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High Street
Herne Bay
Obviously attached to the "Pier Hotel"
this was operating under its own license in the 1860s.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 6 January 1846.
DEATH.
Harvey:- Dec. 24, at Herne Bay, Mr. Cloice Harvey, landlord of the "Pier
Hotel Tap," aged 40.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 22 September 1857.
Saturday. (Before E. Foss, Esq., Wm. Delmar, Esq., n. Kingsford,
Esq., Wm. Hyder, Esq., and Capt. Slarke.)
John Thompson was charged with assaulting Mary Ann Rowland.
It appeared from the evidence adduced that the complainant is the
daughter of the landlord of the "Pier Hotel Tap," at Herne Bay. The
defendant, with other labourers, has been in the habit of
frequenting the house, and on Wednesday afternoon last he was there
drinking and asked for a screw of tobacco, which was brought him by
complainant. She then asked him for the money, and he began to abuse
her, using very foul language, and shaking his fist in her face.
The offence was proved by the evidence of complainant’s sister, and
a young man named George Jones. The defendant made a rambling
statement to the bench, accusing the complainant of having
previously insulted him, and saying that the case was got up in
consequence of a trifling debt which he owed at the house.
He called John Stephenson, his mate, who corroborated his statement,
but the Bench gave credit to the witnesses for the prosecution, and
fined the defendant £1 and costs — together £1 13s.
The money was paid.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 9 June, 1860.
HERNE BAY. A RASH BET - ASSAULT.
At the St. Augustine’s Petty Sessions on Saturday last, William Mount a
fisherman was charged with haying unlawfully assaulted and beaten
Matthew Hustwill, a collector of dues for the Pier Company.
The complainant deposed that on the previous Wednesday afternoon he went
to the "Pier Hotel Tap," Herne Bay, for the purpose of collecting the
dues from the master of the barge Hero. Defendant was standing by, and
upon complainant's receiving the money he (defendant) remarked, "You are
a ------ fool for paying him; he has no authority to collect it, and he
drinks it out at night with Captain Gardener." Complainant then
threatened to "pull" defendant for defamation of character. This only
increased defendant's wrath. He offered to bet any amount that
complainant could not produce any Act of Parliament showing that he had
authority for collecting the dues, and ultimately a wager of a sovereign
was made, and the money duly placed in the hands of a third party.
Complainant then fetched the Act, and proved that the defendant was
wrong, but consented to retain half-a-sovereign only on account of the
bet. Defendant then grumbled and said he would get the money out of him
(complainant). Some little time afterwards, while complainant was
sitting in the parlour of the lap, the defendant all of a sudden got up
and struck him several blows in the face, producing the cuts still on
it. A person named Pilcher confirmed the complainant's version of the
affair. He acted as stake holder in the wager, and when defendant struck
the complainant he assisted in parting them.
The defendant's answer to the charge was, that the complainant had
been drinking with him, after the wager, for two hours and a half, and
that the half sovereign fell on the ground. They both scuttled for it,
and complainant being very drunk he fell against the table and cut his
face. No hand could produce such straight cuts the complainant's face
displayed. The Bench considered it a very aggravated case of assault,
and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of £1, and 12s. costs, or 21
days imprisonment. The money was paid.
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LICENSEE LIST
HARVEY Cloice Mr to 24/Dec/1845 dec'd
MACKETT George 1851+ (barman age 36 in 1851 )
ROWLAND John 1861-62+ (age 58 in 1861)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/PierHotelTap.shtml
Census
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