtains. The licence was not renewed that year and it was 1922 before I saw it mentioned again. It was described at a Council Meeting that year as a dilapidated old building.

Dover Moat Hotel.
Townwall Street.
This was the former “Holiday Inn”, the name changing when new owners moved in during February 1985. I count this a free house.

Dover Stage Hotel.
Camden Crescent & Townwall Street
Having entrances from both roads, this was erected in 1956-7. The site had been acquired post war by Watney, Combe and Reid, brewers for £4,250. The licence of the then demolished “Burlington Hotel” was bought from Dover Corporation for £750 in 1955. It was a condition that the brewer would surrender the “Trocadero Bars” and that licence was therefore transferred here on 23rd May 1957 when the business commenced. One of the bars perpetuated the name ‘Trocadero’. Grand Metropole became the owners in 1971, Haven Inns in 1972 and Queens Moat in 1982. The same year ownership passed to Ian Whittaker. The small size of the hotel was the cause of its demise in 1988. In June that year permission was sought to demolish and erect flats in its place. Assent came quickly in July and removal commenced in October. As 1990 opens only private cars utilise the site.

Dover Tavern.
Bench Street.
Built on the former site of the “Guildhall Vaults”, a plaque in the wall commemorates that fact with the dates 1690-1943. An outlet of Ind Coope and Allsopp, (now Ind Coope), it opened on 4th July 1957. The cost was said to be £21,000 and it was described initially as a mariner’s pub with a ships mast outside. That proved to be a nuisance and was later removed. Closed for alterations and modifications early in 1988 but reopened on 4th March with the same name but a different sign. That depicted a table of fare, over looked by Dover Castle. The brewer Friary Meux and the cost, said to be £71,000.

Druids Head.
35 Townwall Street.
Formerly the “Angel” and the “Eight Bells” Williams served here in 1826. Following his demise in 1855. His daughter Margaret continued for at least another twenty-three years. John Folwell was the patron when it changed once more to the “Granville Hotel” in 1883.

Dublin Man of War.
110 Lower Road River.
The first house with the sign stood not far from the present and Walker sold it for £1,250 in 1859. John Knott served there in 1838. The present house was reported as fairly new in 1907 and I was impressed by the advertisement I saw dated 1914. It stated that the house had tea gardens set amongst the walnut and cherry trees and it invited people to get the children off the road so they would not get knocked down by the traffic. The public were also invited to indulge in the more potent liquors, which it claimed were the natural beverages of the open-air loving gentleman. The tenants and managers can all be counted on the fingers. This old outlet of Flint passed to Fremlin and Alan Ellis converted several bars to open plan in 1987.

Duchess of Kent.
18 Market Square.
Butchers Lane once stood nearby and in 1690 this sign was the “Butchers Arms”.
It still traded as such in 1822 but had deteriorated much that it was subsequently re-fronted. It was named “Duchess of Kent” in 1835. The sign depicted her wearing a turban so obviously a story there. She honoured the town with a visit that year certainly, but the “Ship Hotel” attended to her needs. A “Duchess of Kent” eating-house existed also in the town in 1838 but I do not know if the two were related. It was the custom here to open at three a.m. and that privilege was renewed in 1874 and 1900. At the end of the nineteenth century coaches were leaving the inn for St. Margaret’s Bay at four thirty p.m. every day except Sunday. It was offered to the highest bidder by Mrs. Harding in 1890 but was withdrawn at £1,100. An unusual distinction was held by the business in 1914. That year all licensed premises and clubs were prohibited from selling alcoholic drinks after nine p.m. The exceptions were the “Duchess of Kent” and the “Walmer Castle” which belonged to Fremlin. The licence of the “Duchess” was surrendered to make that possible and by agreement the two brewers held equal shares in the new pub. That was named “Elephant and Hind” in defence to both trademarks and it opened in 1964.

Duke of Cambridge.
72 Snargate Street.
This faced the Grand Shaft that led to the barracks above and was an outlet of Kingsford, which by 1895 had passed to George Beer. It must be said though that in 1864, Weston appears to own it. At the Sessions of 1895 the licence renewal was refused because a resident in the street made an objection. When that was later ruled out of order and he was asked for costs he appealed to the House of Lords and they decided on 26th July 1897 that any inhabitant who objects before the annual licensing meeting to the renewal of a pub’s licence would not be liable to pay the costs of the case. Mrs. Weston was the proprietor at that time, when her defence presented it as a well-established and respectable house. Whatever it was, history was made that year.
The licensee’s life was no bed of roses as William Beer found when he kept this pub from 1898 to 1901. He always retained his job as a miner because he maintained that without other employment a living was not possible. When you consider that of seven consecutive houses facing the Grand Shaft Barracks, five were licensed, and within thirty yards on the other side of the street were “York House” and the “Ordnance” who could disagree. If anyone should he could always draw attention to the dozen pubs all within two hundred yards that existed on Commercial Quay.
In the event the pub did well to survive until 1912. That year however the licence was withheld and it was referred to the Compensation Authority. I have no figures for that particular year but there is little doubt that was the end. Which bring to mind an earlier date that could have spelt curtains. That was January 1908 when a passer by noted smoke and raised the alarm. Miss Kennett the hostess made a habit of sleeping at the “George Hotel” so was not on the premises. The building was saved but the bar parlour was destroyed.

Duke of Connaught.
27 Oxenden Street.
Previously the “Pimlico Tavern” the name changed in or about 1874. The lease between Lane and the Harbour Board was for eighty-one years and six months commencing April 1813. Flint purchased the property in 1881 for £500. It possessed four bedrooms. The Duke and Duchess did visit the town in 1883 to open the new town hall but the title refers specifically to the Duke and was perhaps because he spent here as a member of the garrison, residing then in Waterloo Crescent. This licence changed hands frequently and it was surrendered finally in 1901 so that the “Crown and Sceptre” in Elma Vale Road could open. The Town Council of the day sold the licence back to the brewer for £1,000.

Duke of Cornwall.
Oxenden Street.
Certainly present in 1845 as shown by police reports. When Taylor was permitted to draw in 1853 the address read Old Post Office Lane. The authorities withheld the licence for misconduct in 1859. Unsuccessful attempts to reopen the following year must have spelt curtains.

Duke’s Head
James Beer 1792. Regret no address.

Duke of Wellington.
201 London Road.
The number was 200 up to 1914 and whatever happened then, there was still confusion up to 1939. From April that year numbers one to seven Cranbrook Villas became 202-207a London Road. The licence issued in 1869 I would expect to mean the opening. It passed to the East Kent Brewery in October 1890. I had hoped to find another licensed property between here and Buckland Bridge but my searches produced nothing. An outlet of Mrs Harding in the past, lack of trade brought about the closure here shortly after or during 1971.

Duke of York.
71a Snargate Street.
An outlet of Thompson. Fully licensed and enjoying the dubious privilege of opening at five a.m. from 1876. Considerable damage was caused, although the property was saved, when an ironmongers shop next door was destroyed by fire on 6th March 1884.
Durtnall had obliged customers here as early as 1832. In 1900 the brewer wished to transfer the licence to a new pub he proposed building at Clarendon at a cost of £1,600. The Bench would not entertain that and six years later it came to the notice of the Compensation Authority. They finalised the matter in October 1906 by closing the pub and paying the brewer £663 his loss and the tenant John Mills received £32.

Eagle Hotel

324 London Road and 2 Tower Hamlets Road.
On a commanding corner position, the original was built on the former site of the “Black Horse” shortly after 1839. It possessed a tea garden but that attraction was discontinued when it was rebuilt in 1863. Brockman served 1843 and might well have been the first to do so. The new house had teething troubles from the start and by 1868 the licence was suspended. It next traded as “The Denmark Arms” but the new name did little to change its fortunes. The licensees changed every year up to 1877 and by 1893 the sign was once more the “The Eagle”. It was an outlet for many years of John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery but changed in 1946 to Courage (Elder), and perhaps later Foster.

East Cliff Hotel.
28 East Cliff.
Built in 1828 and used by the Admiralty in times of war, it was transformed into a hotel by Mrs Kidd about 1948. Although operating as such in the early fifties, the table licence was not granted before 1959 and the restaurant and residential licence followed in 1963. New ownership in 1961 may have meant the status of the hotel changed. It was often referred to as “The Channel Swimmers Rest”. Christies of Canterbury offered the house for sale in 1983. Mrs Blanchard had utilised it as a sixteen-bed hotel from 1970. After 1980 a public bar was incorporated but 1986 saw that licence refused for irregularities and although it was restored shortly afterwards it was refused again in 1987. It was stated then that the renewal would only be considered if and when the public bar became independent and separate entity to the hotel.

East Kent Railway Tavern.
Commercial Quay.
The excitement is easy to visualize when the trains first served the town. The pubs certainly co-operated by naming pubs to suit the occasion. Finnis ran this in 1861 and Watson from Canterbury officiated in 1872. That was the last year I saw mention of it.
Effingham Arms.
32 Townwall Street.
On the corner with Wall Passage and kept by Mrs Walls in 1854. Misdemeanours brought its closure in 1862. Taylor left the “Antwerp Tap” to reopen the following year and must have succeeded. The new sign, from or by 1867 was “The Sussex Arms”.
Eight Bells.
New Street. (Turne-again Lane)
An early beer house, probably opening in the 1840’s. It stood on the same side of the street as the “Metropole” trade entrance. An outlet of Phillips it was used for many years, unofficially up to 1913, as a common lodging house. Although aware of its existence the police turned a blind eye because they admitted in 1911 that although very old, it was always clean and well kept. Walter Drury was a drayman for the Diamond Brewery for fourteen years before starting here in 1908. He made his arrangements with the gods in 1915shortly after the closure. That was in 1911 when it was declared surplus to requirements. The brewer was compensated with £467 and Drury with £70. It was fully licensed and a public and private bar was available. It continued “Ye Olde Eight Bells Lodging House” well into the thirties. Another with this sign had previously traded from Townwall Street, later becoming “The Granville Hotel”. Jones in 1791 and Wyndham in 1805 kept others. I have no addresses for them.

Elephant and Castle.
High Street.
Already active when Garrick handed over to Moses Browning in 1850. It stood between Bridge Street and Peter Street, on that side of the thoroughfare. 1914 is the last year I have knowledge of it.

Elephant and Hind.
18 -19 Market Square.
It was formerly the “Walmer Castle” and the “Duchess of Kent”. Permission was given in 1962 for the two to merge. Fremlin and Mackeson shared the proceeds form the new venture and the licence of “The Duchess” was surrendered. The antiquity of the buildings meant the practical rebuilding of the whole and following that it reopened as “The Elephant and Hind” in October 1964.

Empire Palace of Varieties.
Market Square.
See “Phoenix Tavern”

Endeavour
12a Bulwark Street.
It is thought to have been first licensed some forty years ago after its construction. It was always referred to as “Paine’s Endeavour” and certainly some person of that name served in 1847. It would have been on your left moving from Limekiln Street and like the “Exeter” the brewer was anxious to have his claim settled in 1921. Negotiations for its sale had commenced in but hostilities had delayed any decision. The doors closed finally in October 1921 although Mrs Stanley continued in residence until that side of the street disappeared in 1927. For the property Dover Corporation paid £124. 19s. in 1922.

Engineer.

121 Folkestone Road. (1-2 Priory Terrace)
On the corner of Malvern Road the number was once sixty. That part of the road formed about 1870 and during the present century various terraces have been incorporated into the road. The bar portion, like the “Imperial Crown” has the appearance of a single storey extension. A Leney outlet that passed to Whitbread.

Evening Star.
Biggin Street.
Chidwick in 1838 and James Timan in 1842 when the authorities refused to renew the licence any more.

Excavator’s Arms.
Dieu Stone Lane or Church Place.
There is nothing like an apt title when the local railway lines were being laid and the fortifications at the Western Heights were taking shape, this pub come lodging house catered for many of the artisans. Later it became Flashman’s Workshop and furniture depository until it was damaged by enemy shellfire on October 3rd 1941. It was in September 1946, when the premises were taken down as a result, that the old sign came to light. It was said to have weathered the years well.

Exchange.
Charlton.
The transfer of this licence was refused in 1851.

Exeter Arms.
77 Limekiln Street.
The original was removed in 1859 by requirements of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. The address was then Strond Street, with John Dunn the host. He promptly packed his bag and moved along the street to number 83 and “Exeter Arms” number two. The origin of this first house is not known, but a new licence was granted to Jane Ball in 1845. The third house in another street may suggest entrances from two thoroughfares. Dover Corporation had sought to buy this pub in 1913 but it was 1924 before those negotiations came to fruition. £400 was then paid for the property and the tenant was offered £200 provided he vacated the place in two weeks. Perhaps understandably some members of the Council questioned the authority for that payment after all he had occupied the premises knowing full well that there life was limited. The point was taken and the compensation to William Simmonds was decreased to £150. He meanwhile had left on the original understanding. His reaction is easy to contemplate. Apparently the air was blue at the time. The argument went on for weeks, months, probably years. I never came to the end of it. It only remains to say in summing up that it was demolished in 1924, that it was an outlet of George Beer and that five a.m. opening was permitted there from 1897 but probably ended in 1906.

Falcon Hotel.
1 London Road.
The first licensee on parade at the opening was Tucker in 1864. It occupied the corner with Bridge Street following the removal of the tollgate. At the other extreme, Nadin, 1964-9 saw the property sold to the town for £11,000. Bridge Street was widened at this point early in 1970 and the necessary removal of the hotel took place to make that possible.

Fectors Arms.
Charlton.
I can only say that it was there in 1850. There is little doubt that it belonged to Fector the Dover banker. He held property in this area and Laureston Place. His wife Annie came from Laureston in Scotland and he is said to have named the area after her. She was thought to be the Annie Laurie in the popular song of the day but research by Dover resident John Morecroft in 1981 concluded that the honour belonged to another, born some two hundred years earlier.

Ferry Boat.
Charlton.
Coleman in 1842.

First and Last.
55 East Cliff.
And old house with a new title. The change happened in 1970 when the “Prince Alfred” sign displayed since 1866 was taken down. A past outlet of Gardner which joined the Whitbread group but which was then sold as a private residence in 1976.

Fishing Boat.
Fishmonger’s Lane.
An apt title that. Sometimes described as an inn as early as 1848 but by 1891 the sign was “Prince of Wales”
Five Alls.
13 Market Street.
The pub closed on 14th July 1968. The town had made a compulsory purchase but the ground then lay idle for twenty-two years before redevelopment occurred. I never found any buying price or compensation figure. It was rumoured to be over tow hundred years old and to have formed part of a smuggling chain in the past. A secret room was indicated and underground tunnels were purported to run to the “New Inn” and the “Cause is Altered” both in the vicinity. Many inns have this title but often-different characters are used. The five faces portrayed here were those of a lawyer, priest, farmer, soldier and the devil, with the captions, “I plead for all”, “I pray for all”, “I work for all”, “I fight for all” and “I claim all”. George Hudson served you in 1849 and at the close by Mr Pratt. The street was closed to traffic from 1971 and to pedestrians from 198.

Fleece
Snargate Street.
I must warn that I have confusing notes. 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 practise 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 safely say

Fleur de Lis.
2 Council House Street.
See also “Flying Horse Tavern”. Boyce kept this in 1805 and Holmes in 1845 perhaps a closure between then and 1851 when Crittenden started. At an auction in 1859, when the premises were in a 61 year lease, which had commenced in April1834 Thomas Walker’s Dolphin Lane Brewery was also looking for a bidder. It was offered as a whole and included the malt house, coach house, stabling, yards and garden together with the counting house and store. Returning to the “Fleur de Lis”, and it is not know if any sale resulted, then a fire occurred at the pub on 26th June 1859. My notes do not elaborate but the establishment did continue to serve until 1940. That year the Chief Constable on the grounds of necessity opposed its continuation. His views were accepted and on 7th June its epitaph was written. Compensation was agreed on 19th July but I have no figures.

Flying Horse Tavern.
King Street.
The foundations of a tavern that had borne this title were unearthed at King Street during a road widening in the nineteenth century. When first built by Thomas Dawkes about 1558 it had been called “Fleur de Lis”. Richard Dawkes is thought to have kept an inn hereabouts also, in the mid seventeenth century. That would have carried the “Flying Horse” sign. It still traded in 1805 (Benskin).
By 1864, it was described as a commercial inn and tavern and in 1884 was named “The Flying Horseman”. It was later described as the “Flying Horse Hotel” with stabling and lockup coach houses. Those coaches ran to here from Canterbury every Friday, returning the same day. The government in 1891 subsequently being removed to make room for a new general post office purchased it. That opened on 2nd October but it has been used for many varied activities since 1914 when the post office operated from a central site in Priory Street. I would have expected to find some evidence of rebuilding here prior to 1893 but the gods are not always kind. At the time of demolition he “Flying Horse Hotel” was said to be several centuries old.

Folkestone Arms.
Biggin Street.
It is possible that this later became the “Three Tuns” and “Lord Raglan”. As Bateman ran the establishment in 1847 there is some doubt.

Folkestone Cutter.
18 Council House Street and Great Street.
Kept by Penn in 1805, it was sold by Satchell in 1881. Its lease from the Harbour Board of 61 years had commenced in April 1834. Robert Stanton proved the highest bidder at £340. That same year, the Superintendent of Police had opposed the renewal. He stated that seventy houses had recently been pulled down in the vicinity and obviously that could not stand contradiction. The public had to drink elsewhere from 1881.

Forester’s Arms.
Worthington Street (Worthington Lane).
John Newing was associated with this beer house in 1867. It was situated between Biggin Street and Queen’s Gardens on that side of the street. It passed from Satchell to Barker with eight other licensed premises of the town, together with “The Spotted Cow” in 1881. It disappeared with the street widening of 1895.

Fountain.
King Street.
This alehouse on the corner of the square provided Flint’s sale. The name had no significance. A drinking fountain in the Square appeared later but did not last long. I pause here while I think where I might find such a useful commodity today. This outlet traded when King Street was only fifteen feet wide but it ended when this side of the street was taken down in 1826. It was probably number one, but following the widening the numbers start from the other end. See “Fountain Hotel”.

Fountain Hotel.
7 King Street.
Following the widening of the street and the rebuilding about 1826, this took the corner position once more. The ownership meanwhile had passed from Flint to Russell’s Gravesend Brewery. An inn from about 1870 and opening at 3.30 in 1884. Its neighbour, the London, County and Westminster Bank, seemed to attract the money more than the inn and when they wished to enlarge the bank in 1913 by absorbing the corner site, the brewer accepted their offer. Apparently trade had declined since 2,000 soldiers of the York and Lancaster Regiment had left.

Fountain
238 London Road.
On the corner with Erith Place, it was built on the former site of a farmhouse and that in its turn had stood on part of the grounds of William Kingsford’s brewery. I never discovered the origin but it is known that Edmund Ashdown made a successful application for a spirit licence in 1863. It was known as the “Prince of Wales” and with another house of like name in the immediate vicinity some confusion existed. The sign therefore changed to “The Fountain” in 1873. We already had the “Fountain” at the Market Place and an “Old Fountain” at Stembrook so the logic escapes me. It survived just the same and served Gardner for many years before passing to Whitbread. A short close in the 1980’s but reopened by Stephen Benn in July 1986. Trading ceased again in March 1990 and it was on offer for £70,000. It reopened on 18th May 1991 as a free house re-titled “The Sportsman”. Michael Phillips.
Four Porters.
Guilford Terrace.
Its presence in 1845 is confirmed by an inquest held there. That found that Joseph Richards, a gas worker, was killed by falling chalk whilst digging a cave in the cliff. An auction of May 1859 confirms its presence again and shows that it realised £900 freehold. In June the following year it became the “Guilford Inn”. In 1826 the address read Townwall Street, (Sarah Hopper), and in 1832 it read Liverpool Terrace.

Fox
52 St. James Street.
Two tenements were converted to provide this one, which stood on the corner with Fox Passage. Certainly present in 1803 and historians generally agreeing that the passage was named after the pub. Be that as it may, the reader is advised that it had previously traded as “The Turkey Cock”. Possibly my notes are disappointing. Reynolds certainly present in 1805. As an established freehold pub it invited offers in 1859. The result is not known. It was closed following war damage in world was two and a compulsory purchase order was made by the town in January 1954 and confirmed in May 1955 for the site and war damaged building. A converted value payment was made in 1957 for £2,400. The property was demolished by August the same year.

French Arms.
A farthing token circulated in the town at one time with the inscription DMN at the “French Armes”.

Fresh Endeavour.
Council House Street.
Reportedly kept by Jesse Austen in 1839.

Friend in Need.
Peter Street (St. Peters Street)
Its origin is thought to be 1838 eight years after the street began to take shape. There is evidence though of another with like name in the pier district as late as 1841. (Louis Pique or commonly French Louise). In 1912 improvements were made in Peter Street or maybe the pub itself. Alterations to two old cottages that year converted them into a pub after which there was no need to approach the house by steps. This was closed by Whitbread in January 1988 and taken down in August the same year. The wording displayed on the frontage showed that it had not always been a part of the tied trade. Daniel Gill traded as a free house in 1864. The last licensee, John Manley.

Game Cock.
William Newing in 1844.

Garrick’s Head Inn.
4 Market Square.
Jabez Vinall served in 1853 when only ale or beer was sold. It is not known if he was the first. The premises had been a tailor’s shop up to 1830. The spirit licence was granted in 1863 and four a.m. opening was allowed from 1872 but weekdays only. It became three thirty in 1874. That concession was still held after 1900. I did see a “Garrick’s Arms” reported in 1878 and have presumed that be the same. I could find no licensee after Charles Simonds in 1895. Efforts were made in 1913 to transfer a licence from one of the closed pubs in Beach Street to this address but it was not allowed. I have to suspect my own notes there because other factors suggest that demolition would have taken place in 1906 in preparation for the erection of Lloyds bank. An outlet of Thompson that was first licensed about 1830.

Gate.
79 Crabble Hill (Buckland Street)
On the corner with Pioneer Road and retailing in 1868. The name was derived from the tollgate that stood close by to late 1871, the sign amply demonstrates the fact. It had been a private residence before entering the trade. I mention a licence refusal in 1869 because Quested was granted one in 1870. That was for a beer house on Crabble Hill. It suggests he may have re-opened here but it is possible that a “Liberty” retailed lower down the road. This number will vary over the years. A road widening was affected in lower down 1938 when some properties disappeared but the project was not finalised until post war. An outlet of Shepherd Neame that is still part of us.

General Blucher.
Commercial Quay.
1815 and the battles in the low countries spring to mind of course but it could only trace to William Marsh in 1854-7.

George and Dragon.
Hawkesbury Street.
W. Ames in 1847.

George Hotel.
92 Snargate Street.
To keep the records straight I have to say first that my searches produced the “George Inn” of 86 Snargate Street and the “George Hotel” of the same street, licensees shed no light on the matter either. I expect they are one and the same establishment but I point that out before giving the facts I know. The only brewer revealed was George Beer. A description of the “George Inn” which was said to date from 1720 identified it with a corner site on the south side of Snargate Street and stated that it narrowly missed compulsory purchase in 1835 when there were intentions to widen the approach to the victualling yard. Lack of funds prevented that. A description of the “George Hotel” about 1900 stated that it stood opposite the Packet Yard with entrances from Strond Street and Snargate Street. It was permitted to open at five a.m. from 1876.
Some coinage tokens which circulated in the past where thought to be related with the “George”. They bore the inscription IEC 1652 and I am inclined to associate them with the Bench Street premises. (See “Shakespeare Hotel”). Problems emerged when the tram rails were laid in 1897. The sharpest curve described as a forty foot radius, occurred at George Corner, it became the custom for the conductor to beg a bucket of water from the packet yard and wet the rails in an effort to persuade the wheels to slide round the bend. There was opposition to the licence prior to 1909but that year the Chief Constable added his weight. The forces under his command were never happy about premises that could be entered and left from two streets, but in addition he pointed out that no yard was available and the toilets were in the basement, approached by a winding staircase. It was an achievement to get a suitable house licence at that period. That sort of evidence meant that the bells tolled. It closed on 31st December 1909. It was fully licensed and contained four bars. The lease expired in 1906 but it had operated since as a free house on an annual basis.
Demolition was proposed in February 1910 and was carried out in September after ownership passed from Dover Harbour Board to the town. No doubt it would have improved matters for the trams but I understand that it was 1903 before George Corner disappeared altogether.

Globe.
Bulwark Street.
This was closed for misconduct in 1849 but James Barker managed to reopen the following year. I don’t know for how long, I never came across it again. Another “Globe” was active on Commercial Quay in 1860 however.

Globe.
7-8 Peter Street. (St. Peters Street)
George Beer and Rigden were the last brewers to use this one. The street dates from 1830 but some of the houses are dated 1872. This particular property was licensed by 1844. Its size may have altered at some time. It was just number eight in the nineteenth century. It was considered surplus to requirements in 1932. There were ten other pubs within two hundred yards. The brewer had practically rebuilt it over the past twenty five years and sales increased from 159 barrels in 1925 to 201 in 1931. The opposition melted. Twenty-four years later the brewer wished to enlarge by annexing number six. In reply Dover Corporation gave twelve months notice of their intention to purchase the property in the interest of redevelopment. (Which turned out to be an extension of Dover Engineering Works). The end came in March 1958. Charles Maxted had served at this bar since 1935 and then moved along the street to the “Friend in Need”.

Goat’s Head.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of William Dawson in 1545.

Golden Anchor.
30 Commercial Quay (Pentside)
I saw a ninety-nine year lease for these premises dated 6th April 1895 and I am inclined to regard that as the start. It was used by Mackeson and was just one more which made way for redevelopment. Compensation of £915 was credited to the brewer and £165 to licensee Mrs Harriet Meade. It disappeared with the other quay properties in 1930.

Golden Arrow.
Beach Street.
Formerly the “Terminus” but changing on 3rd April 1962 when the brewer was presented with the headboard from the famous steam train of that name by railway representatives. Percy Pettet continued as licensee. In keeping with the trend, the public and salon bars became one in 1978. As a Whitbread house and possibly their nearest one to France, it closed in 1987. Boarded up for months but in October 1988 Sealink (British Ferries) were given permission to use it as offices with refreshment facilities over for use by truck drivers in transit. As I retype this page in September 1989 alterations are proceeding to further those plans.

Golden Cross.
13 St. James Street.
This outlet of Charrington stood on the corner with Golden Cross Passage and opened at five a.m. from 1881. Another with the sign was reported in Snargate Street in 1826. (John Tylden). When structural alterations were made in 1860 a small gold cross did come to light. It had been passed down through the family and the proud possessor today is David Clark of Tenterden.
Bomb damage was responsible for the closure on 7th October 1940. Further damage by March 1941 made the building so dangerous that rebuilding was called. That brought a decision that was to affect all the licensed premises throughout hostilities. It was ruled that although rebuilding was out of the question the brewer should not forfeit the licence. Post war a compulsory purchase order was made for the site and war damage building thereon in January 1954. It was confirmed in May 1955. The brewer in turn asked for the licence to be transferred to a newly built house on the Buckland Estate and it then passed to the “Wheelwright’s Arms” in 1956.

Golden Fleece.
A “Golden Fleece” was closed in 1870 together with the “True Briton” and the “True Blue”. The report said all were in the same vicinity.

Golden Lion.
11 Priory Street and Priory Place.
Already well establishment on this corner in 1846. It came about in the first place when two tenements combined. One of those was 3 Priory Place that had been used as a stable and storehouse. Another “Golden Lyon” as spelt, was part of the town in 1736. I would think the seaward end because I note that the owner received a bill from Dover Harbour Board that year claiming £42. 9s. 3d. Unfortunately no address is known but Richard Evans kept a house with this sign in 1811. The Priory Street property opened at five a.m. from 1881. Reinstatement of was damage was permitted in 1949 at a cost of £135. A house of Fremlin.

Goldsmith’s Arms.
Possibly a pub. Token coinage existed, dated 1667, and bearing the name and insignia with the initials WMK for William Keylocke.

Good Intent.
Queen Street.
Well established by 1844 and an inquest was conducted there four years later when the mate of the schooner “Carl Adolphe” out of Hamburg, fell from the masthead into the hold. The unfortunate man fought a losing battle for seven days. Perhaps of interest also a schooner named ‘Good Intent’ often put into Dover and Rye. It belonged to the smuggling fraternity and its false bulkheads fore and aft, provided room for 147 kegs of brandy, either end of the craft. The revenue cutter ‘Sylvia’ eventually arrested her in 1837. Dry land perhaps the last of the keepers here. There were signs of disquiet between 1882 and 1885. It was the intention of somebody to seek a new licence that year but the application was withdrawn.

Gothic.

29 Snargate Street and Northampton Street
A fully licensed house of George Beer and Rigden, open in 1868 when I suggest it would have belonged to Kingsford. In 1839 J. Dickenson opened a gothic fronted house on this site in order to retail coffee, spice and cigars. I do not know how long he reigned but he stated at the time that he did not intend to sell goods at tremendous sacrifice, or greatly below prime cost, or twenty five per cent cheaper than any outlet house in the trade. Redundancy was avoided by the pub in 1915 when the back bar in Northampton Street was said to average eight and a half barrels a week.
In 1938, Dover Harbour Board the owners, were anxious to remove the house but considered they might be saved the expense and embarrassment if it was dealt with by the Compensation Authority. The brewers naturally took exception to that interpretation of the Act but the claim was pressed nevertheless. Within four hundred yards were another forty-one licensed premises as well as six clubs. What more could be said? It proved to be March 1949 before the building was taken down.

Grand Hotel.
Wellesley Road.
Four houses of this terrace, built in 1846, were converted to provide this hotel that opened on 19th April 1893. Electric light the eighth wonder of the word at that time was installed in 1897 by the Dover Electric Light Company. They had based themselves on Park Street three years earlier. An early casualty of world war two, it was struck on several occasions, initially on 11th September 1940 when one wing came to grief. Post war, the Grand Hotel Company wished to rebuild but their repeated requests over the years were all refused. I take it that compulsory purchase was the end result. Certainly Dover Corporation paid £4, 300 for the hotel and a figure of £3,750 was mentioned in 1954, apparently concerning the garage in Townwall Street. Frank Luck gave the town £1,000 for the privilege of clearing the site from June to October 1951.

Grand Shaft Inn.

23 Commercial Quay and 74 Snargate Street.
An outlet of Dover Brewery Company in 1868. The Grand Shaft tunnel leading to the barracks above had opened in 1802.By 1896 Dawes and Son sought a new licence for premises they were about to erect in Heathfield Avenue. It was only issued with the proviso that this one be surrendered. These premises then continued as tearooms.

Grand Sultan.
30 Snargate Street and Northampton Street.
This was the neighbour of the “Gothic” and the “Invicta” stood opposite. An outlet of Flint, it had another entrance from Northampton Street but that was discontinued from 1915. Stiles received a new licence in 1868 and five a.m. opening was allowed from 1881. Some of you will have an interest in the licensees and it might be opportune here to say that Mrs Mary Ann Taylor remarried at this pub in 1902 and became Mrs Hunt. It averaged five barrels weekly when it was declared redundant in 1915.
Agreed compensation in November that year allotted £10 to Dover Harbour Board £538 to the brewer and £142 to the tenant.

Granville Arms.
43 and 106 Limekiln Street.
Formerly the “Donegal Arms” the name changing about 1867. For many years the number was 106 and it was always referred to then as the “Granville Arms Inn”.
There was talk of renumbering the street in 1874 and it would have been done also after world war two but I have no knowledge. Once the number became 43 it was always “Arms” and the bomb damage of September 1940 was made good at a cost of £617. It was part of a compulsory purchase area and the Corporation had to withdraw the notice to treat to allow that work to proceed.
The closure came in 1967 and the site has since been used to park lorries and trailers.

Granville Arms.
Adrian Street.
Built at the top of the street and known previously as the “Return” the name altered in 1867. As that was the same year as the house we have just left, you will appreciate that the researcher is sometimes inclined to look the other way. I saw no mention of it again after 1868.

Granville Bars.
Granville Gardens.
Earl Granville was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1866-91 which fact no doubt influenced the name. The gardens were opened on 3rd August 1878 when the wine licence of the old bathing rooms was transferred to Camden Lawn Refreshment Rooms. The early licensees were Caterina and Volma Semadini. Applications for a beer licence were refused in 1894 and 1895 but success came in 1896. Hobday was fortunate enough to get the full licence in 1899 but for the restaurant only. Consequently we then had the “Granville Hall Restaurant” with its wines and spirits, adjoining the Granville Gardens and facing the sea. When the title “Granville Bars” first appeared I never discovered, it is doubtful if the premises were still open at the time because by then the gardens were the site of a barrage balloon, but the bars are known to have suffered bomb damage on August 14th 1940. Post war the area was grassed over.

Granville Hotel.
35 Townwall Street.
An outlet of Thompson and Sons, Walmer Brewery, and known as the “Druids Head” until changed by John Folwell in 1883. Another victim of world war two, it was seriously damaged by March 1941. Although rebuilding was out of the question at that time the licence was renewed in fairness of the owner. A compulsory purchase order was advised in January 1954 and confirmed in May 1955, for the former site of the hotel. The brewer held the licence in suspense and in 1953 agreement was reached between all parties as to its future. On July 31st 1957 it was transferred to Stembrook allowing the “Roman Quay” to open. The hotel remains were taken down in the second half of 1957.

Grapes.
58 Maison Dieu Road.
The original was built in 1862 and it was sold together with four others belonging to Mrs Harding in 1890. It realised £1, 200. It had been built forward of the building line and created a danger by 1893. It was therefore moved and following a road widening was re-erected further back. Once an outlet of Bass Charrington but owned by Robert (Bod) Bowles since 1972 who declared it a free house, changed the sign to “Louis Armstrong” provided music with his own band.

Grapes.
29 Winchelsea Street.
On the corner of Winchelsea Road, this changed from Whitbread to Shepherd Neame in July 1973. The street itself dates from 1866 and a predecessor of this stood on the opposite corner in 1867. The present house was being constructed in 1873 and the first establishment ceased trading to allow the opening here.
Still with us in 1991 and a larger bar installed in 1987 by Gary Moffat in addition to a spotlighted stage. (To encourage the local talent?).

Great Gun.
26 Adrian Street.
On the corner with Adrian Row and obliging thirsty customers in 1857. The Kingsford brothers paid Satchell or his executors £570 for this in 1881. I think the “Cambridge Arms” would have stood on the opposite corner at another time. It became the “Nottingham Castle” in 1884.

Great Mogul Tavern.
8 Adrian Street.
This was the sign from 1854. It had previously been the “Odd Fellows Arms”.
The Mongols a yellow nomad race from central Asia founded the Mogul dynasty in India in 1525. The British officiated later. But enough of that because I must advise that in 1867 the name changed again to “The Bell and Lion”.

Green Dragon.
16 Strond Street.
Kept by Holmes in 1791 and an outlet of Shepherd Neame at the closure it stood opposite the old harbour station with a passage to Custom House Quay on one side and the “Royal Mail Hotel” on the other, 27 yards away. I sometimes came across a “Dragon Inn” which I presumed to be the same. Shepherd Neame were the lessees from Dover Harbour Board in 1938 when it was referred. With eight other fully licensed houses within two hundred yards, or fifteen within four hundred yards, the result was inevitable. Compensation was paid on 24th December that year. If still present, the property would have been removed in 1951 together with the remainder of the street.

Green Man.
22 Erith Street and 45 George Street.
Another with the like sign was once the property of Kingsford but there is evidence also of another in the 1860’s in Adrian Street or Adrian Row. The Erith Street premises served the public from 1871 and perhaps sooner. The street itself is dated 1839. The compulsory purchase order for this street and George Street was confirmed in November 1966 and the pub closed on 11th September 1967. With few exceptions, the area was then rebuilt and a car park for residents now occupies this site.

Greyhound.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of 1545. Thomas Scott supervised when the Crosswall, (Union Street), was built in 1583. He resided at a billet of this name kept John Spritwell. Perhaps the same. His work by the way was altered structurally in 1977-8 when part of the Wellington Dock was reclaimed and the road at that point considerably widened. A seventeenth century token once circulated in the town, with the inscription “Roger Rogers, Greyhound in Dover, 1665, RFR” The white greyhound it might be said, was the badge of the Tudors.

Greyhound.
10 Union Row.
A beer house of Leney that passed to Gardner’s Ash Brewery. Fully licensed by 1913and at different times since 1858 the number appeared as 10, 23, 24 and 25. Strong moves were initiated in 1913 to prove this surplus to requirements but the storm was weathered that year. It was 31st December 1936 before a like charge was made to stick. That year forty-one licensed premises, thirty-one of them fully licensed stood within three hundred yards. That meant curtains without looking any further. Gardner does seem to have retained his interest in the property however because he was refused permission to effect repairs costing £395in 1947.
This finally disappeared in the 1970,s when flats were built on the land above the new York Street.

Griffin.
3 Folkestone Road.
Once the “Upholsterers Arms” the sign changed in 1878. A beer house that was built soon after 1844 and permitted to open at five a.m. from 1878. That concession continued after 1900.George Beer bought it in 1929 for £2,500 and enlarged the living accommodation in the rear. He may even have had added upper storeys, he certainly had plans to do so that year. War damage was made good in April 1950, but later, a widening of the road proved necessary and it was taken down consequently in the early 1970’s.

Grocer’s Arms.
Possibly a pub. A token of Edward Chambers once circulated showing that he lived in such house in 1649. Another token of Richard Cullen dated 1656, also carried the name but stated categorically that he was a grocer of Dover.

Grove.
Laureston Place.
Closed for misconduct in 1842 but reopened again by Hoile that year. It traded from 1839 but I never saw it mentioned again after the later date.

Guilford Arms.
Tom Ladd 1805.

Guilford Hotel
36 Liverpool Street.
Managed by Pentecost from at least 1856 and becoming later a fully licensed outlet of George Beer. It had formerly been known as the “Four Porters”, the sign changing in June 1860. Its location, in 1845 was between Woolcomber and Trevanion Street, with a playground and tea garden between the hotel and the road. Pentecost stayed until at least 1877 that would be twenty-one years without looking further. The number would have altered over the years. Its position might more readily be identified if I say that when it was made redundant in 1913, the “Mail Packet”, “Star and Garter” and “Providence” were all within 125 yards. Compensation of £780 went to George Beer and £147. 10s. went to James Denny the tenant. £5 went to property owners Dover Harbour Board. A fire occurred in the bar of this hotel in April 1913, which event may have taken place whilst the negotiations proceeded.

Guildhall Vaults.
2 Bench Street.
Reckoned to be a pretty old one this. John Bachelor, the Mayor of 1600 was the keeper of a “Guildhall Tavern” near the Market Place and this it was said could be traced to 1690. Previous to that it had been titled “The Bull” with a large assembly room at the back for meetings and concerts. A passage used for the movement of French prisoners ran from here to the Western Heights. It belonged to Walker when it was sold for £1, 300 in 1859. The title “guildhall Vaults” was certainly in use from 1805. It was extensively damaged by fire 13th May 1888. It closed in March 1942, the property then of Ind Coope and Allsopp. Another victim of world war two, it was damaged when an oil bomb landed in Bench Street on 6th October 1943 setting fire to it. The “Dover Tavern” has since been erected on the site for Ind Coope.

Gun Hotel.
Strond Street and Custom House Quay.
This obliged customers in 1791 and the Hipgrove family were in residence for at least forty years from 1830. It was a family and commercial hotel and the “Tap” was an appurtenance that we know was present in 1864-5.
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 1902.

Half Moon.
7 Blucher Row (or Street)
Active on the land above York Street in 1839 but proved surplus to requirements in 1906 when Gardener’s Ash Brewery received £631 in compensation and Stephen Collard the licensee £600. Most of the property in the Row seems to be either empty or gone by 1910. Perhaps this escaped. There is further evidence of demolition in 1934. It was described in 1913 as being boarded up because it was too large to let as a dwelling. It was still there in 1924 when a closing order was made. That year it was used as a store with living accommodation over. Its dangerous condition proved its downfall.

Hand and Sceptre.
8 London Road.
It was rebuilt for £1,200 when its previous ninety-nine year lease expired. It was fully licensed by 1916 when it sold the products of Phillips and Company. Unsuccessful attempts were made that year to have it declared redundant. World war two saw the suspension of the licence in 1940 and although it reopened post war, it had ceased functioning as a pub in February 1961 and the premises have since been used as a retail shop for toys.

Harbour Ale Shades.
Snargate Street and Crosswall.
Adamson kept such a house from 1849-1864. Adams and Company also kept one called “The Ale Shades” in the 1880’s. Sometimes the address was Snargate Street and sometimes Five Post Lane. I am content to regard that as the property that later became the “Trocadero Bars”. Concerning the Crosswall. An “Ale Shades” was reported there in 1863 but a licence went to Cook for the “wine Shades” at the Crosswall in 1864.

Hare and Hounds.
Folkestone Road.
One of our old beer houses and one of the last in the town to relinquish the role. On the very outskirts of the town as one departs fro Folkestone and already well established there by 1854. Another with this title once traded from the Market Square and that later became “The Walmer Castle”. An outlet today of Shepherd Neame.

Harp Hotel.
15 Strond Street.
The original well established by 1848 had to make way for the railroad in 1859. That year, the Harbour and Priory Stations were connected. Charles Spice got a new licence, packed his bag and moved along the streets to this number where the new “Harp Hotel” opened on the site of a former factory. The back of the hotel was damaged by fire on 26th April 1890 but repairs must have proved possible because the hotel continued to 1904. A “Harp Tap” kept by Castle in Limekiln Street in 1862 may be associated and if so would denote entrances from two streets. Although this licence did not lapse before 1924, when the hotel was converted into flats, no liquor was served after 1904. During the intervening years it was used for a wide variety of activities. The flats themselves were closed by the health authorities ten years after being opened. In March 1938, the Harbour Board decided on demolition rather than renovation and it disappeared that year. It would have been the neighbour of Holy Trinity Church. I was never able to connect a brewer with this one.

Havelock Arms.
69 Tower Street.
Buildings began to appear on this side of the street about 1850. Although Sneller served here in 1870 he may not have been the first. Havelock commanded the troops who were sent to relieve the besieged garrison at Bucknow in 1857. His forces did achieve that object but became a part of the garrison themselves consequently as they were unable to break out. Havelock himself died shortly afterwards of dysentery. All of which perhaps may have some thing to do with the origin or the title. The number prior to 1939 read 35-36. I never discovered the answer to that. It only remains to say that Whitbread outlet had closed by June 1975.

Helmet.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of 1545. Thomas Everedge.

Hen and Chickens.
Charlton.
A beer house of Sarah Ann Clark in 1841.

Hero Tavern and Music Hall.
Market Square.
The property of Leney and Evenden in 1863 but destroyed by fire that year. The “Phoenix Tavern” was then erected in its place.
Holiday Inn.
Townwall Street.
Building of the hotel commenced in April 1972 and the opening followed on 10th December 1973. It can best be described by saying that it contained all the modern conveniences of the day plus other refinements such as a swimming pool. It changed hands in January 1985 when Queens Moat Houses, who also owned the “Dover Stage”, bought the hotel naming it “Dover Moat House”.

Hope Inn.

2 Great Street and 15 Council House Street.
Perhaps the address changed or maybe it stood on the corner of the two streets. It was always Great Street up to 1856. Robinson was the patron in 1843 when he received notice to quit, as the ground was needed by the approaching South Eastern Railway. He successfully obtained a licence for other premises in the same Square and was ready to move when the railway decided it did not require the site after all. The air was blue of course. It was kept by Archer in 1819 but for many years the Marbrook’s officiated, being associated with it in fact over two centuries. The next people to want the site were Dover Corporation who was trying to redevelop the district. They were happy to pay £1, 947 for it with the knowledge that it would be more under Compensation Scheme. The licence passed to them in 1913 and subsequently lapsed.

Hope and Anchor.
Blutcher Row.
An outlet of Page, the Archcliffe brewer and situated at the top of Durham Hill above York Street. His executors sold to Satchell in 1847. The circumstances in 1881, at that time the house had been closed for nine months was that the Superintendent of Police was recommending that it should not be allowed to reopen. That year it passed to Barker of Loose, near Maidstone, together with eight other licensed houses of the town and the “Spotted Cow”. Perhaps he was lucky but I never came across it again.

Horse and Jockey.
New Street.
Present in 1839 and James Timan from 1840-5.

Hotel de Paris.
Crosswall.
This thoroughfare ran from Union Street to Clarence Place when built in1661. The hotel can be traced to 1869 but already established by then. In 1913 a family and commercial hotel, Gardner was the lessee, but it was always a freer house by agreement. In 1928 Wordsdell was accused of selling smuggled liquor and being jobless as a result, the lease passed to Cone. Apparently without the knowledge of the brewer of the Bench, which seems remarkable to say the least. Whatever the outcome, it must have been settled amicably because Cone was succeeded by his wife in 1936. The closure came in August 1950 when the lease expired. Dover Harbour Board had redevelopment in mind and took down the house the following April. The full licence then moved to the “Royal Oak” at River replacing its beer and wine licence.

Hovelling Boat.
Seven Star Street.
A licensed house in 1805 but the address in 1826 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.

Hoyman.
Commercial Quay.
John Rogers 1793.

Imperial Crown.
48 Tower Street.
Ratcliffe in 1861 and if not the first he could not have been far off that distinction. It was an outlet of Fremlin when Godden applied for the spirit licence in 1960. Up to 1928 it was always 46a. I can shed no light on that. It does have the appearance of being single storey extension that has been added at some time. A Whitbread outlet that was on offer in August 1989 but not expected to continue in the trade.

India Arms.
Beach Street.
George Curling 1826.

Inkerman Arms.
Bowling Green Lane.
On the corner with Blutcher Row it shows on maps of 1871 but I have not had the good fortune to see it mentioned otherwise. The battle of Inkerman occurred on 5th November 1854 on the Sevastopol front. Of little interest here but perhaps worth mentioning also this was the former name of what is now called the Ropewalk.

Invicta.
155 Snargate Street.
Gardner once had an outlet on this site known as the “Warrior”. It was still being reported there in 1895 but on the other hand, according to my noted Paramour had the “Invicta” there in 1887. That is probably an error on my part that I mention to avoid arguments. In 1908 the doors of the pub were set back three feet from the pavement making the bar smaller. That does not suggest a busy time but perhaps things were better in 1950, when an application was made for the floor and frontage of number 156 to be added. The rear of these premise were destroyed by fire on 24th June 1972. A further fire broke out in the derelict premises at a later date, and although it was still standing in March 1973, it was only prevented from collapse by the use of beams and scaffolding and was taken down shortly afterwards. A Whitbread House.

John of Gaunt.
Strond Street.
It is only known that the ‘Highflyer’ coach left here at six a.m. every weekday in 1810, for the “George Inn” in the Boro’ and the “Blue Boar” at Holborn. It arrived twelve hours later and there was an intermediate stop for one hour at the “Sun Inn” in Chatham.
Jolly Porter.
Kept by Moon in 1805.

Jolly Sailor.
Belonging to Walker’s brewery in 1814 and known previously as the “Three Brothers”. Another with this sign traded from the South pier area from 1792-1838.

Jolly Tar.
Strond Street.
Present in 1805 but it had to make way for the railway in 1859. Vineer the keeper moved to the nearby “Royal Oak” in Oxenden Street.

Kent Arms.
90 Limekiln Street.
Kemp officiated in 1862 and Hyman saw the close in 1913. The town paid £500 for it that year but the Harbour Board still seemed to have an interest after that. I note that a payment of £640. 17s. was made to them in 1922 but that would also have related to 84-89 Limekiln Street. The evidence suggests that would still not necessarily have been the last payment. One side of the street had been removed by 1935. It was then renumbered and Council flats were erected. The licence lapsed in 1914.

Kent Hotel.
Beach Street.
A new licence went to Peake in 1845. Skinner ruled in 1847 but I saw no mention of it again.

King Alfred.
1 Portland Place.
Above York Street on the corner with Durham Hill and kept by Little in 1852. The closure was the result of the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910. It closed these doors on 31st December 1914. The licence lapsed and George beer received compensation of £782 and licensee Winnifrith received £30. This was the thirty fourth pub to vanish from the town in ten years. It then became a private dwelling. When auctioned as a freehold property in 1859 it had realised £400.

King Edward VII.
1 Goshen Road.
A licence application by George Beer in 1900, for a house he proposed building on the corner of Wyndham Road, at a provisional cost of £2,000 was rejected. He had offered to surrender the “Marquis of Waterford” but nine other licensed houses already plied their trade in Tower Hamlets.
A second try by Newton Chapman was present in 1901. That time the surrender of the “Royal Oak” in Oxenden Street was suggested. Forty-one houses had meanwhile been erected in Devonshire Road as well as others in Douglas Road so he was favoured. A slight alteration in the site though, to the corner with Devonshire Road. The opening was 1902, the licensee William Henry Rogers and the pub now serves Whitbread.

King Lear.
Aycliffe.
Built as a private dwelling in 1877 but transformed into a pub in 1937. That year Leney wanted the full licence of the “Bowling Green Tavern” transferred here. He was refused then and also the following January. His appeal to Quarter Sessions in April however proved successful. The premises had meanwhile been altered to conform to regulations and the public were welcomed from 30th April 1938. Today it offers the beverage of Whitbread.

Kings Arms.
A victualling house of this name existed in St. James Street in1545. Police reports mention a pub with the sign in Limekiln Street in 1844 and it is known the 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.

King’s Head Hotel.
10 Clarence Place. (King’s Head Street & Crane Street.)
A free house fully licensed, which stood on the corner latterly with Lord Warden Square. Its origin lay early in the seventeenth century. The owners show on maps of 1624 as William and Ann Bradshaw. Only six stagecoaches ran in England in 16772. The terminus for the Dover being the “White Hart”, in the London borough of Southwark. (That sign associated with the badge of Richard II but the building itself taken down in 1889.) It can be said that coaches left this hotel in 1819, at six and eleven thirty and four thirty p.m. for the “Golden Cross” at Charing Cross; the “Black Bear” Piccadilly; the “Spread Eagle” in Gracechurch Street and “Blossom’s Inn” Lawrence Lane London. All made the return journey the same day. This sold for £3, 775 in 1876 and again in 1932 it was on offer but did not reach the reserve price. By 1934 it belonged to Hays Wharf and following extensive alterations it was renamed Ferry House, being then the accommodation of the Continental Express Company who moved here from Northumberland house in Strond Street. For better or for worse a new god called the juggernaut appeared in the sixties and no person or building was allowed to stand in its way or hinder the new religion. Continental Express were obliged to leave the premises in July 1968 the only café in the area was unceremoniously shut down and the demolition of the building commenced in March 1970. The ground thus gained was then used for the parking of private cars and the formation of a private road.

King William IV.
72 Biggin Street.
Whether the years 1830-7 hold any significance regarding the name is mere speculation. The earliest licensee coming to light is Mary Hart in 1847.
Some rebuilding took place in the street at the end of the last century, but found no evidence of that here, apart from the numbering altering as others are rebuilt to a grander scale. It was always 77 up to 1895. This beer house of Flint passed eventually to Whitbread. A planning application was presented in March 1977 that asked for the demolition of numbers 72-77 Biggin Street and their replacement with shops and offices. In furtherance to that, the new year of 1979 saw the closure of the pub and the building itself disappeared in November that year.

King William.
12–14 Tower Hill
Active previous to 1850. I saw it referred to several times as “William 1st” and earlier in the century the number was 31. It was an outlet of George Beer and Rigden when an enemy shell struck it on 10th December 1942.

King William.
22 Woolcomber Street.
Police reports mention it in 1843. There is also a report of a great storm that year when it was used to house shipwrecked mariners. I was never able to connect a brewer with this one. The Westside of the street had to be demolished in 1893-4 to widen the road. By arrangement with the Dover Corporation, the owner received £1, 005, the lessee £318. 19s. and the occupier £108. 5s.

Knight’s Arms.
Snargate Street.
Daniel Palmer 1858.

Lady Cockburn.
Princess Street.
Samuel Blackmore 1832.
Lass.
See “Criterion.”

Laughing Toad Wine Bar.
High Street.
An ‘on’ licence was granted in 1986 enabled this establishment to serve the public with wine, beer, lager and cider. The following year the business moved to Deal.

Laurel Tree.
Priory Street.
The licence was refused in 1867 and 1868. A spirit licence was refused in 1869 but Chard got the ale licence restored that year. I saw no mention of it after 1871.

Leopoldus Tavern.
This shows on a token of 1651. Later a farthing token of 1666 gave the initials of the host as G and M.F.

Liberty.
Adrian Street.
Bromley got permission to draw at this beer house in 1868. Four a.m. opening on weekdays only, was allowed from 1872 and three thirty a.m. from 1874. It occupied the corner with Five Post Lane and at the close belonged to George beer and Rigden.
Slum clearance saw a compulsory purchase order made on his street in 1936. Seven houses, including this one, escaped at that time. The others had gone in 1937.
In 1938 the Compensation Authority stated that within two hundred yards were twenty-three other licensed premises, seventeen of the fully licensed. For good measure somebody added that within four hundred yards there were forty-five licensed premises as well as six clubs. The renewal was refused in March that year and compensation was awarded on December 24th 1938. I have no details.
Lighthouse.
Prince of Wales Pier.
This had a delightful site on the end of the pier but it opened the summer months only, firstly on 12th May 1972. The brewer was Bass Charington. It would not have been the first at this location. It would not have been the first at this location. Frederick Hotels held a licence in 1901 but that was for the exclusive use of passengers using the Hamburg-America liners. On another pier that year, the Promenade and Pier Pavilion Company Ltd also served drinks. The “Lighthouse” unfortunately did not prosper. 1973 would have been its last active year.

Lillypot.
Biggin Street.
A Victualling house of 1545.

Lion Hotel.
Elizabeth Street. (Square)
One side of the street vanished completely when the Harbour Station was built in 1860. Standing across the road, this hotel was left facing that great edifice. The early address always read ‘Square’. His wife followed William Brockman in 1832. Belonging to Page, it was on offer in 1874 together with” The Three Compasses” “Northampton Arms” and the “Spotted Cow”. All doubt it would have passed to Satchell because it was on offer again in 1881 with his other outlets. That time Barker of Loose near Maidstone was the buyer. The town had possession of this one by 1914 and the licence was allowed to lapse.

Lion Inn.
By order of Henry VIII in 1545 all inns and victualling houses of the town were required the show painted signs, on boards one foot square and hung over their entrances so that the public might more readily identify them. That commitment was already met by these premises and was not affected.

Little Phoenix.
The prefix ‘Little’ was not always used and with the other “Phoenix” in being after 1864, awkward to say the least. Certainly a new licence was provided here in 1857. I never saw mention of it after 1882.

Little Waldershare.
Laureston Place.
At the upper corner of the street on what was once one of the main coach routes of the town. Castle Hill, as we know it today, did not materialise before 1797. Before then, the route had been via Laureston and what came to be called the zig-zag for obvious reasons. Extra horses were picked up at this inn to assist the coach up the steep hill. My mind conjures up the problems of descending also. Fector the Dover banker is reported as taking down this establishment in 1836 and then building Laureston House in its place. The name was said to honour his wife who hailed from Laureston in Scotland. Perhaps I have the wrong year, but there was certainly a Laureston House prior to that. The effects of a Captain John Hatley were auctioned from just such a dwelling in June 1834.

Liverpool Arms.
38 Townwall Street.
Erected between St. James’ Passage and Mill Lane and active in 1860. It was whilst Dane served in or about 1900, the name changed to “Chandos”.

Londonderry Arms.
Active in 1858-9 but regret no address found.

London Packet.
13 Commercial Quay.
An early alehouse, holding a six-day licence in 1847. The seven-day cover was effective from 1881 but a spirit licence was refused that year. Five a.m. opening began here in 1879 and Winnifrith witnessed the closure in 1895. The licence was then surrendered so that the “Cricketers Arms” might open.

London Tavern.
Market Place.
I only saw mention of this once, when Clarke kept it in 1862. That year Worsfold and Hayward, estate agents, would have acquired the building or site.

Lord Clyde.
19 Limekiln Street.
This sign was also reported in Priory Street in 1867. Foreman managed the pier property in 1874, selling the products of Page. It passed to Satchell at that time, when its 61-year lease had commenced on April 6th 1867. He not only had a job renewing this licence in 1878. Objections were also entered against the renewal of the “hope and Anchor”, the “Folkestone Cutter” and the “Sportsman” by compromise this was renewed in his own name. I have the impression it was part of the brewery itself and in 1881, when it had already been closed for six months the bench gave it the thumbs down.

Lord Nelson.
St. James Lane and Flying Horse Lane.
On the corner the original being a licensed lodging house where the sign had been displayed since at least 1805. That house was destroyed by fire in 1872 but was rebuilt and the freehold with licence was on offer in 1881. Mason Maidstone took possession, paying over £1,000. In 1923 whilst it was still in use as a lodging house, with 23 beds, efforts were instigated and the licence commenced. Within 137 yards were “the Red Lion” “Robin Hood”, “Prince of Wales”, “Wine lodge”, “Chandos”, “Dolphin”, “Granville Hotel”, and “Sussex Arms” plus the Market Square properties which all competed. The workers dwelling there at the time provided the obvious answer. So many would have been deprived of their digs that common sense prevailed with the result that the pub still serves us today a fully licensed outlet of Shepherd Neame.

Lord Raglan.
Biggin Street.
Known as “The Three Tuns” when kept by Prebble in 1805, the name probably commencing during, or after the Crimean was, (1854-6). Certainly several regiments from that campaign returned to Dover at the peace. (But left abruptly to quell the Indian mutiny shortly afterwards). Positioned between New Street and Worthington Street, on that side, I suspect it was once the “Folkestone Arms” but I have no evidence. It may be of interest to say that William Terry saw the closure here in 1873 and a William Terry also kept the “Alma” some thirty years later. It ended with the street widening in 1893.

Lord Roberts.
75 Snargate Street.
Known once as “Sir Garnet Wolseley” and “Lord Wolseley”, it was a beer house of Flint, served also from another entrance in Commercial Quay. It faced the Grand Shaft Barracks and its neighbour was the “Duke of Cambridge” This was the title from 1898. Moves to close it began in 1906 but it survived to 1913. That year, eight other licensed premises were all within eighty-six yards. “The Mitre” was eleven yards distant and “York House” twenty-seven. It was sixty yards to the “Ordnance”. Sixty six to “The New Commercial Inn”, fifty to the “Standard”, the same to the “Golden Arrrow”, eighty three yards to the “Union Hotel” and eighty six to “The Barley Mow”. Of £349. 10s compensation Flint took £253, the Harbour Board £52. 10s. and £44 went to licensee James Broadbridge. Perhaps appertaining to the title. Roberts would have taken over as C-in-C from Wolseley about that time.

Lord Warden.

The large hotel at the South pier, which opened in 1853 never had a public bar so does not come within the limits of this work. On the other hand, the title was reported on Commercial Quay in 1846-7. A “Lord Warden Tap” was evident in 1847 but I have no address. A “Little Lord Warden” was reported in Union Street in 1864 and the authorities were quick to close it that year. The popular drink of the day was Sir John Barleycorn when Barzillia Birch served under this sign in Snargate Street in 1849.
In 1862, the authorities pointed out that were twenty-six licensed premises between the “George” and the “Clarendon Hotel”. But perhaps more damming, that 115 to 120 Snargate Street contained four of those premises. Even so, it did survive and it was 1868 before the licence was finally suspended.

Lord Wolseley.
75 Snargate Street.
Formerly “Sir Garnet Wolseley” the name changed between 1879 and 1882. Surprising perhaps because Lane served and he was an ex. Navy man. In 1898 it changed again to “Lord Roberts”.

Louis Armstrong.
58 Maison Dieu Road.
An outlet of Charrington for many years and known as “The Grapes”. Robert (Bod) Bowles joined the pub in 1962 and changed the sign to “Louis Armstrong” in 1972. By 1981 he had also declared it a free house and entertained with his own band.

Maidenhead Inn.
An inn of 1545 kept by Dawson Parnell. The name “Mayden Head” also appears on a token of Thomas Fidg during the seventeenth century.

Mail Packet
37 Woolcomber Street
From 1227 to 1467 channel packets would have obliged passengers from this area. That ended following cliff falls and the silting up of the estuary so that by the late fifteenth century, the Pent to the West was more accommodating. This number in 1852 read 15. The end is a mystery. It closed for the duration of hostilities in September 1940 but I found no evidence of it being destroyed or reopening either. If not before it would have been removed in 1956.

Maison Dieu Arms.
It is only known that Thomas Bourner kept it in 1854.

Malvern Hotel.
Selbourne Terrace.
Kingsford brothers proposed building a house adjoining this terrace in 1880. Their application was frowned upon at the time but it did find favour the following year when the brewer offered to surrender the “Deal Cutter”. Jackson moved from the “Princess Maud” to open here in 1882. Many different brewers utilised it over the years and today it serves Shepherd Neame.

Man of Kent.
Paradise Street.
Wray in 1854.

Marine Arms.
Woolcomber Lane.
Active in 1838 and the name changed to “Prince Victor” in 1865.

Mariner’s Arms.
15 Commercial Quay.
Otherwise known to the troops as “The Khedive”. An outlet of the Wellington Brewery but sold by Mrs Harding in October 1890 for £975. The licence looks to be suspended from 1868 to 1871 but the pub was certainly active again after that. The Bench did refuse to renew the licence however from 1891 onwards.

Marlborough Head.
South Pier.
Bowles filled them up in 1805 and somebody still traded from there in 1839.

Marquis of Anglesey.
46 York Street (Priory Lane & Black Ditch)
On the corner with Bowling Green Lane, Stephen Smith might well have been the first to serve in 1847. It was a fully licensed outlet of Flint, one of his nine pubs in the town. Four of those had already disappeared by 1917 but the “Marquis” continued to 1929 when the licence was allowed to lapse. Dover Corporation paid compensation of £1,250 to Flint and Company who in turn allowed £25 to the tenant. The property sold for £230 freehold in 1930 and became a retail shop thereafter. Redevelopment saw the whole area compulsory purchased and demolition proceeded in the 1960’s. That programme had already started in 1935 with the renewal of properties in Adrian Street. A new road now assists traffic using the docks and a vast area, which has been unproductive for years, is at last receiving attention in 1989.

Marquis of Lorne.
We know that the Marquis married Princess Louise in 1871. It can only be said here that this passed from Alfred Buckland to William Cork in 1872.

Marquis of Waterford.
1 Union Row.
The Row dates from 1840 but Burton is our first contact with the trade in
It does not show on the maps of 1871. Plans for rebuilding, at a provisional cost of £800, were approved in 1903. The licence had changed hands five times between 1894 and 1899. George Beer would have liked to transfer this licence in 1900 to a pub he in tended building on the corner of Wyndham and Goshen Road. He was refused permission so perhaps he spent the money here instead. A regular event during the days of the large garrisons. John Marsh put his life’s savings into the pub but misdemeanours at a nearby house gave the military sufficient reason to place the whole area out of bounds to troops and consequently break him. It closed on 29th December 1923 when the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910 was enforced. It was described as a practically new house, recently rebuilt and fully licensed. George Beer was compensated with £1,012. 10s. and Marsh received £100.

Mason’s Arms.
24 High Street (Charlton High Road)
Well established by 1838 and although closed for a time early in world war tow, open again by March 1942. It closed finally on January10th 1977, ostensibly to be used as a shop with living accommodation over but eventually it was a restaurant that materialised. It was a Whitbread property and a pub with the same sign had traded from Seven Star Street in 1858. (George Underdown).

Maxton Arms.
Present in 1854, but two years later the name changed to “City of Charlton”. Without an address the mind boggles.

McCartney’s Wine Bar.
Church Street.
A licence allowing this bar to make its debut was granted in August 1982. The proprietors were Reach Realm Ltd. The manager was Michael Hogben. Later owners were Margaret Denne and Michael Watts. It closed early in 1989 but reopened as a licensed restaurant later.

Mechanic’s Arms.
Strond Street.
I have to say first that this sign was reported in Buckland Road in 1861and 1867. The Strond Street amenity was fully licensed by 1869. From 1874 and opened at five a.m.
Redundancy was proved in 1911 when Dover Harbour Board were compensated with £50 they being the freeholders. The lessee was paid £100 and the sub-lessee Alfred Leney £262. £41 was allotted to the tenant.

Medway Inn.
Limekiln Street.
Charles Freshner in 1847.

Metropole Hotel.
19-21 Cannon Street and 24 New Street.
Built at a cost, including furnishings of £17,000, following the road widening of 1893. The opening was on 18th 1896. The bars for some years were in the front of the building but in 1927 they were moved back and were replaced with a shop.
Plans for a new “Metropole Theatre” were produced in December 1905, they no doubt being the forerunner of the hall that materialised in the rear. It was a family and commercial hotel in 1911-12 but the whole passed to the Dover Motor Company in 1915 and it was then used as a garage, offices and showrooms.
The Plaza picture house later utilised that hall and first opened on 1st July 1929. In the years following world war two it developed as a leisure amenity for the bingo enthusiast and the bars only operated then as part of a club. It had always been a free house previously. A description of the property in 1962, when it was offered to the highest bidder with an un-expired lease of twenty-five years, gave fifteen flats, showrooms, offices, bars and a shop. Nobody was attracted. The reserve price of £14,000 was not reached. Very dilapidated looking as I type this in March 1990 and the best of my knowledge awaiting demolition.

Milestone.
49 London Road (Buckland Street.)
Its name was derived from the milestone that stood outside. It was fully licensed, served by George Beer and was established by 1861. It was considered surplus to requirements in 1910. “The Crown” stood nearby. Not in its favour either was the fact that the licence had changed hands six times in eight years. The Quarter Sessions in July that year thought likewise and the licence was surrendered. £771 was awarded to George Beer and Company and £50 to the tenant. It then became a private residence and later a shop.

Military Arms.
Snargate Street.
The Pout’s officiated in 1854. The renewal was refused in 1869 but an appeal proved successful. It was refused again the following year however and it never showed again under this title.

Miner’s Arms.
9 Beach Street & 37 Seven Star Street.
Once the “Seven Stars Inn” and then the “Admiral”, this name appertained from 1897. The sinking of the Brady and the Simpson pits at Shakespeare Colliery had begun the previous year. Perhaps the miners lodged here. It had been a lodging house in the past. I don’t know if it was still so employed. There were entrances from the two streets and its neighbour was the “Deal Cutter”. Redevelopment brought about its closure on 31st December 1909 and 1912 saw a closure notice on the house itself. The street properties all disappeared shortly afterwards. Those houses in turn disappeared in the early 1970’s with little prospect of residential property ever returning. The street name is perpetuated however by the Beach Street entrance to the Western Docks.

Mitre.
92-3 Snargate Street.
The first with this sign was on the other side of the street at number 77. Some of its bars could be entered from 26-and 27 Commercial Quay. It faced the Grand Shaft Barracks and was described as an inn early in the century but as a tavern by 1882.
A fire broke out on 8th January following which a committee was formed to discover why the hydrants failed. The mind boggles, but whatever, it must have proved possible to effect repairs because the pub continued. In a fashion I might add, because the licence changed hands sixteen times between 1885 and 1906.
Quayside improvements caused the removal of this one in 1929. Fremlin then transferred the licence to these premises, almost opposite, in March 1929. That was confirmed in January 1930 when the new facility was almost ready.
An unfortunate casualty of world war two. It was destroyed by enemy shellfire on 26th September 1944, only hours before the offending guns were captured.

Mogul.
Chapel Place.
Previously known as the “New Mogul” which closed on 22nd May 1986 and came close to be being destroyed by fire in November the same year. It was repaired and restored with a larger bar, and reopened as a free house in June 1987. The prefix ‘new’ then being dropped.

Morning Star.
New Street.
A beer house that lost its licence in April 1843 when a second conviction for drinking out of hours was secured.
Mulberry Tree.
Beach Street.
Built at the extremity of the street under Arch Cliff, it was well established in 1807 but its site had to be surrendered to the South Eastern Railway when they arrived in 1843. A “Mulberry Tree” was also said to occupy ground at the entrance to Shakespeare tunnel itself, complete with tea gardens, at the bottom of the zig zag winding footpath that descended the cliff. Apparently whilst the tunnellers were still engaged on that project. Old prints do show a building in that vicinity. I know not if that it is the same. Many of those tunnellers were said to lodge in Archcliffe Square but I have also read that not a room in the whole of the pier district was left unused.

Nag’s Head.
Commercial Quay.
Argar served here from 1847 to 1852 and Barr in 1856 but after that I never came across the same again.

Neptune Hall.
Hawkesbury Street.
A fully licensed house of Mackeson, Hythe. In 1882 the number was 21 and in 1884 it was referred to as “Neptune Arms”. Pilcher received a new licence in 1845.
In 1910, £2,375 was paid by Dover Corporation for four licences. I have assumed that the “Neptune Hall” was included. When the Compensation Authority people entered the picture later that year, the Corporation were awarded £717. 17s. 6d. and the tenant £70. Other premises referred that year were the “Milestone” “Pier Inn” and “Beaconsfield Arms”.

Newcastle Arms.
Limekiln Street.
Present in 1827 and known previously as the “Black Pig”. Its position can be identified by the account of a fire that destroyed the oil mills in August 1853. It stated that the only way the pub could be saved was by continuous hosing throughout.

New Commercial Quay Inn.
25 Commercial Quay. (Pentside)
The number read 22 in 1882 and 15 in 1911. It faced the dockside and opened at five a.m. from 1876. It was taken down with the rest of the Quay property in 1929. Dover Harbour Board were the owners and George Beer and Rigden the lessees. It had this sign since at least 1832. (Jackson). A compensation figure of £3,475 was made but I know not how it was divided.

New Endeavour.
132 London Road.
An outlet for Gardner that passed to Whitbread. The spirit licence was issued in 1863. World war two saw it closed in October 1940 and the reopening came in 1941. Charles Clapson retired from here in October 1969 and there is no evidence of successor. After 1971 the premises catered for the do-it-yourself enthusiast up to 1989 and then upholstery.

New Inn.
33 York Street (Priory Lane & Black Ditch)
Established by the 1830’s and reputedly having associations with the smuggling fraternity in the past. An underground tunnel was said to connect this house with the “Five Alls” and a regimental ghost was reported, dressed as a Chelsea Pensioner, who no doubt frightened the revenue officers away. In 1877, as an outlet of Truman, Hanbury and Company, it was known as “Buckland’s New Inn”. Certainly Buckland was the patron from 1873 to 1879. In the post war years a new road was considered necessary to connect Northampton Street to Folkestone Road. The town therefore bought the pub and closed it in May 1962. Demolition was complete by December.

New Inn.
Woolcomber’s Lane
Active in 1847 and continuing to 1875 when the licence was forfeited. There had been previous convictions and on this occasion it was out of hours drinking. Added to that, the house was said to be badly conducted and had become the resort of low woman. What more could be said? A new tenant was not allowed.

New Mogul.
5-6 Chapel Place.
Used at different times by Gardner, Tomson and Wotton and Whitbread. Gardner from 1885. I do not recall seeing this on maps of 1871 although “The Great Mogul” was busy in the area at that time. Redevelopment threatened its continuation in 1936 and again in 1972, when the operations were resumed. The dust having settled, this small part of Chapel Place is still with us today. The same family kept it from 1908. Nellie Wilson being the last. She departed in March 1986 and although Bill Cooper tried to fill the gap, he soon suffered ill health himself. The pub closed on 22nd May 1986. Derelict and boarded up, it was ravaged by fire on 19th December that year. Considerable damage resulted to the roof and the interior. Phil Gilham and Frank Franklin accepted the challenge and were given permission to draw from the rebuilt premises in January 1987. It was then “The Mogul” the prefix ‘new’ having been dropped.

Noah’s Ark.
Union Row.
A beer house situated on the land above York Street. Its keeper was fined £5in 1856 for doing the wrong thing and that sounds too much for a first offence. This probably meant the end. I never heard of it again.

Northampton Arms.
Northampton Street.
A former refreshment house that was licensed by Weidmann in 1869. It was an alehouse only. The spirit licence was refused that year and also in 1874. It passed from Satchell to Barker in 1881. By 1891 it was said to be frequented by women of ill fame and that would appear to have been the nail in the coffin.

North Pole.
8 Oxenden Street.
John Perry 1832.
North Sea Boat.
Watson 1805.

Northumberland Arms.
8 Adrian Street.
Never happy with the same name for long. It was first found as the “Odd fellows Arms”, then the “Great Mogul Tavern” and later, the “Bell and Lion”. This was the sign from 1878. The Northumberland Fusiliers were expected to relieve the Worcestershire Regiment early in 1879 but there is no evidence that they did so.
Allen was the only brewer I ever managed to connect with it. At the same time as this sign went up, the licence became restricted to six day trading. I know nothing of this one after 1885. The Superintendent of Police objected to this renewal regularly and the neighbours continually complained of the constant noise and rowdiness that interfered with their lives. Allegations of prostitution were also made so that could have meant curtains. Even the respectable houses were finding life difficult.
Nottingham Castle.
28 Adrian Street.
Fully licensed and once known as the “Great Gun” the sign changing in 1884.
It avoided the redundancy net in 1906 but seems to have been cornered the following year. Within one hundred and twelve yards were the “Prince Louis”, “Beaconsfield Arms”, “New Mogul” and “Criterion”. The police described the premises as not only ill conducted but also difficult to supervise.

Odd Fellows Arms.
Adrian Street.
Later this became the “Great Mogul Tavern”, about 1854 of thereabouts. A complication does arise however, because another of the same name was reported in Beach Street in 1863-66. Perhaps a desire on the part of somebody to perpetuate the name.

Old Commercial Quay Inn.
16 Commercial Quay.
This outlet of Leney faced the dockside and possessed a 61-year lease from Dover Harbour Board that had commenced in April 1867. £400 was spent on improvements in 1893 but nevertheless changed hands eighteen times in twenty years up to 1906 so the closure that year would not have surprised anyone. Compensation was agreed in October that year and Leney received £850 and the tenant £70. It continued as a private dwelling.

Old Endeavour.
124 London Road.
A house of Shepherd Neame and reputedly named after a privateer called “Endeavour” which was fitted out at Dover in July 1746. In 1982 a window was installed by voluntary contributions to recognise and acknowledge that.
For many years this was popular with the local motorcycle fraternity and was used by them for meetings in the seventies and eighties. They also had their own window installed denoting ‘The 69 Club’.

Old Fountain Inn.
23 Caroline Place.
Belonging to the Dartford Brewery Company, it was fully licensed and geographically speaking was part of a cul-de-sac in Stembrook. Active in 1839 with its stables housed at number 31 but in 1908 they were let independently to Alfred Leney. The Place was composed of twenty-nine houses two being vacant that year. Redundancy was proved in 1908. It was described then as being an alehouse and it was also said to be fully licensed. Many were so described at the time of their demise but I have not the necessary knowledge to give you a reason. I can say that the pub evolved through the conversation of a cottage and boasted a front and back parlour. Agreed compensation in October 1908 gave the mortgagee £489 and the tenant £76. Following removal of the properties in 1951 guess what? That’s right another car park.

Old Post Office Inn.
120 Snargate Street.
Subject to the number being correct, this later became the “Victory”, “PrinceArthur” and “Ordnance Inn”. Prince Arthur later Duke of Connaught was a resident in Dover in 1872, a fact that may have bearing. I also note however the Prince Arthur Lodge of Oddfellows MU. was founded in 1873.
I never saw the “Old Post Office” mentioned again after 1871 so perhaps a reasonable assumption. There may also be some significance to the name regaining the former use of the premises but I never pursued that one. It is sufficient for our needs to say that it was licensed from at least 1862.

Olive Branch.

Worthington Street (Worthington’s Lane & Gardiners Lane)
The street has held its present title since 1895 when the thoroughfare was widened. It was nearly called Military Avenue following that. The pub was on the corner with Queen’s Gardens and was a beer house up to 1842when it obtained its spirit licence. An outlet of Ash and Company, it could well have been there since 1859
When Walker sold for £360. The road widening meant the end of course but the brewer received £900 from Dover Corporation and possibly another £637 for the licence. That being accepted by 1896 the licence had lapsed and the property removed.

Orange Tree.
357 Folkestone Road
Much of the groundwork concerning this licence was performed by Brazier and Curling in the last century. Brazier could even be said to have died whilst still trying. He had some support in 1873 when the owner of the “Tradesman’s Arms” on Commercial Quay offered to transfer his licence. He was not permitted to do so. The ‘ale’ off licence was procured that year but it was 1895 before Curling got the beer ‘on’ licence. His application had been backed by a petition signed by ninety of the one hundred and thirteen householders in the area. Looking towards the town, 136 dwellings had materialised between here and the “Engineer” at that time. In 1889 there had been less than fifty houses at Maxton but there were a hundred by 1893. The full licence came later the same year and buy then it was an outlet of Dawes, the Maxton brewer. Concerning the property itself, which was always described as a newly built house in the applications, it was the opinion of the past licensees that tow cottages had been converted. They stood well back from the road and the conversation date is put at 1890. It is now a Whitbread outlet where David Hanney improved the bars in 1978.

Ordnance.
120 Snargate Street.
This was the former “Old Post Office”, “Prince Arthur” and “Victory”. The last name must have been adopted somewhere between 1895 and 1903. An “Ordnance Arms” addressed simply ‘Paradise’ was kept by Rottom in 1805. A bomb landing on the roof on 20th May 1916 must have shook the building somewhat and it may have been a victim in world war two also. I do not know. It just seems to vanish into thin air after 1932. I found no evidence of its closure but I found no mention of it either after that year.

Ordnance Arms.
4 Queen Street and Chapel Place.
On the corner with Chapel Place it was fully licensed and supplied by Leney. As an alehouse up to 1859 it belonged to Walker’s Phoenix Brewery. Later there were two bars. The private one was approached from Queen Street and the public bar from Chapel Place. There were no parlour facilities. The licence changed hands four times in six years and the authorities were quick to note the fact. Redundancy was proved in 1908 and Leney received compensation of £1,100. The licensee got £128 and the premises continued as a fried fish shop. (See also “Ordnance”).

Oxford Music Hall.
8 Last Lane (Bourman’s Lane)
Formerly the “American Stores” and “Who’d a Thought It” I suggest this title came during Lane’s occupancy in 1867. I have no proof. It was certainly a beer house up to 1870. A spirit licence was refused that year and one was still being sought up to 1873. The name changed again between 1880 and 1882 when it became “The Criterion”. That was still the sign when it was taken down in 1970. I believe the site is still derelict in March 1990.

Packet Boat Inn.
Strond Street.
Another with this sign was reported in Bulwark Street in 1874 and the “Packet Boat and London Family and Commercial Hotel” was part of Council House Street. Having said that to confuse you, we can now identify this one by saying it stood two doors from Holy Trinity Church. Already well established in that location in 1805. Walker’s lease probably commenced in 1814. By 1851 a further attachment, known as the “Crown and Anchor Booth” had become a part. That may have ended in 1854 however. Certainly Newing came in for much criticism over it.
The properties of Walker were auctioned in 1859 and this one, with its extensive yard, stabling and coach houses, realised £1,300. Its 61-year lease had commenced in April 1834. Because of the house with like name in Council House Street it is difficult to trace the coaches. In 1823, Bates Coach left every day from here at nine thirty a.m. to make the Deal trip, returning the same evening. By reciprocation Hobson’s coach did the same starting from Deal. Spain’s coach left at eight a.m. for Romney, also retuning in the evening. I suggest that Union Safety Coaches ran to London twice daily from here. That journey took nine hours and was made without change of coach or coachman. With freight, the Dover wagons of Ruley, Stanbury and Young, left Snargate Street at noon daily and arrived at the “White Hart”, Southwark, the next morning. Another left the “White Hart” at two p.m. and arrived at Dover the following day at nine a.m. I found no evidence of this one after 1863.

Palace.
See “Phoenix Tavern”.

Paris Hotel
91 Snargate Street.
I must point out first that a “Paris Inn” of Snargate Street was said to be kept by Standen in 1863 and also a “Paris Hotel” served the traveller in 1873 and was kept by Jones. That is the sum total of my knowledge concerning two and they should not be confused with this name, which stood on part of the site later utilised by the Packet Yard. That means it must have closed by 1854 because that year the yard was first used by a private steam operator. Later it was utilised extensively by the London and Dover Railway Company to service the ships and their channel fleet. Later it provided the same service for Sealink (U.K.) and then passed to a private company who maintained the fleet of hovercraft. To provide road improvements it was removed in September 19
Paris House adjourned that yard and the railway used it to house their resident engineer for many years. Behind the “Paris Hotel”, under the cliff, Colman, Potter and Grant produced Grant’s Morella Brandy. Much of that plant was destroyed or buried by a cliff fall in January 1852 after which the business was continued from inland. The Packet Yard Foundry was likewise destroyed in 1937 and later, the riggers and the shipwright’s shop succumbed to the same fate. The boilermakers shop only partially destroyed. Worthington’s coaches ran from the “Ship” and “Paris Hotel” to London. They left at six every morning and four every evening for the “White Bear” in Piccadilly and the “Cross Keys” in Wood Street. London obliged with a service to Dover leaving at the same times. The mail coaches commenced their operations from the port in 1786 and the others came later in 1798. (The terminus for the Dover Mail Coach in 1815 is thought to be “The Bull and Mouth” in Newgate Street.

Park Inn.
1-2 Park Place.
These properties were built in 1863 and the first opened as a pub the following year. Early opening was allowed from 1880 and continued after 1900. Meanwhile the premises were rebuilt in 1896. The brewer closed for the duration of hostilities on 11th October 1940 but the “Golden Cross” having become a casualty, Hayward moved here to reopen. A free house today but an outlet of Thompson’s Walmer Brewery for many years.

Paul Pry.
Tower Hamlets Street.
Present in 1884 but auctioned as freehold property in 1859 when it was stated to be in close proximity to the extensive tunnelling of the East Kent Railway. At that sale it realised £395. By 1867 when James Gann served the sign was “Coach and Horses”.

Pavilion Hotel.
Custom House Quay.
At various times it was described as a tavern an inn and a hotel. It stood on the corner of a passage leading to Strond Street. Prior to world war two it was always known as “The Pavilion Bars”. Latterly it belonged to Watney, Combe and Reid. It was demolished in January 1950 for quayside improvements. The licence was transferred to the “Trocadero Bars” in 1953.

Perseverance.
161 Snargate Street.
I only ever saw this referred to as a beer house, which sold for £470 in 1881. It held a 61-year lease from Dover Harbour Board, that having commenced in April 1867. Between 1885 and 1890 the name changed to “Avenue”. It remained closed for much of world war two but was reopened, perhaps during, but probably after by Hendy. It became a free house in October 1981 with the new title “Arlington”.

Phoenix
See “Little Phoenix”.

Phoenix Tavern and Music Hall.
21 Market Square.
This was erected on the site of the “Hero Tavern” following its destruction by fire in 1863. A popular place by all accounts which opened in 1864 and was advertised as opening every night of the year. It was rebuilt in 1897, the builder being challenged to perform the task in sixty days. The corner stone was laid on 15th July that year with a bottle containing a note that invited the public to the first show that was billed the sixth day of the ninth month. The builder was W. H. Gillett and presumed he met the target date because it certainly opened in 1897. The difference being that it was then named the “Empire Palace of Variety” a name that it retained to 1910 when it became “The Palace and Hippodrome Southern”. In the winter of 1916-17 it was lent free of charge by Leney and Company to the East Surry Regiment. Their malt houses at Maxton were likewise converted into a recreational centre for the troops. It might be of passing interest to mention that in 1916, their cooperage yard in Castle Street and their mineral water factory in Russell Street had both been bombed. Also perhaps worth mentioning, the Oil Mill Buildings in Limekiln Street were also used at that time as the barracks of the East Surrey Regiment. The name “Palace Theatre” was used post war so perhaps it reopened. If so, it would not be for long. It had closed again by 1926, although it must be said the licence was conscientiously renewed every year up to 1942 when it was finally destroyed by enemy action on 23rd March. Efforts had been made in 1936 to transfer the licence to the refreshment rooms of Townsend Ferries at the Eastern docks. It was refused then but it may have come about later.

Pier Inn.
2 Beach Street.
This free house occupied the corner position with King’s Passage. Fully licensed and supplied by Flynn and Company of Herne Bay towards the end but earlier by the Burton Beer Company of Herne Bay. It possessed its own livery and stables and was already well established in 1844. It should not be confused with the “Royal (Pier) Hotel”. The doors opened for coffee drinkers at 4 a.m. from 1872 and three thirty a.m. from 1874. It was one of the few pubs allowed to continue that practice after 1900. Barker bought it from Satchell in 1881 but on 1st February 1890 it was gutted by fire. Repairs must have been possible because it did reopen later. 1910 saw opposition to the licence renewal. That year five pubs still serve in Beach Street and by 1912 the pressure was really on, the “Brussels Inn” stood nineteen yards away the “Terminus” 25 Yards, the “Cinque Ports Arms” forty eight yards and the “Dover Castle Hotel” were both within one hundred yards. The station buffet stood opposite with the station itself at that time occupying the other side of the street. The last remaining portion of that was removed in February 1963. 1912 saw it referred and the licence withheld. The town was busy trying to clear the district at the time but obviously all the details did not reach the electorate. It can be said that the licence had lapsed by 1913 and Mrs Absalom to T. H. Gardiner leased the property at the end. A payment by the town may be significant. It was for £75, being leasehold interest in respect of properties bought in connection with the pier scheme.

Pilot Boat.
John Gillett 1792.

Pineapple.
Bunkers Hill.
At the base of the hill, opposite the “Bull” this offered ale and cider from 1830. One of two cottages was converted to provide that facility and your host was Thomas Gould. From 1837 the Victoria Tea Gardens were also part of the attractions. This is another of our locals that was reputed to have been part of the smuggling chain. Lundy House nearby, with large cellars, also had that reputation after 1820.
The alehouse ended in 1845 when the property was enlarged to provide a rectory for St. Andrews Church. Too late to look now, for approval was given in November 1972 for the demolition and rebuilding of the rectory.

Pimlico Tavern.
Oxenden Street.
Present in 1866 but between 1871 and 1874 the name changed to “Duke of Connaught”. It belonged to Page up to 1874.

Plough.
A beer house, already obliging the public by 1858 and a popular house with the garrison of Dover Castle who always called it the “First and Last”. It went from Page to Satchell in 1874 and to Barker in 1881. Eventually it passed into possession of the Rev. F. A. Hammond who bought it with the intention of converting it into a private dwelling. Following that transaction it transpired that the brewers lease had to run the full term. It was 1892 therefore before Hammond’s wish came true but he held the unusual distinction of being a vicar- publican in the meantime.

Plough.
83 London Road.
Her daughter Elizabeth then followed Flora MacDonald present from 1850 and her. Flora also seemed to have an interest in the “Three Compasses” at the same time. There is evidence of another “Plough”. It was a beer house kept by Payne in 1839 but was addressed simply Charlton. The following story is associated with the London Road property in 1845. A man called Prickett was taking some wellington boots for repair when passing the pub he considered he had better first attend to his thirst. After consuming six pints of beer he made to continue his way, only to find that somebody had the tops from the boots. Many of us will be surprised I think that he ever noticed.
This pub closed, (from lack of trade?) some time after June 1969 and by late 1971 became a retail outlet for the car trade.

Plough Victualling House.
St. James Street.
Jasper Jure in 1545.

Plume Of Feathers.
Limekiln Street.
Knowles kept a pub with this sign in 1725 and old records indicate that Susan Nichols purchased the bricks and mortar that year for £3. 5s. She being the highest bidder. Durtnall is our next contact by 1859 but was reopened that year when the licence was restored. I have no knowledge of it after 1861.
Porter Victualling House.
Alys Rockingham in 1545.

Primrose.
30 Coombe Valley Road (Union Road)
The sign was said to immortalise a soldier who was active in the Afghan war. “Old Primrose Hall” also had its place in the road but that was part of the road haulage industry. The licensed property, known as “The Primrose Hall” occupied the corner site with Primrose Road. The number would be different before 1901 but the site is the same. Present in 1857 and a new licence in 1864 may suggest rebuilding or a fuller licence. An attempt was made in 1886 to open another outlet at number twenty-three necessary permission was not given and I impress upon the reader that the number of that house will also have changed over the years. Closed for several months from June 1980 while alterations were effected and also in 1983for the same purpose. The end product that time incorporated and associated gimmicks which probably catered for one section of the community whilst promoting discontent in the other camp when only one bar was available. No middle ground developed. The pub opened with the sign “Strides” it depicted running athletes. Somewhat short lived because by 1985 the name one more became “Primrose” the sign then displaying that popular flower. A Fremlin House.

Prince Albert.
83 Biggin Street.
Certainly present in 1847 and it was also said to be there, at the top of the street, in 1764. The number varies over the years as some of the properties were rebuilt. That applied to this inn when it was purchased by Burden from Barnett in July 1879. I am also under the impression that it was rebuilt again in 1907 but my notes do not confirm tin any way. It has been suggested that the name honoured a visit by the Prince Consort in November 1842. I always keep an open mind. The executors worth mentioning on 2nd October 1889 when the bar was wrecked by an explosion in the cellar. Serving Whitbread today from one large bar that was the inspiration of William Hagger in 1978.

Prince Alfred.
55 East Cliff.
Owned by Whitbread at the finish but previously utilised by George Beer and Rigden and Gardner’s Ash Brewery. A new licence in 1857 suggests many different possibilities.
When five a.m. opening was permitted here in 1898, it meant that twenty houses were then doing so. Another eighteen were opening at three thirty a.m. The concession with regard to this one was withdrawn the following year.
While George Savage held the tenure in July 1970, the name was changed to “First and Last”

Prince Arthur.
120 Snargate Street
Once the “Old Post Office” and later the “Victory” and the “Ordnance” this title sufficed from 1874. The Prince served with the Rifle Brigade and their headquarters formed part of the garrison that year. It next became the “Victory” in 1884, probably following the fire that visited the premises on 21st February that year.

Prince of Hesse.
113 Snargate Street.
This was also referred to as “Princesse Hesse” on occasion so I point that out first. We must not quarrel. A new licence was issued in 1871 but that would not be the first. We know that drink was available in 1862. The year 1874 saw four different licensees-, which in itself- is something of a record – and efforts were made the following year to transfer the licence to “Sir Garnet Wolseley”. It was not allowed but the brewer had seen enough. It became a private dwelling.

Prince Imperial Hotel.
1 Strond Street.
Positioned at the juncture with Limekiln Street, with the Royal Victualling Yard at one time occupying the quay in front of the hotel. A new licence went to Conradi in 1864. He also received another new one in 1869 when it was described as a new elegant building. An advertisement of 1881 claimed that it was the prettiest bar in the County of Kent. The statement does not seem to have been challenged.
War damage had closed the hotel previous to 1945 but following repair post war it reopened in January 1946. The final closure came at the termination of the lease in September 1950. Demolition followed in November 1951 and the license was suspended. Mackeson.

Prince Louis.
1-2 Chapel Lane (Grubbin’s Lane or Gubham’s Lane)
A fisherman’s cottage, one of a row of five, was converted to provide this one. I know not when. It was established by 1784 and the title prior to 1914 was “Prince Louis of Hesse”. World war one saw that abbreviated. The name of the lane altered about 1820. War damage repairs were authorised in November 1951 and a description at that time is well worth repeating. The walls and ceiling were decorated with about two hundred and forty articles. Included were swords, horse brasses, guns, including a two-inch model ships, etc. There were also three hundred and four photographs displayed three hundred and fifty one beer mats, two hundred and eleven service flashes, hundreds of foreign currency notes and a ships wheel. The removal of the property was considered necessary and when it closed on 28th September 1969 it was reckoned to be about three hundred years old. It belonged to Thompson’s Walmer Brewery and as I write in 1989 there is at last signs of redevelopment in this area. Demolition was authorised by the Ministry of Transport in June 1970 and was carried out the following October. The District Valuer allowed compensation of £49, which covered the accountant’s bill of £39 and £10 towards removal.

Prince of Orange.
8 New Street. (Turne-againe Lane)
As a beer house of 1846 it presumably commemorated the Prince, who was reported off Dover, with five hundred ships and transports, on 3rd November 1688. His landing was much further west so hardly of local significance until his succession.
Rigden and company had plans approved for rebuilding in 1901 and on completion it stood on the with Queen’s Gardens. It later passed to Fremlins and Ernest Lee made extensive alterations to the bars in 1980. In September 1991 ownership went to Jones Hadley Houses, (Gareth Jones & Trevor Hadley). Your host, Kieron Gibbs.
Another pub had displayed this sign. It traded from Stembrook and older residents will remember it more readily as the “Ancient Druids”.
Prince Regent.
Market Square.
On the corner of Tavernor’s Lane and Market Lane, the material used for its construction gave the impression of antiquity or perhaps of penny pinching the back wall in particular seemed to have been erected with any old bricks or stones which were lying conveniently around at the time. It was always referred to as the “Regent Inn” during the last century and Edward Thompson served there in 1826.
A “Regent Tap” later called “Young England”, dispensed beer from Market Lane in 1851 and Buckhams or Buckman kept the “Regent Wine Vaults” in 1853, “The Tap” did not come under his supervision, that being kept by Newing, but the “Regent Tavern” was covered by the licence of the “Regent Wine Vaults”. The “Tap” must have been a hot seat. The many doubtful characters who congregated their with every encouragement from the owner, were responsible for many a licensee losing his living. All the pent up fury of years was said to have boiled over one Saturday night in May1853. During that disturbance the fighting was said to take place from the top to the bottom of the house. The keeper was taken away to answer a lot of questions but he told the police that the proprietor should answer, as also did his follower shortly afterwards. Perhaps a bit quieter by 1900 when five a.m. opening was allowed and certainly a popular house in world war two. It had closed for the duration on 11th October 1940 but Moody, who had been with the house since 1935, reopened in 1941 and was later, succeeded by his wife Doris in 1964. It was destined to close in 1974-5 and arrangements were made to erect a replacement at the juncture of Queen Street and the new York Street. That fell by the wayside when the old building was declared to be of architectural interest. The name for the new pub had been suggested as “Captain Webb” after the first channel swimmer, the opening being visualised in August 1975. With that cancelled, it continued to trade for a few more years, closing finally in mid April 1983. The local authority sanctioned its demolition in October 1983 but it was still standing in 1986 when the upper floors were damaged and the roof destroyed by fire on 23rd September that year. Perhaps appertaining to the name, the Prince Regent did make frequent visits to the town after 1815 in order to receive allied sovereigns and heads of state. He was also present when LouisXV111 returned to France from exile on 23rd April 1814. The area did eventually see redevelopment in 1989. The pub came down as a consequence in February that year. “Captain Webb” did make its debut but not in the original position planned. The lane itself disappeared from 4th April 1989.

Princess Alexandra.
Commercial Quay.
This daughter of King Christian of Denmark married the Prince of Wales later King Edward V111 in 1863. That would seem sufficient reason for George Crisp to be granted a new licence here in 1864. It was no longer in evidence after 1869.
Princess Alice.
33 Snargate Street.
Present in 1847, next door to the “Royal Clarence Theatre of Varieties” demise came when the theatre was rebuilt on a much grander scale in 1896.

Princess Maud.
Hawkesbury Street.
The public drank here in 1847 and very early arrangements were made for coffee drinkers from 1872. A compromise seemed to emerge in 1859 when it amalgamated with its neighbour the “Railway Inn” to form one establishment.

Princess Royal.
Market Place.
Reported at the above address in 1852 but another was reported in Biggin Street in 1854.

Prince Victor.
Woolcombers Lane.
Formerly the “Marine Arms”, the change was made in 1865. I never found it again after 1867.

Prince of Wales.
Council House Street.
See “Crusader”

Prince of Wales.
Fishmongers Lane (Butchery Lane)
Still a beer house in 1939 but fully licensed at the end. Earlier up to 1848 or even later it had been “The Fishing Boat”. Under the later sign it was always referred to as “The Feathers”. This inn sign by the way was purloined within hours of the pub closing and I do not recall it ever turning up again. In 1936 a disused slaughterhouse next door was annexed to expand the premises and remedy deficiencies laid down by the health authorities. The end of February 1970 saw it as just another loss and the property was taken down in June 1974.

Prince of Wales.
George Street and Shooters Hill.
The build up of this area commenced in 1853 but Hammond was the first contact made here in 1870. It stood on the corner of the two streets and was fully licensed at the close that came in the licensing year 1963-4. It was brought by Dover Corporation in 1966 and demolished shortly afterwards so that residential accommodation could be provided. It was a Fremlin outlet.

Prince of Wales.
238 London Road.
Edmund Ashdown secured the spirit licence here in 1863 and was still there ten years later when some confusion existed. Another pub with the same sign was close-by and in 1873 this sign consequently changed to “The Fountain”. The motif suggests Whitbread but the wording over the door could denote a shared house with Fremlin.

Priory Hotel.
Station Approach.
Complete with coffee rooms, commercial rooms and stables, this was under construction in 1876. Tomlin was given permission to draw in 1877. The railway station opposite was first built in 1861.There is ample evidence of a “Priory Tavern” previous to that but I was unable to identify a site. It was said to stand in Folkestone Road. It was present in 1852 which year the licence was refused and I have presumed the new replaced the old later. This Whitbread house closed in 1988 and the following years saw much alteration by the way of alteration and renovation before being reopened by Tony and Julie Butts on May 4th May 1991.

Privateer.
It is only known that Dame Barnett served here in 1805. From all accounts the environment was a blustery one.

Providence Hotel.
31 Council House Street.
The Becker family were here in 1817. A “Providence Inn and Tap” are frequently mentioned in the last century and I had to discard much of the material gathered as it may have referred to the house in Trevanion Street. My notes suggest that in 1878 this changed to “Crusader” but I am way out of my depths concerning this one. It can be confidently said that up to 1874 it belonged to Page’s brewery.

Providence.
15 -16 Trevanion Street.
Active in 1881 when purchased by Kingsford and Company for £1,100. The Compensation Authority claimed it in 1923. November that year saw George beer and Rigden pacified with £802 10s. the tenant received £200. It closed on the 29th December that year and the premises continued as part shop and part dwelling. Permission to repair war damage was refused in 1974 and it was taken down in 1951.
Queen of Bohemia.
A token coin circulated the town in the seventeenth century may suggest a licensed house. It bore the portrait of that queen, who was Elizabeth, daughter of James 1st
Widowed in 1632 she came to this country at the restoration, dying here thirty-two years later.

Queen of England.
Ladywell.
A pretty title if you like. Kept by Collis in the reign of Victoria.

Queens Head.
18 Biggin Street.
An effigy of the queen’s head, presumably Victoria, adorned the front of the building together with the date 1873. That was the house that had been built following the road widening that year. The original had been well forward of that. Its neighbour from 27th August 1840 had been the Salem Baptist Church and that possessed a forecourt or front garden. The pub was said to protrude beyond that line. We know that it was active in 1791 under the direction of Elizabeth Purflow of Susannah Smith.
It was the property of Walker’s Phoenix Brewery when sold for £700 in 1859. Three years later it was damaged by fire but I have no details. Redevelopment of the site caused the closure of the second house in September 1971 but it stood empty until October 1975 before it was taken down and Boots the chemist erected.

Queen Victoria.
Blenheim Square of Middle Row.
The address was Middle Row in 1847 but Blenheim Square in 1865 when Bennett changed the name to “Black Horse”.

Railway Bell.
17 Beach Street and Seven Star Street.
I picked up much information concerning a “Railway Tavern” in Beach Street but the fact that we also had an “East Kent Railway Tavern” with the name frequently abbreviated and a “Railway Inn” meant that kid gloves were needed. The terms tavern and inn held a significant difference in the past but they were more loosely applied as time passed. A serious fire occurred in the Severn Star Street section on 2nd August 1882. The rear of the premises was destroyed and considerable resulted to its neighbours. Renovations must have proved possible because Mrs Harding sold it for £400 in October 1890. An outlet of the East Kent Brewery at the time the licence was withheld in 1912. I have no details but that would certainly have been the end. No doubt the local Council and the Compensation Authority were both involved. The rebuilding of Beach Street commenced shortly afterwards.

Railway Inn.
6 -7 Hawkesbury Street.
Well established by 1868 and opening at 5 a.m. from 1900. From 1895 its size increased following a merger with its neighbour the “Princess Maud”. Part of this site must have been needed when the viaduct was built because the Council owned some of the ground in 1914. The lease from April 1914 was for 35 Years. After the East Kent Brewery Company went into voluntary liquidation, it was transferred to Jude Hanbury and Company who shared the property with Mackeson at the close.
Eleven other licensed premises stood within 185 yards of this pub and it received thumbs down in 1932, closing on 31st December that year. Although used as a private dwelling from then, the brewer still seemed to have an interest in 1936 when they offered the lease to Dover Corporation. On the other hand and being honest if nothing else I must reveal that I read in 1954 that 7, 8 and 9 Hawkesbury Street including the “Railway Tavern” were purchased by the Corporation before world war one and had since been used as a dwelling house and latterly as a store or garage.

Recruiting Sergeant.
Buckland.
Thomas Cattermole in 1863 was the sole licensee I could find to connect with this one. That poor chap must have felt that you just could not win. After seizing a troublesome customer one day and depositing him outside on the pavement he was immediately charged himself by a passing constable for obstructing the highway. It is also difficult to imagine a house of this name being packed to the doors.

Red Cow.
1 Folkestone Road.
The original “Ye Olde Red Cow Inn” was set back from the road from Priory Place and possessed a large enclosed yard. It was there long before buildings appeared in Folkestone Road in 1843 it was known that in 1810 a piece of meadowland near the pub was used to form Priory Street. We also know that in 1805 it was kept by a character known as ‘Mighty Merit’ and in 1791 by Thomas Starr. Outward coaches to Ham Street, starting from the “London Hotel” picked up passengers here in 1882, coaches from New Romney to the inn ran every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, returning the same day. It was rebuilt at the turn of the century, or possibly in 1895 when Priory Place was widened. At a sale in May 1810 when it held a thirty-five-year lease from January 1906, it realise £2,400. In 1912 when Lewis was the host, the motor and livery stables next door would no doubt be an accessory. This was just another closure as a result of redevelopment in June 1971. The town took possession that month and it was taken down in October the same year so that the road could be widened. The new York Street with dual carriageways opened to traffic on 10th December 1972 and now joins Folkestone Road at this point the dust having long settled.

Red Lion
Charlton Green.
I could only find Tom Jenkins to connect with the original in 1826. At an auction held in May 1859, the old established freehold pub, recently rebuilt and together with its tea gardens, outbuildings and large stable was on offer. Few licensees hurried from here, which probably says a lot. It did have permission to close in world war two but it did so for a few months only in 1941. A Fremlin house. Closed 93 for alterations. Open again Xmas 93. Madeline Tansey.

Red Lion.
81 St. James Street.
The first house was a staging post for the Deal and Thanet coaches and the address once read 13 St. James Lane. The walls of that house incorporated a builder’s stone with the inscription 1676 CEM. It was taken down in 1894 when new and larger premises were erected and made available to the public in October 1895. It would then be positioned between St. James Lane and St. Margaret’s place. The stone from the old pub was included in the wall of the new. The wars were not kind to this one. On 23rd January 1916 a bomb fell on the roof during the early hours, another one hitting the malt house of the Phoenix Brewery. It closed in world war two when Charles Kingsman went to war and following war damage it remained derelict from 1943 to November 1958 when it was removed. An old Leney outlet, which passed to Fremlin and the suspended licence, was transferred in February 1959 to the “Plough” at Herne Bay.

Regent Tap and Regent Tavern.
Market Lane.
Possibly having connections with the “Prince Regent” in the past. The ‘Tap’ later changed its name to “Young England” but the continuous assembly of disorderly characters at the premises brought about its demise in 1854.
See also “Prince Regent”.

Return.
Adrian Street.
This sign changed to the “Granville Arms” in 1867.

Rising Sun.
Adrian Street.
A welcome sign in the winter no doubt. The authorities closed it in 1842 but Longley or Langley effected a reopening and it then continued to 1854.

Robin Hood.
Townwall Street.
On the corner with St. James Lane this was already a going concern in 1847 but plans for renewal were approved in July 1906. They were said to mean the practical rebuilding of the whole, at a cost of £600. An early casualty of world war two it never reopened at the peace. Permission to rectify the war damage at a cost of £930 was refused in August 1946. A second request by George Beer and Rigden in 1949 to partially repair the damage was likewise refused. The reason became clear in January 1954 when Dover Corporation made a compulsory purchase order, which was confirmed in May 1955. Further to that a vesting declaration ensued in March 1957 that gave them right of entry. The pub was demolished on their instructions in June that year. For the site and damaged building they made a converted value payment to the brewer of £3,250 in 1957. The licence was still in possession of Fremlin in April 1968.

Roebuck.
Old Post Office Lane.
This beer house kept by Morris in 1792 was sometimes addressed Strond Lane. Riggs was there in 1858 but I never came across it again after that year. I do note however that Riggs kept a “Plume of Feathers” in 1859.

Roman Quay.
Stembrook and Church Street.
This was erected on behalf of Charrington and opened on 31st July 1957. The licence to make that possible was transferred from the late “Granville Hotel” by then demolished and which now lay beneath the foundations.

Rose.
A “Rose Inn” shows in the census of 1545 and a halfpenny coinage token of 1666 shows that Thomas Green of Dover was at “The Rose” that year.

Rose.
24 Cannon Street.
There have been many guesses concerning the origin of this one so let us spend a minute looking at local history. We know that Challice kept a forge on this corner outside the town gate up to 1613 when he moved to another world. The gate itself was taken down in 1752 and some say that the “Rose” was built or rebuilt after that removal. Part of the adjoining town wall still standing in 1827 was removed that year. That led some to believe it was done so that the “Rose” could be built. New Street dates from 1783. It is also recorded that four years after the gate disappeared a stone was inserted into the wall of the pub to mark the spot. There are prints in possession of Dover Museum which give the impression that it was built on ‘stilts’ for want of a better word, with steps leading up to it.
When its successor closed in 1973 it was said to be nearly one hundred and fifty years old. So I have digested all that, I can now assure you that Cleveland kept the pub in 1826. When auctioned in May 1859 together with its so described excellent yard and outbuildings it realised £870. The house number will vary over the years. The low numbers started from this end at one time. A road widening at the end of the nineteenth century obliged Dover Corporation to purchase the property, including the stables for £1,594,6s. We know that following the widening the pub was rebuilt on the corner with New Street. Quite quickly too, Bourner was the licensee from 1895.
Used latterly by Whitbred-Fremlin but closed finally on 13th January 1973 the premises were then altered to accommodate a building society, another stone concerning Biggin Gate taking its place in the sidewall.

Rose.
Charlton Green.
Two doors from “The Grapes” and adjoining Palmerstone Terrace it was trading by 1865. A road widening became necessary in 1893 but the pub survived that upheaval. The brewer wished to move the licence and the business to 177-179 Clarendon Street but in 1897 the Bench would not allow that. Instead the licence was allowed to lapse so that a new one could be provided for a house that was erected in Westbury Road in 1898.

Rose and Crown.
8 Clarence Place.
The property shows on maps of 1624 but it is not known when it first entered the trade. It was selling liquor by 1843 and it opened at four a.m. in 1872 and three thirty a.m. from 1874. It was one of the few pubs allowed to continue with that concession after 1900. (But possibly five a.m. then). By 1909 the front of the building was in danger of collapsing and a re-frontage operation was performed. It proved to be a temporary solution because ten years later other plans called for the practical rebuilding of the whole. From all accounts that was quite an achievement. Its neighbour, “The Cinque Ports Arms” was of a like age and was in danger of collapse whilst the work proceeded. The exercise apparently called for perfect timing and execution. Further plans for alterations were approved in 1928 but I have no details. As a matter of interest and still present as I retype in 1989, but now only a blind alley, is the passage alongside the pub which once led to Middle Row in the old pier district.
This was damaged by enemy action early in world word two but was repaired and made operational again by January 1941. That was a rare distinction indeed and certainly the only case in the town that I know of. A past outlet of Rigden and Company, Faversham that passed to the Whitbread group. It closed in 1986 and remained boarded up and derelict to 1988 when it was renovated and integrated with the “Cinque Ports Arms”.

Rose and Crown.
60 London Road.
I know that it flourished before 1878 and it has the look of being rebuilt at some time but my searches revealed little. It was a Whitbread outlet latterly and Mrs Doris Kettle served drinks at this bar for something like thirty-four years. With her departure in 1984 came the end. The following year it sold clothes to teenagers.

Rose and Shamrock.
43 St. James Street.
James Joyce in 1868 and in 1872 he would have liked to transfer the licence to the “Burlington” in Church Street. He was stopped from doing so at the time.

Round Tower Inn.
Round Tower Street.
An old street because buildings were being renewed there in 1789. John Clark built the defensive tower itself on the South West side of Little Paradise Bay about 1500. He also provided a pier from Archcliffe Point before which building was not possible. Silt and shingle eventually closed the anchorage that resulted and the pier properties then came in abundance. Many of those disappeared when the South Eastern Railway commandeered the sites and many more later, when the South Eastern Railway lines were joined to those of the London and Chatham network. I have no knowledge of the pub before 1882. It was kept then by Cochrane previously of the “Little Phoenix”. Leney wanted to surrender this licence in 1901 so that the “Boar’s Head” might open. The arrangement seemed to suit. The town bought the pub and then sold the licence back to the brewer for £1,000.

Royal Arms.
Council House Street and Union Street.
The first was in Council House Street in 1853. The second in Union Street next to the “Three Kings” opening in 1868. Woodrow tried to transfer the licence to number twelve Commercial Quay the following year, but of the six houses next to number twelve, four were already licensed. The request was thrown out of course and we are left in wonderment. This disappeared when the anchorage was enlarged in 1871.

Royal Exchange.
Round Tower Street.
John Barnes in 1826 but it closed for periods in 1842 and 1851 and the renewal was refused that year. Another with the sign was said to be kept by Robert Birch in Beach Street in 1826.

Royal George.
7a Priory Street.
On the same side of the street, but four doors from the “Golden Lion”. The renewal was refused in 1842 and although subsequently allowed, was refused again in 1854. Misconduct brought about its closure again in 1859 and although it did manage to open again sometime between then and 1870 it was always known after that as the “Anglesey Arms”.

Royal Hippodrome.
33 -34 Snargate Street
Built originally as “The Theatre Royal” in 1790 but at that time opening in the winter only. As the “Dover Theatre” or “Clarence Saloon” Browning in 1858 who then featured concerts and ballet in the evenings. The name changed to “Gaiety Theatre” in 1875 and was bought by the brewers Kings and Company that year.
Known as the “Dover Theatre” when it was rebuilt in 1896 but as the “Dover Tivoli Theatre” when it reopened on 14th June 1897. The manager was Amand Mascard. The “Princess Alice” which had stood next door was swallowed by the new edifice, which did incorporate a bar of course, where the entainers could be met during the interval. The former bar had been the “Clarence Tavern” and later the “Hippodrome Bars” became just as popular. By 1903 it was the “Theatre Royal” once more, bit closed for extensive alterations in 1906. It next reappeared as the “Royal Hippodrome” reopening in March 1910. “The Palace and Hippodrome Southern” made its appearance in the Market Square the same year. In Snargate Street the proprietors by 1936 were North Britain Theatres Limited. The theatre including three bars and 35 Snargate Street had been sold on July 22nd 1931 when the lease was £160 per annum. The theatre carried on “Windmill” fashion during world war two but was forced to close in September 1944 and on the 25th of that month a shell from France took of the roof and part of one side. Tremendous efforts were made post war to effect repairs and reopen. “The Hippodrome Bars” dispensing meanwhile from amongst the rubble. Compulsory purchase was the order of the day however and the closure there came in August 1950. Perhaps Fremlin at the finish but for many years an outlet of George Beer and Rigden. Sad to say in 1990 nothing to compare – if ever that was possible has materialised.

Royal Hotel.
Clarence Place (King’s Head Street and Crane Street)
Often referred to as the “Royal (Pier) Hotel” but more often still the prefix “Royal” missing. With the “Pier Inn” close by that made research difficult. I stand to be corrected but suggest it was on site in 1844. It was fully licensed and latterly belonged to Russell’s Gravesend Brewery. It offered fifty bedrooms was often described as a family and commercial hotel and it was used for free mason meetings before the Masonic Hall became theirs in the last century, because for years three hotels and two inns stood as neighbours in this short street. This particular business survived to 1916 when it was closed under the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910. Agreed compensation was £490.10s. It was subsequently used as flats up to September 1950 when it was taken down. Another “Royal Hotel” had its place in Snargate Street but seemed to end with the death of the proprietor Mariee about 1863. It then continued as a coach office.

Royal Mail Hotel.
Strond Street (Strand)
A free house standing two doors from the “Ship” and well established in 1840. Noel de Fleury spent his life’s savings on the hotel in 1931, the end product boasting electric light and hot and cold water. Two years later he was broke. And not only he. Two other hotels and four pubs in the street had closed in the past four years.
The Chief Constable thought it was surplus to requirements in 1934. “The Green Dragon” stood twenty yards away and sixteen other licensed premises were within four hundred yards. The East Kent Compensation Authority at Canterbury confirmed the closure in June 1934.

Royal Mortar.
12 Military Road.
This could be the house that Flint bought in 1881for £470. That year it had ten bedrooms. My searches revealed little I regret. It was taken over by Fremlin at some time but in world war two had closed by 1942. Post war it must have been possessed by Dover Corporation and it would have been demolished on their instructions to make room for Council flats. Many old soldiers will recall the long climb up the North Military Road to the barracks. Still possible, but from January 1972 it no longer connected Worthington Street.

Royal Oak Inn and Commercial Hotel.
Cannon Street.
I doubt if an oak stood on this site for Charles to hide in but its origin said to be in the time of the Stuarts. Alterations in January 1980 disclosed an old fourteenth century doorway that suggested a priest’s residence associated with the church opposite.
Its rooms were used for meetings and concerts as well as trade and coaches and vans used its extensive yard, with livery stables. The populace of the surrounding villages congregated here and coaches from Eythorne and Nonington ran every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, returning the same day. Two operators ran coaches from Whitfield both on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, making the round trip. Coaches from Folkestone arrived every day except Wednesday and Sunday, returning the same day. Coaches for Deal left the inn every day and the London coaches left daily at four a.m. and six p.m. stopping at Canterbury, Sittingbourne, Rochester and Dartford. We know of its presence in 1805, but its demise like so many others, was the result of road widening. That had already started in 1858 when the frontages between New Street and the inn had been set back. The remaining properties on that site were removed in 1893. On completion of that widening the “Metropole Hotel” arrived, that building being commenced in 1895. Compensation and purchase price for the inn, paid by Dover Corporation for the inn itself, its store and yard, equalled £8,935. 2s. 6d. A “Royal Oak Tap” was present from 1841 to 1847 but I know not what its associations was, if at all, with the other houses of like name.

Royal Oak.
36 Lower Road River.
A beerhouse for many years but fully licensed by Shepherd Neame today. The full licence was applied for in 1949, and the following year, the full licence of “The Hotel de Paris” was transferred here. The old ‘beer and wine on’ were then surrendered. It had closed on 11th October 1940 but must have reopened because I note that the wine licence was granted in 1944.
The flint walls give the impression of age and the door, perhaps still but certainly up to 1983 carried the message ‘Taproom’. I belong to that group of people who appreciate horse brasses, polished furniture and a parrot in the corner. That was the picture that year.
It was disappointing to me when I could only trace to 1907. Others think it is older but I have seen no evidence so keep an open mind. 1983 saw it closed for alterations, the cottage next door being incorporated.

Royal Oak.
56 Oxenden Street.
Already active in 1859 but ending in 1902 when Newton Chapman surrendered this so that another might open in Goshen Road, named appropriately “King Edward V11”. All sides being equal the licence went to Dover Corporation that year, which promptly sold it back to the brewer George Beer and Company for £1,000. Please note that John Epps was said to keep one with this sign in Middle Street in 1826.

Royal Standard.
6 London Road.
The first lease here commenced in 1803 and that century it was usually described as a pub come lodging house, although towards the end of the century, it was alluded to as ‘the tramps lodging house’. The name “Royal Standard” can be identified with the premises from 1826. The Kingsford brothers purchased it in 1881 for £450 but by 1893 it was retailing for George Beer. It stood two doors from the “Hand and Sceptre” and opened at five a.m. from 1876. The first lease of ninety-nine years expired in 1902 and the site was then cleared and the present property erected. There was a subtle difference then. The licence was only transferred with the proviso that the premises would never again be used as a lodging house. September 1960 saw the closure.
Royal William.
Bulwark Hill.
Its presence was shown when an inquest was held there in 1840. An unfortunate railway worker had met his death by accident. Another with the sign was reported on Bulwark Hill in 1832. (Willett).

Sailor’s Arms.
New Street.
I would have liked to see this sign. A beer house of 1848-58 on the opposite side to the “Prince of Orange”.

Sailor’s Return.
Commercial Quay.
A beer house of 1850 – but I never saw it mentioned again. I can certainly visualise the maiden’s welcome lantern in the window.

Salutation.
5 Biggin Street.
The original was said to exist with the nearby monastery in the twelfth century. One writer has suggested that the two were connected with a tunnel or passageway. The monastery would have been much closer then than the few remaining portions of today so I find that suggestion easy to go along with. Its name before the Reformation was probably “Annunciation” or possibly “Angelus” if it was present then. The sign would have changed when the Priory met its demise with perhaps just the lily remaining. When it closed on 5th August 1963 others estimated it to be some three hundred years old. I can only say here that J. Bowes kept it in 1791 and a Mr Bowes (or Bove) is known to have died there in 1794. I do recall that it was necessary to step down into the public bar so it was easy to fall into as it were.
It was removed in 1963 when it became necessary to widen the pavement. Another of the same name was built on a corner some sixty feet from the first site. It opened on 4th September 1964. The new black and white sign, depicting two figures was uninspiring and suggested little to the average person. The structure itself could hardly have looked less like a pub from the outside. Needless to say, it fought a losing battle for nineteen years and closed eventually on 6th December 1983. It was a Whitbread outlet. Following alterations Pizza Hut (UK) utilised as a licensed restaurant but their stay was briefer still, lasting only seven months before giving way to a building society.

Saracen’s Head Inn.
Biggin Street.
It was said to be there on the corner with New Street in 1613. It would be more accurate to say the forerunner of New Street. The earliest licensee known is Henry Marsh in 1792. Phineas Constable a twenty one year old milkman died in 1842. Like all of us his heart must have stopped beating. The inquest at these premises decided he must have died by a visitation from god. That seems to have been a fairly common and convenient summing up at that time. It was converted into a coffee tavern in 1880 and was then referred to as a temperance hotel. Cheap buns and tea were offered workman to keep them out of the pubs. In 1893 Biggin Street at that point was eighteen feet wide, which, meant that this house and its neighbours had to be removed to widen the thoroughfare.

Scarborough Castle.
Hatton in 1792.

Sceptre.
Beach Street & Great Street
Very likely on a corner or perhaps having entrances from two streets. I believe one street was a continuation of the other so perhaps even rebuilt some time. In 1851 the address was Seven Star Street and the dust from the new railway must have settled by then. It came into possession of the town in 1914 when the licence was allowed to lapse. That meant that six pubs vanished that year. Information was withheld from the electorate whilst those negotiations proceed so the comprehensive figure of £5,690 released later but representing the whole tells us little. Concerning this particular sale a further figure of £80. 10s compensation was agreed but was then altered to £100.

Scotch House.
Limekiln Street.
I often heard mention of this but long searches revealed nothing. A coinage token did exist in 1658 bearing the initials IAB and depicting a unicorn and the words “Skoch Armes”. Like the rampant lion of today, the unicorn would have been significant to Scotland and James 1st.

Senior Inn.
Richard Elham 1545.

Seven Stars Inn.
37 Seven Star Street and 9 Beach Street.
Part of the street vanished when the railway arrived in 1843 and more disappeared in 1910. The properties were cleared again by February 1936 in readiness for the building of Seven Star Street flats and they in their turn had gone by the opening of 1976. But the inn…
Evans officiated in 1805 and I note that by 1823 it was addressed Fisherman’s Row. It became the “Admiral” in 1875. Its earlier days had seen the gathering of the local politicians for their meetings and as I write that I would have thought it applied to all pubs.

Shah of Persia.
162 Snargate Street.
Formerly the “Army and Navy”, circumstances brought about the change in June 1873 when the Shah of Persia landed here on the eighteenth to witness a naval review. That merited the change of name. It was an outlet of Kingsford. Southey in 1873 seems to have applied for this licence and also the “Albion”. He finally opted for the latter, which was just as well. By 1877 the “Shah” was in difficulties because of its own improper conduct and ten years later the same thing resulted in the pub being closed for good.

Shakespeare Hotel.
10 Bench Street.
George Square once stood at the top of Snargate Street and on the West side of the Square stood the “George Tavern”. Presuming that to be the same as the “George Inn” which was there in 1637 – being something of an international trading centre – would tie up many loose ends. Token coinage a little later carried the inscription “George Inn 1EC 1652”. That house is acknowledged to be the one, which later came to be “The Vine”, active around 1757 but later becoming the “Shakespeare Inn”.
Robert Garrett, mayor of Dover in 1908, 1614 and 1621 kept the “George Tavern” and John Garrett mayor of Dover in 1850 and 1851 was also an innkeeper but I was never able to connect him with a house. In 1669, Thomas White looks to be the host.
The thoroughfare in front of the pub was eighteen feet wide in 1836 and beneath it a crypt or cavern was discovered after a tower above ground had been removed. Old concrete foundations were found in the cellars of the hotel and much heavy masonry still lies beneath the road today. The Flemish tiles, which ornamented the front, were all excavated from the site itself. Elvey kept it in 1823 being followed by Josiah Hollyer. Lukey was given permission to draw in 1853 and he is also known to have used the crypt for bottling purposes before continuing that process from nearby premises after 1853. He rated himself so highly as a fly driver that he issued a challenge to other drivers nationwide.
It was registered as a commercial hotel by 1882 and its size was increased in November 1898 when four cottages in Chapel Lane were annexed. The extra space was utilised to provide a taproom amongst other things. Further alterations in 1924 brought to light some twelfth century ruins thought to belong to St. Nicholas Church, which was considered to have once stood at the juncture of Snargate Street and Bench Street. Indeed still being reported present in 1486. The stables prior to 1914 were in Townwall Street. 1922 saw the premises divided into a bar, restaurant and flats. People desiring a drink with their meal then had to persuade the waiter to go along the pavement to the bar next door. A communicating door later eliminated that problem.
Shakespeare Buildings, Crypt Restaurant and “Shakespeare Bars” with adjoining premises, amusement arcade eight self contained flats and a dance studio were sold to John Lukey in 1951. Shortly afterwards the amusement arcade became the lounge and restaurant with cocktail bar. The wooden floor of the dining room was previously used in the skating rink of the Granville Gardens. This was a free house and in 1964 its name changed to “Crypt Tavern”, the new owners were Berni Inns.

Shakespeare Inn.
Elizabeth Street.
The first amenity in Hawkesbury Street received a new liquor licence in 1845. George Toms held the licence by 1859. He was a local mariner who had been born at a house which was later replaced by the “Queen’s Head”. He retired from that profession and kept this house up to 1877 when he transferred the licence to newly erected premises in Forty Foot Road. (Elizabeth Street). Despite opposition mostly from the trade itself he successfully opened the new outlet, which contained two bars and seventeen rooms. It opened at 3.30 a.m. but at 5 a.m. after 1900.
Before leaving, Toms who died in August 1900 aged 76 it may be of interest to say that he was a great friend of Captain Matthew Webb the channel swimmer. He was his pilot on 24th August 1875 when he swam to France. When the Chief Constable objected to this renewal in 1940 some interesting moves took place. It was on a lease of 21 years, which had started on 5th July 1934. Either side could only terminate it at seven-year intervals. The licence was refused on 7th June and the house was referred to the Compensation Authority. The registered owners took advantage of their option and gave notice to terminate on 6th July 1941. Compensation meanwhile of £1,500 had been awarded and the owner and the lessees held differing views on who it belonged to. The Court ruled that the owners receive £303. 10s. and the leaseholders £1,196. 10s. This outlet of George Beer and Rigden was destroyed during a bombing attack on 2nd October 1941.

Sheer Hulk.
Commercial Quay.
There has to be a reason for such a name. A prison ship, repair ship? I never chased that one. Bourner kept it in 1854 before which he had kept another pub in Ladywell.

Ship Hotel.
Custom House Quay.
A “Ship” was listed in the census of 1545. Six beds and stabling were shown but no address was given. Also shown was the “Ship Victualling House” with four beds and that was Biggin Street. It is recorded that Henry Rouse inn keeper of the “Ship” died on 28th August 1697 and Samuel Foote, actor died at a “Ship Inn” in 1777.
This hotel was active in 1799 with Worthington the host. History has it that Wellesley was carried shoulder high to this amenity when he returned from the Low Countries following Waterloo in 1815. Worthington’s Hotel and “Ship Inn” stood with its front facing the harbour; the Granville Dock was not so named before 1871 with a rear entrance in Strond Street. That would be in 1838. From 1805 to 1823 it was “Wrights Hotel” and “Ship Inn”. Birmingham took over about 1844 staying to 1865 and then becoming the owner of the “Lord Warden Hotel”.
By all accounts a busy staging post this one. In 1823 mail coaches left Dover every evening at eight and proceeded to the “Angel Inn”, St. Clements London another leaving that place at the same time every evening for Dover. Everyday also at six and ten in the forenoon and six in the evening coaches ran to the Atlas Office 8 Piccadilly to the “Golden Cross” at Charing Cross and the “White Horse” at Fetter Lane. By reciprocation coaches returned from those places every morning and evening.
Much of this establishment seems to disappear when a corn store was erected hereabouts by Bradley brothers in April 1878. The hotel was sold later in January 1899 for £1,500. Part was then used as the Railway Marine Offices up to 1914 when the new railway terminus opened at the South pier. I should have said earlier that they renewed the licence as early as 1868. It may not have been demolished before 1947 or even the early fifties. The annexe at one time was Admiral House, the Dover Naval Headquarters and that may have survived to the 1960’s.
Another house in Strond Street used this sign from 1872.
Ship.
12 Strond Street.
Formerly the “Shipwright’s Arms” this applied from 1872. An outlet of George Beer, which passed to Flint in 1908. Four a.m. opening was allowed from 1872 but on weekdays only. It had closed by 1907 but reopened and then continued to 1914, closing on 31st December that year. Flint received compensation of £314 and the freeholder Dover Harbour Board £10. The property became a private dwelling.

Shipwright’s Arms.
Strond Street.
Another with this sign traded from Seven Star Street and certainly in 1805 Simmonds was associated with it. The main attraction after the beer was the cock fighting. The business had moved to Strond Street by 1845 but the South Eastern and Chatham Railway needed that site in 1859 so it moved along the street to number 47. That contradicts the number I have entered for the “Ship” but perhaps because of that upheaval the numbers altered. A new licence was issued to Simms in 1857 and he hosted the third house, which was then the neighbour of the “Packet Boat Inn”. Another Simms officiated in 1872 when it was named “the Ship”.

Signe of Jesus.
A victualling House of 1545.

Silver Lion.
Middle Row.
In a cul-de-sac off Council House Street it could be approached by the narrow passage next to the “Rose and Crown” in Clarence Place. Present in 1826 (John Nichols) and in 1851 it was described as a lodging house also. When sold in 1881 it was described as a freehold pub being used as a private dwelling and shop. Wilkins purchased on that occasion and must have reopened as a pub because the Superintendent of Police who stated that it had not been used for several years opposed the following year the renewal. Wilkins argued that he had spent a great deal of money on renovation and the opposition melted. Later though the property proved to be an obstacle when the new viaduct was constructed. Dover Corporation even contemplated buying St. James Church and altering the axis of the bridge that being less expensive.
The secrecy of the dealings at that time leaves us guessing but it can be said that they paid £6,800 in 1914 for three licensed houses in Beach Street and Middle Row. It can be said that this house was in their possession that year.
When it was referred that year the town were recompensed with £886, Mrs Louise McKeen the former Mrs Curling received £123. It would seem to be the only building left in the Row but the war brought a reprieve. It was not authorised for demolition before March 1922. I note that in 1768 the notorious highwayman James Hellick was apprehended at a “Silver Lion”.

Sir Colin Campbell.
Round Tower Street.
John Hedgecock 1858.
Sir Garnet Wolseley.
75 Snargate Street.
A request was made in 1875 for the licence of the “Prince of Hesse” at 113 Snargate Street to be transferred here. The motive is not apparent. Perhaps a reopening was necessary or maybe it was a fuller licence. It met with rebuff anyway but the establishment was certainly operational in 1878. Wolseley commanded the troops in Egypt at the time and he landed at Dover in November 1882 on his return from the Ashanti War in 1874. This 61-year lease had commenced in April 1871. It stood opposite the Grand Shaft stairway and Flint purchased from Satchell for £500 in 1881. Lane must have officiated when the sign changed to “Lord Wolseley” between 1879 and 1882. It was short lived. It soon changed again to “Lord Roberts”.

Sir John Falstaff.
Ladywell.
The fourteen-foot road was widened to twenty feet in 1867 and four cottages then stood thereabouts. By 1869 Thomas Christie Royce had converted two of them into a pub. Edward Hubbard hosted for four years then sold to the East Kent Brewery at that time a subsidiary of the Dane John brewery Canterbury. The doors opened at five a.m. to welcome the coffee drinkers from 1876 and continued that practise after 1900.
1893 saw the road widened again which meant its removal but following the road improvements the present house was erected in 1903. Ash and Company received from Dover Corporation £1,650 in 1902 which must represent the purchase price or compensation. Efforts made to declare the pub redundant in 1934 were not successful. The local Council were looking for premises to house the police at that time so fingers pointed in their direction but if they were interested and it would hardly have been convenient right next door to their fighting appliances.
Permission was given for it to close for the duration of the war in October 1940. Possibly it did. I know not. Certainly open again in 1948. A Whitbread house.

Sir Sidney Smith.
East Cliff.
Captain John Smith of the Third guards regiment built his abode at East Cliff in 1791. He used chalk blocks purloined and fashioned from the cliffs and surmounted them with upturned boats to provide a roof. Perhaps the only building on the foreshore at that time. Other buildings appeared after 1817. Admiral Sir Sidney Smith on his demise there on 23rd February 1804. Sir Sidney at the time busy with the Channel Fleet destroying invasion barges in the French ports. This pub that honoured his name can be traced to 1842 when an inquest was held on the body of John Nash a drowned coast guard. Duncan officiated in 1856 but the licence was surrendered finally by Miss Emery in 1882.

Skylark.
Beach Street.
This functioned before 1846 but disappeared after 1872.

Sportsman Inn.
16 Charlton Green.
A life-size effigy of a sportsman dominated the fore court and a bowling green once occupied the rear. It was rebuilt in 1868. I have heard of a “Sportsman’s Gun” but have found no evidence. Although it was leased to Satchell in 1874 it seems to have remained inactive because when the licence was renewed in 1881 it stated that it had been closed for seven years. Barker purchased that year. The lot comprising five fully licensed outlets, four beer houses and the “Spotted Cow” on Durham Hill. There is no further evidence of it being closed before 1943. A compulsory purchase order was made by Dover Corporation in December 1945 for 638 square yards of land thereabouts with the war damaged building part thereof formerly known as “The Sportsman Inn”. That order was confined in September 1946 at which time Charlton Green was being, or had been taken down. The pub and two houses in Palmerston Place survived that initial onslaught but it was only a postponement. Maison Dieu Road, between the “Grapes” and Frith Road was widened in 1952 and that would have been the effigy mentioned earlier, disappeared. It had been moved nearer the road post war and was a significant landmark up to that time. Another with this name was reported in Priory Place from 1847-1851.

Sportsman.
238 London Road.
This was the former “Fountain” which Michael Phillips declared a free house and reopened under this sign on 18th May 1991.

Spotted Cow.
Durham Place.
One of Satchell’s which passed to Barker of Maidstone in 1881. This area was developed between 1830 and 1850. The pub itself retailing by 1852. The beer licence was refused in 1877, as also was an application for a spirit licence the following year. It met with refusal again in 1879 and 1880. In 1887 it was described as being empty for some time and a reopening was refused because of several convictions for selling on Sundays. The earlier refusals of 1879 and 1880 I should point out were due to the nature of the premises themselves. The size and valuation of the property could not satisfy the licensing laws of the time.

Spread Eagle Inn.
An inn of 1545, another was part of Biggin Street prior to 1854.

Standard.
18 Commercial Quay.
It faced the dockside and was there before 1870. It closed on 31st December 1934 the licence being allowed to lapse. The lessee was compensated with £658. 15s, the licensee with £58. 5s. and the freeholder, Dover Harbour Board £20.
It had been closed previously in 1876 when it was inhabited with prostitutes. After the final closure it became a private dwelling.

St. Andrew’s Cross.
Biggin Street.
Victualling House 1545.

Star.
20 -22 Church Street.
It was number 13 in the last century but the site is the same. There was a street widening in the past but the necessary ground was purloined from the churchyard on the opposite side. Mrs Fry present in 1841 and at that time it was always described as an inn. The famous Thomas Langley kept it from 1883 until his death in 1904. He was known as his majesty’s heaviest subject. When he died aged 56, his weight was 46 stone, his waist 83 inches, his chest 86 inches and his height was 6 feet 3 ¼ inches. He always used the guards van on the trains because his width could not negotiate a carriage door. George Beer and Rigden were threatened with redundancy here in 1933 but managed to evade the axe. It closed during world war two on 4th October 1940 and did not reopen. The demolition of that side of the street commenced in March 1950 and this was taken down in October 1951 under a compulsory purchase order. For the “Star Inn” and 24 Church Street Dover Corporation authorised a payment of £2,618 in May 1952. Another with this title once traded from Round Tower Street.

Star.
Trevanion Street.
Retailing in 1826 and later belonging to George Beer and Company. Possibly on a corner, the address in the last century was often Woolcombers Street. The Chief Constable opposed the renewal in 1907. He thought the design of the building was not compatible with its use. Sadly also it had changed hands six times in six years. I hasten to point out in view of that there had never been a conviction.
Nine houses were referred that year but a lack of ready in the moneybox meant that only five were closed and compensated. I never found the outcome of those proceedings but I think there is little doubt the bells tolled for this one. If the property survived to 1945 it would have disappeared then.

Star and Garter.
8 and formerly 13 Trevanion Street.
This was outlet of Gillow that was revealed to me only once. It had previously been the “Waterman’s Arms” but between times had been utilised as a private dwelling before opening under this sign. That would have been before 1868. Gillow also owned 49 Clarendon Place and in 1881 would have liked to transfer this licence there. He was prevented from doing so. By 1940 it retailed for Fremlin when I presume it would have closed. Permission to remedy war damage was refused in 1947 and if the house were still standing in October 1958 it would have disappeared then. That year the demolition of all remaining buildings in the area was authorised. The task was performed about May 1960 but Trevanion House itself survived for probably another six years.

Steamboat.
5 Bulwark Street.
At an auction of 1859 a dwelling known as “The Steamboat” with a lease of 61 years from April 1834 was offered with a sub-lease of 7 years from 1855. At one time the title had changed from “Steamboat” to the “Young Prince of Wales”. Certainly the “Steamboat” from 1823 to 1839.

Strides.
30 Coombe Valley Road.
Once the “Primrose Hall” which closed in 1983. Following alterations it reopened under this sign on 9th September 1983. The sign depicted four or five athletes, either racing each other or running across country. It would have offered little inspiration to the average person I would think. The public bar seemed to be in permanent semi darkness whatever time of day, the loud music provided, acceptable to a certain element of society today probably sufficed to drive a like number of the opposite camp away. A new image pub if you like. It was a time when the brewer tried to cater for all tastes. As an experiment this must have proved an expensive failure. By 1985 the Fremlin sign was once more the “Primrose”.
Sun.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of 1545 and later there is evidence of a “Sun” in Woolcombers Street or St. James Street.
Sun.
Mount Pleasant.
Matthew White died in his sleep at this pub in 1841, which necessitated an inquest. That was the only time I saw mention of it although in 1853 Wilson was said to keep one with this name in Bowling Green Lane.

Sussex Arms.
32 Townwall Street.
This shared the corner with Wall Passage, (once Lamb’s Lane) and did so prior to 1867. It had previously been the “Effingham Arms” and it follows that change was sometime after 1862. A Fremlin outlet it was an early casualty of world war two. Heavily damaged on 11th September when twenty-six bombs and shells landed in the vicinity its complete destruction was attributed to another bomb on 28th February 1941. A compulsory purchase order for the former site of the pub was made in1954 and confirmed in May 1955. A converted value payment of £4,750 was paid by Dover Corporation for the ground in 1957.

Swan Victualling House.
St. James Street.
Rowland Edridge in 1545.

Swan Hotel.
26 Strond Street.
The number will vary over time in keeping with the changes. Before 1932 it was number twenty. Up to 1915 it also had a rear entrance from Commercial Quay. In 1890 the owners would have liked to annexe their neighbours but were not allowed to do so. Leney and later Fremlin both utilised this one. Alteration and renovations meant a temporary closure in 1908. A little past history might seem appropriate at this point. Strond Street was formed early in the seventeenth century but Custom House Quay not before 1670. I mention that because a severe storm struck the town at seven a.m. one morning in November 1662. It coincided with a high tide and the account mentions Master Elliott at the “Swan Inn” a building three storeys high having all the floors flooded. The stable walls fell in and the horses tethered to the manger were lost. The wind was said to be North Westerly. Other reports spoke of the whole valley being flooded with dead sheep floating in the water. At the hotel we are now discussing Martin served in 1792. With the exception of number 14, which was reckoned to be one of the oldest properties in the town this street vanished in 1951. The road itself was closed to the public thereafter from July that year. Number 14 went shortly afterwards.

Tap Room.
Limekiln Street.
Perhaps an appurtenance of larger premises, a “City Tap” was also associated with the street. Perkins kept a beer house about here in 1869 but we are no longer able to ask him.

Tailor’s Shears.
Biggin Street.
Another victualling house of 1545. Nobody could have gone thirsty in this short street.
Terminus.
Lord Warden Square.
The original was just round the corner in Bench Street. Number four in fact and well establishment by 1847. It enjoyed early opening from 1872. At first four and then three thirty a.m. from 1874. That would have been on weekdays only.
With the street rebuilt about 1915 plans were approved for a new replacement. Gardner agreed to hand over the old premises when the town provided him with a suitable site to rebuild. The evidence as it were being before our very eyes, we know that those things happened. A different sign adorned it from April 1962 when it became “The Golden Arrow”.
Three Brothers.

Another with this sign was reported to have changed its title in 1814 to the “Jolly Sailor”. William Mellane kept a “Three Brothers” at the South Pier in 1823 and Chapman kept “The Brothers” in 1805. The absence of addresses leaves us much in the dark.
Three Colts.
Charlton.
Dennis in 1843 and he also kept a beer house in Tower Hamlets in 1869.

Three Compasses.
20 Finnis Hill (Upper Walton Lane)
An alehouse which was refused a licence renewal in 1835 but which was certainly active again under Challis by 1847. In August 1853 a devastating fire swept through the oil mills in Limekiln Street. The pub occupied part of the mill grounds but was not within the walls. It was completely gutted by fire fortunately without loss of life. All the surrounding property had to be quickly evacuated and some buildings demolished to prevent further spread. The population joined in the fight and many won their spurs that night. Many buildings including the “Newcastle Arms” were only saved by being continuously hose throughout. It was Walker’s loss but after being rebuilt served Satchell and later Barker. When declared redundant in 1906 it came under the auspices of the Burton Brewery Company of Herne Bay. Compensation was agreed sometime after November that year. The oil mills were replaced by what came to be termed the Commercial Buildings and much of that was also destroyed by fire in May 1965.

Three Cups.
9 Crabble Hill (Turnpike Road)
This was built about 1840, the number at one time being 59. That was the result of properties lower down disappearing during a road widening in 1938. It was a Leney house that passed to Fremlin then Whitbread. At a sale on 30th September 1886 it changed hands at £960. It closed in September 1940 for the duration but Edith Rogers stepped into the breach and it reopened almost immediately. Customers had the choice of four bars in the past but they had already been reduced to two by 1978 and in keeping with the trend, Nick Wheeler produced plans that year to form one large room.
Three Doves.
A coinage token of the seventeenth century informed that John Parker was the host of the “Three Doves” at the peere.

Three Herrings.
Fisherman’s Row.
Ann Johnson in 1792 but not seen again after 1839.

Three King’s.
Union Street. (Snargate over the Water)
The original was present in 1792 but a new house was being constructed in 1845. The address was sometimes Wellington Bridge and the thoroughfare as above. Epps moved from the old to the new in 1846. Its neighbour was the “Royal Arms” and its lease was for eighty years. It changed hands in 1859 but I have no details.
Improvements by the Harbour Board in 1871 called for its removal. The “Gothic” nearby had been closed for irregularities since September 1870 and Allen the brewer was fortunate enough to effect a reopening with this licence. Gibbs was also said to trade under this sign. In Beach Street in 1826.

Three Mackerel.
Trevanion Street. (Or Place).
Functional, certainly from 1823 but no sign after 1851.

Three Tuns.
50 Biggin Street.
Hawkins served in 1792 but by 1854 it had developed a reputation for doing the wrong thing. When accusations of receiving stolen property were added to the list the authorities said enough! In the event the renewal was not sought anyway. In spite of everything trade looked good here and a tun is a large cask with capacity for 252 gallons.

Tinkers Close.
5 Harold Street.
Miss Lewis is thought to have served ale from here in 1853.

Tower.
1 West Street and Tower Street.
Hodgson looks like being the first one here in 1866. Flint purchased from Satchell in 1881 for £1,020 and previously Page had retailed from here. It was permitted to open at five a.m. after 1900. Not the easiest of privileges to obtain. Plans for structural alterations were approved in 1951 but I have no details. The name itself was derived from he water tower on Priory Hill above, which once dominated the whole.
This one faded away. Butterworth served in 1965 but how long he staid after that I know not. The property was otherwise disposed in 1974 but I do note that a wine licence was sought in 1982.

Town Arms.
38 Bridge Street.
A victualling house traded from St. James Street in 1545. Another, which closed in 1874, did not provide us with an address. The house now under discussion can be traced to 1882. As an outlet of George beer it stood on the corner with Colebran Street. I emphasise that because the street has been remembered at least once and before 1922 this would be 29. Like the house above this also just faded away. How long Ince stayed after 1963 is not known. Some of the houses in Colebran Street were demolished in January 1952 so that the iron foundry could be enlarged. This house survived that year but it was boarded up and remained empty and derelict for twenty years before being taken down with great speed, in less than twenty-four hours in early December 1988. The small part of the street remaining had received its closing order in July that year preparatory to extensive redevelopment in the area. This property would not have been included in that scheme initially but did become so ultimately. With great alacrity the boundary fence moved over night and the property disappeared. I doubt if anybody regretted this eyesore going.

Tradesman’s Arms.
Strond Street.
The first licence was granted from Broadstairs in 1869 so might well have been the result of an appeal. Efforts to transfer it to the “Orange Tree” at Maxton in 1873 failed. Renewal was not sought after 1874.

Traveller’s Rest.
Folkestone Road.
This beer house was reported in 1840 as being about three miles along the Folkestone Road. I leave to your imagination.

Trinity Pilot.
29 Commercial Quay.
Open in 1867 but in 1895 it was said to have been empty for some time and plans for rebuilding were approved that year. The Bench made conditions though. The “Crusader” had to be surrendered. No doubt those plans reached fruition but I heard nothing of the opening or reopening if there was one. The ever changing numbers on the Quay make searching a nightmare. At different times this was 26, 27 and 29.

Trocadero.
182 Snargate Street.
On the corner with Five Post Lane and assuming this title from 1907. It had been the “Wine Vaults” where Adams had acquired a six-day licence in 1872 with the provision of a wine lounge. They claimed it was the largest and most comfortable wine lounge in the town, with fine oak panelled saloons and wines served from the wood. That lounge, previous to 1908 had artificial lighting but that year a partition was removed which gave the use of a window.
Herbert Clark served from 1919 and in 1927 he managed to obtain also the licence of the “Burlington Bars”. In 1929 he followed that achievement by annexing number 182a Snargate Street. The public bar was then available from the front of the premises and lunches were provided. The six-day licence was still operative to 1954 when the full licence of the “Pavilion Hotel” was transferred. In 1936 it came within the perimeter of the redevelopment area. The onus was then on Dover Corporation to provide an alternative site. The country was at war before that could be progressed and following hostilities when the brewer was negotiating the opening of the “Dover Stage Hotel” he agreed to close here in order to make that possible.
That closure came on 17th May 1957, the licence passing to the “Dover Stage” a week later. Owing to an empty money bob it was September 1959 before the town was able to buy the property and even then, demolition proceeded by stages. I read that it was being taken down in November 1967, that the demolition was complete in July 1968 and that authority was given by the corporation for the remains to be demolished in January 1971. The site together with Five Post Lane now lies below the new York Street.

Trotting Horse.
Queen Street.
Payn in 1792 but not seen after 1826.

True Blue.
Commercial Quay.
Present in 1865 but by 1869 noted for its misconduct. That year a spirit licence was refused and the ale licence was not renewed.

True Briton.
Snargate Street.
Active in 1805 and reported on the corner with Commercial Quay. Probably belonging to Walker 1814 to 1859. When sold by his executors that year they stated that its importance would be enhanced by the erection of the new post office on the opposite side of the street. The 61-year lease had commenced in April 1834.The title may have been associated with the Benefit Society of like name, which was popular in that century. By 1867 or 1870 the authorities had seen enough of this one. The curtain fell.

Turnham Green Tavern.
48 High Street.
This was approximately opposite where Barwick’s Alley once stood. An alehouse of Mrs Harding where a new licence went to Mrs Hickey in 1862. The renewal was not sought in 1878. It did open again two years later but as an “off” licence only. Cornelius Brown had opened several of the closed pubs about that time for that purpose.

Two Brewers.
67 Limekiln Street.
Archcliff Fort Brewery occupied one end of the street and Satchell’s Brewery the other. Which offers a reason for the name or perhaps they had a joint interest. Traceable to 1791, (Coxen) and kept by Fred Cole from 1913. He supplemented his income by pursuing the trade of carpenter and undertaker and used the “Kent Arms” as a workshop after its closure. He also used this one for the same purpose after it closed on 22nd March 1922. Negotiations for its sale had started with Dover Corporation in 1913 but the war delayed any decision. By September 1921 the brewer wanted confirmation one way or the other. Fred Cole had seen enough by 1923 when he ended his own life. The licence renewal was not applied for in 1923 or 1924.

Two Brothers.
Snargate Street.
Open in 1851 but the renewal refused in 1869. Although Dane managed to open later that year the licence was refused again in 1870.

Two Sailors.
No address but appears in police reports of 1878.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Market Street.
Only seen once when kept by Robins in 1854.

Unicorn.
Biggin Street.
A victualling house of 1545 and another was reported in Market Street in 1852.

Union Flag.
Commercial Quay.
A beer house that was run on the same lines as Fagin’s Den at the finish. Norwood kept it in 1853 when young boys and girls were encouraged to steal what they could and return to the house with their spoils. Norwood was barred for two years and the house closed for two years. If it ever did open again it must have been under a different sign.

Union Hotel.

32 Commercial Quay and 1-2 Commercial Quay.
The original tavern was said, “to be near the drawbridge” with its front facing the harbour. The terrace and many of the rooms had a good view of the sea and the castle. That establishment on the corner of Union Street was removed in1878 for new premises to open on the opposite side of the road at numbers 1 and 2.
Both were Leney outlets. The first well-established in 1823 was expected to finish when the Tidal Harbour was enlarged in 1844 but managed to survive that upheaval.
In 1823 coaches ran from the “York”, “Union”, “Castle” and “Antwerp” hotel and from the “Flying Horse Inn” every morning at six and ten and every evening at six to the “White Bear” Piccadilly, “The Old Bell Inn”, Holborn and “Blossoms Inn”, Lawrence Lane Cheapside London. Later in 1836 Union Safety Coaches ran to London from the “Union” and “Gun” hotels and the “Packet Boat Inn”.
Five a.m. opening was permitted from 1881 and the concession continued after 1900.
The new licence granted to Galanti in 1854 puzzles me. It was in respect of the United Services Club the late “Union Hotel”. By 1856 however John Minet Laurie, by his then name of Fector was on duty at the “Union Hotel Tap”. That stood next door to the “Barley Mow” and it prospered up to 1929 when it was removed with the other Quay properties. Alfred Leney was compensated with £1,694 and £400 went to the licensee Pearce. He moved to manage the “Pavilion Tavern.

United Stores.
Snargate Street.
A neighbour of the “Grand Shaft Inn” in 1868.

Upholsterer’s Arms.
3 Folkestone Road.
Hart took the business from Percival in 1878 and changed the title to “Griffin”.

Victoria.
Tower Street.
A beer house of 1871 and it provided an example of punishments being melted out to careless publicans at that time. Case, in July 1874 was caught supplying liquor to two soldiers at four p.m. one Sunday. He was fined two pounds and costs of fourteen days hard labour with licence endorsed. I saw no mention of it after 1875. A “Victoria” pub was reported in Buckland in 1862 and there is always the possibility the prefix “Queen” has been omitted in both cases.

Victoria Hotel.
38 Castle Street.
On the corner with Russell Street in 1838. It was a commercial hotel supplied by Russell’s Gravesend Brewery. The haunt for many years of the Dover Bicycle Club.
Financial difficulty resulted in the closure on 31st December 1914. The Gravesend Brewery Company received compensation of £100 and the trustees for the debenture holders £125. 10s.

Victory.
120 Snargate Street.
Formerly the “Old Post Office” and the “Prince Arthur” this sign was displayed by Champion in 1884. Between 1895 and 1903 it changed again to “Ordnance”.

Vine.
Mrs J. Smith 1720. (See “Shakespeare Hotel”).

Volunteer.
52 London Road.
It had been “The Britannia” but adopted this sign between 1874 and 1878. It was a fully licensed outlet of Flint where the Superintendent of Police objected to the renewal in 1907. The “Milestone” was 22 yards away, the “Rose and Crown” 35 yards, the “Crown” 154 yards and the “Plough” 170. The stabling in the rear was entered from a side alley. It continued provisionally while the Compensation people considered and I never found the outcome of those considerations. The closure would have been then or the following year. By 1910 it flourished as a fried fish shop.

Walmer Castle.
19 Market Square.
An outlet of Leney which passed to Fremlin and not always showing this number. They were redesignated when Dolphin House was built in 1954. The original traded in 1729 but it had previously been known as the “Hare and Hounds” and the “Dolphin”. Enlarged also at some time because a next-door stable afterwards used as a soup kitchen and carpenter’s shop was incorporated with this establishment.
It sold for £430 in 1809 and for £750 in 1851. The front was completely renewed in 1822. I like the sound of John Ray’s advertisement in 1861 when he informed the public that hot joints were served daily from twelve until two.
Four a.m. opening was allowed from 1875, (perhaps a year sooner), and it held a special distinction in 1914 when all licensed premises and clubs with the exception of the “Walmer Castle” the “Duchess of Kent” and the buffets of the town and harbour stations had to close at nine p.m. Oddly enough those same two pubs which stood together to merge in 1962. The structural alterations necessary to make that possible defeated the best of builders and virtual demolition and rebuilding of the whole ensued. It reopened as the “Elephant and Hind in October 1964 as an outlet of Fremlin and Mackeson.

Warrior.
135 Snargate Street.
Provided this is the right number it must be on the site later occupied by the
“Invicta”. As the licensees do not confirm that you are invited to join in my commiseration. The “Warrior” can be traced to 1872 with Barron in charge but at the other end of the scale, James Altham is there in 1895. Other factors suggest that Paramour kept the “Invicta” in 1887.

Waterloo Arms.
High Street.
My searches revealed this in 1851 and 1853.

Waterman’s Arms.
8 and formerly 13 Trevanion Street.
Serving liquor in 1847 but then becoming a private dwelling and reopening as a pub again some time prior to 1868. Its sign the second time round was “The Star and Garter”.
Welcome all Nations.
Commercial Quay.
Active in 1851 but by 1853 it was in trouble for permitting notoriously bad characters to assemble in its rooms. Hawkins was summoned to attend Court in January that year for keeping a disorderly house but he must have preferred to view matters from afar because he vanished and was not seen again.
The pub was closed.

Wellesley.
27 Commercial Quay.
A fully licensed house of Phillips, West Malling and Dover. At the close it had the “Golden Anchor” as its neighbour, which I suspect I have entered as number 30. This particular row of properties was a nightmare. This was 25 in 1882 and 1892. 28 in 1859 and number 27 I probably picked up in 1906.
In 1897, Dawes would have liked to transfer this licence to 1 Longfield Road but he was not allowed to do so. An ‘off ’ licence also was denied at that time. The pub at that time retailed 143 barrels per annum.
1906 saw it declared redundant. The licence had changed hands sixteen times in twenty years and compensation was paid in October that year. £365 went to Phillips and £20 to the keeper. I am just as puzzled as you are to know why Dawes tampered with a house of Phillips. My notes do not help.

Wellington.
10 Snargate Street.
Described at different times as a tavern, a commercial hotel and an inn, it stood on the corner with Wellington Passage and Culmer served for twenty years up to 1860. (Prebble in 1826). The police admitted it was always a well-kept house and omnibuses ran to meet every train. Coaches left here for Deal, Ramsgate, Margate and Canterbury. When sold in 1859 it realised £950. The following year it was taken down.

Wellington Hotel.
41 Biggin Street.
I have read that this was the first built when Biggin Gate was removed in 1762.
I believe John Lyon says 1752. Whatever, other writers opine that other inns stood here previous to this one. I am personally drawn to the account that suggests a large house, occupied by a manufacture that had his wool factory in the rear, that being reached by a side alley. Part of those premises were then said to become the “Wellington Hotel”. My own searches went to 1863 when your host was Matthew Sharp. It was an outlet of Evenden and Leney, later passing to Fremlin. Being an honest man I have to inform that I did not see this on maps of 1871 and further to that, Mr Rubies wine and spirit licence for 41 and 42 Biggin Street was not renewed in 1877. One certainty is the 14-year lease granted to Leney on 6th April 1892.
Leaving all the confusion behind, let us move to June 1949, the year that war damage was made good for £510. Negotiations for the sale of this began in May 1970 but it was 21st July 1971 before the pub closed. It was demolished in September the same year so that the Tesco store could expand but later in 1989 that property was subdivided to provide two other retail premises.

Westbury.
1 Westbury Road.
Quite a lot of spadework had to be done before the opening was achieved here. Dover Brewery Company wanted a licence in 1885 for a house that they intended building in Clarendon Street. They offered to surrender the “William and Albert” but were not entertained. George Beer and Company tried in 1892 for a house, which they would have built at the top of Clarendon Street. They not only offered to surrender the “Rose” in Charlton Green, but also the ground on which it stood, the Council being anxious to widen the road at that point. A hesitant Bench thought on that occasion it would be too close to Belgrave School. Edward Dawes next entered the scene in 1897 with plans for an ‘off’ licence at 1 Longfield Road. He was quite prepared to sacrifice the “Wellesley” but he was also shown the door. 1898 saw a third attempt by George Beer. His proposed site was now on the corner of Westbury and Belgrave Road and he was prepared to invest £2,000 on the new building. Agreement was reached all round and the pub opened buy August 1900. The licence of the “Rose” was allowed to lapse in 1898. Passing through the years to Fremlin and still setting them up today. Perhaps sharing with Whitbread. It is a time of many changes.

Wheatsheaf.
2 Ladywell Place.
An outlet of Kingsford that in its time had also obliged George Beer and Rigden. It stood on the corner part facing Ladywell. It did not often make the headlines but we do know of its presence in 1877. The whole of Ladywell Place was compulsory purchased by Dover Corporation in 1936. Notices to quit the house had already been issued by September that year and the Ministry of Health confirmed the purchase in February 1938. The price of the Wheatsheaf, including the licence was £4,000. An agreed compensation figure of £2,300 was also mentioned and may have formed part of the larger figure. I do not know.
In an effort to recover some part of the ratepayer’s money, the council resolved to declare the pub redundant and have it referred. The Kent Brewers Association took exception to that and objected to the fund being so abused. Right or wrong the Bench did agree it was surplus to requirements in March 1938. Seven fully licensed houses were within two hundred yards and twenty-one within a four hundred radius. The renewal was refused in June 1938, which then made it eligible for compensation.
The end of the story never came my way. It did go on. Perhaps the figure of £2,300 mentioned earlier was the result. I do not know. Although ready for demolition it must have still stood in February 1939 when a provisional licence covered.
It must have disappeared shortly after that because the police station had opened on the site by September 1940. Just in time to be partially wrecked by a bomb two months later.

Wheelwright’s Arms.
48 Bridge Street.
A new licence was granted to Fryer in 1864. He may not have been the first. The establishment also included numbers one and two Catherine’s Place and those properties date from 1837. The Gurr family were prominent for much of the last century and the number will vary over the years. A street widening developed between 1892 and 1907 and further renumbering would have been necessary in 1915.
This outlet was destroyed by enemy shellfire on 20th March 1944. It had closed for the duration of hostilities on 11th October 1940 but had reopened in 1941.
The post war years produced a compulsory purchase order in December 1945. It was for the former site of the pub with the war damaged building thereon and also for 3 Catherine’s Place that had been used in connection with the pub. That order was confirmed in July 1946. The price paid for the pub and its surrounds was £454. The licence was transferred in March 1948 to another pub with this title in Dryden Road.

Wheelwright’s Arms.
Dryden Road and Chaucer Crescent.
This was an outlet of Bass Charrington as was the third house also. It was erected as a temporary pub only and was under construction in January 1948. The builder’s instructions were to erect so that it could readily be converted in the future into two private dwellings. The licence from the demolished premises in Bridge Street was transferred on 1st March 1948. I suspect the pub had already opened in February.
That temporary licence ended on 1st March 1953 and a permanent one was then transferred from the derelict “Golden Cross” in St. James Street. That licence then went at the appropriate time to the third “Wheelwright’s Arms” which was built on a permanent basis on the corner of Chaucer Crescent opening in June 1956. It passed to Shepherd Neame in February 1991.

White Hart.
Dolphin Lane and Russell Street.
This ended up on the corner of the two streets but when it was first built Russell Street was non-existent. That appeared later in 1838and we know that Baker served drinks here in 1790. Dolphin Lane of course one of our oldest thoroughfares of the town.
A paraffin lamp accidentally knocked over by the mother of the host on 13th August 1891 brought this establishment to an end. The name changed to “The Castle” presumably but not necessarily when the pub reopened with a new interior. This was the sign in 1895. A Whitbread House.

White Horse.
St. James Street.
On the corner with Hubert Passage it had been known earlier as “The City of Edinburgh” the title changing previous to 1792. Perhaps it would be of interest to say here that in 1778-9 the 25th Foot Regiment known as The Edinburgh Regiment were part of the garrison. The early brewers connected with the premises were Iken (or Jeken) and Coleman and they later amalgamated with Edward Rutley.
It was sold together with the “Five Alls” in 1865. Satchell was the owner by 1881 but that year it went to the Kingsford brothers for £870. It was described then as freehold property in the hamlet of Uphill. Later still, it went to George Beer and opened at five a.m. from 1890.
An inquest here in 1826 sought the identity of a body taken from the sea by Sir Sidney Smith’s Caves. The man had slept the previous night at the “Royal Standard” and was identified as Henry Palmer a clerk from East India House.
Other houses in the town displayed this sign. A seventeenth century token once circulated with the inscription Robert Gallant, “White Horse Inn” and a beer house traded from Tower Hamlets 1842-1846. Another was positioned on the south side of the Market Square in 1690 and John Butler kept another addressed simply Buckland from 1847-52. Perhaps of interest alterations to these premises in 1952 brought to light a programme for the Dover Theatre dated 1809 and advertising Harleguin and Mother Goose. In 1895 coaches from St. Margaret’s at Cliffe ran to the inn every day except Sunday. Much renovation has of necessity been carried out over the years but its old world charm and antiquity is still very much in evidence. A Fremlin House.

Further to the foregoing, licensee Charles Willett also made research and concluded from his findings that he ran the oldest pub in the town. Documents in his possession showed that the premises were erected during the reign of Edward 111 in 1365. It was then occupied by the verger of St. James Church, which stood next door on the side of Hubert Passage at the top of the seashore.
With the demise of the monasteries in 1539, the house ended its connection with the church. Its occupants in 1574 were the Ale Taster of Dover and successive post holders still engaged in that profession followed him.
Nicholas Ramsey in 1652, obtained permission to sell cider and ale from the premises described as “Olde at the foot of the hill in the hamlet of Uphill”. In 1635 he had named the premises “City of Edinburgh” using the name board from a wrecked American freighter in the Strait that year. It was a meeting place for the actors and players from the Dover Theatre in the eighteenth century. In 1818 when the house was used frequently for inquests, often concerning bodies recovered from the sea the name changed to “The White Horse”. John Friend sold the house in 1865 together with “The Five Alls”. Satchell, Kingsfords Brewery and John Rigden succeeded Iken and Coleman. He eventually merged with George Beer and they later with Fremlins.

White Lion.
35 Tower Street.
It already traded under this sign in 1875 but the number before 1928 was 19. It served Mackeson and Whitbread in the past but is owned today by Shepherd Neame. In 1982 the bars were improved and general renovation was accomplished.
This was fully licensed by 1915 when redundancy threatened. Its sales averaged five barrels a week which was reckoned pretty good by the trade at that time so it can be said to have been saved by its own record. For many years the name Dawkins was associated with this pub. He had served beer at this bar in 1910 for two old pence a pint and still served, but not at that price, fifty-six years later. He left this world aged ninety in 1966.

Who’d a Thought It.
Last Lane.
Formerly the “American Stores” the name changed in 1865. Not for long. It next became “The Oxford”. There is conflicting evidence as to when. Martin was reported as keeping it in 1870 but Lane is supposed to have kept the “Oxford” in 1867. A long search to clarify that seemed rather pointless because before you could say Jack Robinson it had changed again to “The Criterion”.

Why Not.
Worthington Street (Worthington Lane)
Little is known of the pub itself, the licence of which was allowed to lapse in 1896. Its removal became necessary during a street widening so obviously Dover Corporation would be in the picture. I have no details but if I were asked to suggest a name for a pub, what could be better?

William and Albert.
Seven Star Street
Always a beer house and I would suggest George Beer as the last brewer. Found sometimes as number 7 and sometimes as 14 and found also addressed Oxenden Street. Perhaps a change of site on the cards.
Dover Brewery Company were prepared to surrender this licence in 1885 so they could open another in Clarendon Street but it was not permitted. Other attempts by Elvey in 1887 and George Beer in 1892 were also shelved.
Beer was obtainable here in 1864 then I next heard of it in 1889 when it was said to have been shut for several years. A redundancy charge in February 1906 was upheld in October. The brewer was compensated with £188 and the tenant £15. It must have belonged to the town in 1914 when demolition was authorised, although some parts of Seven Star Street were still being removed in 1934. Of a like name the “William and John” beer house shows in Snargate Street in 1871. It was next door to the “Army and Navy”. There is also evidence of a “William and Mary” which was said to pass from Woodhams, (probably Wittams) to Philpott in 1903. That could be my error and it might well be the house we are now discussing.

Wine Lodge.
41 Townwall Street.
On the corner with Mill Lane this was the property of Wastall and Company Wine Merchants in 1885. It went to Adams in 1901 and possibly to Ash’s East Kent Brewery before ending with Mackeson.
War damage brought about its closure in 1941. It did reopen again post war but in temporary renovated premises. Plans for a new house were approved in September 1960. The original disappeared in March 1961 when the new, with the sign “Britannia” opened on 26th March 1962.

Wine Shades.
Crosswall.
A new licence was issued to Cook in 1864. See also “Ale Shades”.

Wine Vaults.
Snargate Street.
A six-day licence was granted to Adams in 1872. In 1907 the sign became “Trocadero”.

Woolsack Inn.
Thomas Vittery in 1545.

York Hotel.
It has been said that a “York Hotel” stood near the angle of the Pent in 1592. I am not able to elaborate on that statement. I am only able to say that a “York Hotel” was opened by Anthony Payn in the eighteenth century and he still hosted there in 1836 when the “Phoenix coach left the hotel at seven a.m. every day and made its run to the “George” and the “Blue Boar” at Holborn. The fare was £1. 3s. 6d. by mail coach and £1 by the others.
We have fortunately been left with many descriptions of its location. One says that in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth it stood at the seaward end of Union Street “and another’ at that the “York Hotel” stood near the end of the Esplanade during the early part of the (Nineteenth) century” and finally a “York Hotel was in the pier district at the end of the eighteenth century”. Bearing in mind that Waterloo Crescent and Cambridge Terrace later superseded a ropewalk; we are informed “in 1823 it was situated at the lower end of the ropewalk, fronting the sea”.
That year also the name of Sophia Payn can be associated with it. The royal family were prominent on the guest list here. The Duke of Clarence, later King William 1V, in 1797 and Prince Albert on 6th February 1840 on his way to marry Victoria.
This was another part of the town that had to go when the tidal harbour was enlarged in 1844. Another description at that time says, “that the hotel occupied the site of that part of the harbour bounded by the Esplanade and the North quay”.
Another with this name had traded between wars from 15 Waterloo Crescent. It was a private hotel and probably a temperance one at that. I mention it here because it later combined with its neighbour “Brown House” to form the “White Cliffs Hotel”.

York House.
115 Snargate Street.
Present in 1862 and perhaps in its favour, not often hitting the headlines. War damage was made good in December 1945 and ten years later, the derelict property next door was incorporated. Many structural alterations necessary of course which provided a total modernisation. A Mackeson house which joined the Whitbread group.

Young England.
Market Lane.
Formerly the “Regent Tap” a house of dubious reputation towards the end. The name changed sometime after 1851, probably with a fresh start in mind. But…for permitting the assembly of disorderly characters in 1854, the house was closed for good.

Young Prince of Wales.
Bulwark Street.
We only know that it was there in 1842 because that year George Etall the landlord ended his life there. We are aware however that it had once been the “Steamboat”.