DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sittingbourne, April, 2025.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 08 April, 2025.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1789-

Bell

Demolished ????

17 Bell Road

Sittingbourne

Above Google image, September 2018. The Bell would have been somewhere in the middle of this block.

Bell pewter mug 1880

Above pewter mug, circa 1880, kindly sent by Kevin Price.

 

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

Thanks for your co-operation. All emails are answered.

 

I am informed that the building has been demolished but as yet do not know when.

 

26 March 1789.

Insured:- Julius Shepherd, Faversham, Kent, brewer.

Other property or occupiers: the Bell, Sittingbourn (Geoe. Bass, victualler).

 

26 March 1793.

Insured: Julius Shepherd, Faversham, Kent, brewer.

Other property or occupiers: Sittingborne The Bell (Elizabeth Truss victualler).

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

BASS George 1789+

TRUSS Elizabeth 1793+

HAMMOND Peter 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29

HAMMOND Phillip 1832-47+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

BRINCKLEY James 1851+ (age 32 in 1851Census)

BRENCHLEY James 1855-62+ (age 42 in 1861Census)

WATTS John 1870-74+ (age 33 in 1871Census)

SHARP Frederick 1881-91+ (age 42 in 1881Census)

LEEDS Ernest William 1899-1903+ (also corn merchant age 36 in 1901Census) Kelly's 1903

LUCKHURST Charles 1911-38+ (age 52 in 1911Census)

NICE Charles 1918-22 dec'd (age 58 in 1922)

https://pubwiki.co.uk/Bell.shtml

 

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

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

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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