GOAT Pub of Sheerness

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sheerness, June, 2025.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 10 June, 2025.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Goat

Open 2019+

6-8 High Street

Mile Town

Sheerness

Above photo 2010 by Chris Whippet Creative Commons Licence.

Above sign July 2012.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above card, found in an old album circa 1960, by Tristram Smith with wording "Licensed Brothel" pencilled in underneath.

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

Sheerness Guardian 11 June 1859.

CASES AT THE COUNTY COURT.

Before Jamee 'Espinasse, Esq., Judge. June 4, 1859.

Collins v. Russell.

A claim of 12s. for beer supplied, proved by plaintiff's wife. Order to pay in a fortnight.

Whitstable times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 7th May 1898.

Sheerness. The rating of licensed houses.

Nearly the whole of the licensed houses of Sheerness have recently been reassessed for rating purposes for the overseers. The increase in the assessments in some cases are double, the rating of the "Wellington Hotel" having been advanced from £60 to £125, the "Belle and Lion Inn," from £44 to £84, the "Britannia Hotel" from £80 to £165, the "Goat Inn" from £32 to £84, the "Victory Tavern" from £48 to £92, the "Criterion Inn" from £36 to £75.

The total increase in the ratings of 55 licensed premises amounts to £1,161 10s.

LICENSEE LIST

COLLINS Thomas 1858-67+ (age 52 in 1861)