GORDON ARMS Pub of Northfleet

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Sort file:- Northfleet, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1887

Gordon Arms

Latest 1939

94 Gordon Road

Rosherville

Northfleet

Above photo, date unknown kindly sent by John Hopperton.

Above Google image, 2008.

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.

Long standing licensees the Dalton and Clarke family held the licence from between 1906 and 1982, when it finally closed, however the Magistrates Liquor License was held for another year till 1983 under a Magistrates protection Order.

A document kindly sent to me by Kenneth Clarke, grandson of licensee Walter James Dalton shows Russell's Gravesend Brewery licensee document of 1939 showing Mr. Ernest Clark as being the licensee to the "Gordon Arms" which was described as an Off-Licence in Gordon Road, Rosherville.

In 1976 the then owners Grand Metropolitan sold the premises to Ernest Clarke.

Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser, Saturday 3 September 1887.

An off-licence removed.

At the general annual Licensing meeting for the North Aylesford division, held at the Rochester Police Court, on Friday last, Mr. George Clinch (Messrs. Tolhurst, Lovell and Clinch) applied, on behalf of Mr. Amos Davy for an order allowing the removal of an off beer licence from 56, High Street, Northfleet, to 94, Gordon Road, Northfleet.

It was, among other things, urged on behalf of the applicant, that High Street was amply provided for, that the house could well be dispensed with there, and that it would be for the public convenience to remove it to Gordon Road, which was in the centre of the Rocherville estate, upon which between 200 and 300 new houses had been erected and were shown on a plan produced.

The premises from and to which the licence was sought to be transferred, belong to Mr. John Russell, who approved of the grant. Mr. S. Honeycomb gave evidence as to value.

The justices granted the application.

Above photo, date and people as yet unknown, kindly sent by Kenneth Clark.

Above photo, circa 1934 showing Doris Dalton holding a young Kenneth Clark who kingly sent this photo, and said in 2020 that Doris had recently sadly died just 2 months from her 100th birthday.

Above pictures showing the License Holders Guild Book and the cellar thermometer for the pub. Kindly sent by Kenneth Clarke.

LICENSEE LIST

RUSSELL John 1887+ (owner, West Street Brewery, Gravesend)

DAVEY Amos 1887+ (licensee)

DEAN Sarah Olive 1901+ (listed as general Shopkeeper widow age 31 in 1901)

BARDOT Richard 1902 (shop-keeper and beer retailer)

DALTON Walter James 1906-1937 dec'd

DALTON Alice (widow) 1937-39

CLARKE Ernest (son-in-law) 1939-June/82 dec'd

CLARKE Ella (widow) June-Dec/1982

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/gordonarms.html

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-

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