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Corporation Street (Common
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Rochester
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From the Kentish Gazette, 14 November 1843.
ROCHESTER. Lamentable Case of Self Destruction.
On Sunday evening an old inhabitant of Rochester, named Holman, was
found about nine o’clock by his own son hanging in a hay loft. An
inquest was held by the city coroner, James Lewis, esq., on Tuesday, at
the "Rochester and Castle Inn." William Holman said he was a nephew of
the deceased; for the last three weeks he has lived in the same house
with his uncle, who has latterly appeared very low spirited, sitting
crying and refusing to eat his meals. On Saturday evening last his uncle
said everything went against him. It appears that his uncle had borrowed
a cart to work with, and by some accident had broken it that day,
creating expense to him, which caused him to despond. On Sunday morning
his uncle was at home, and from misfortune appeared very dull. After 12
o'clock witness did not see his uncle again alive. Witness never heard
his uncle threaten to destroy himself. For the last three weeks he has
much fallen off. George Braddy stated, that having been informed, at a
quarter before nine o’clock of the evening of Sunday, that the deceased
had hung himself, he went to the spot and found him suspended from one
of the girders of the roof of the building, with a rope round his neck
with a slipping noose. Witness cut the deceased down and had him
conveyed to his own residence; a butcher’s slaughterhouse, belonging to
Mr. Balcombe, adjoins the deceased’s stables. The padlock which fastened
the stable door he found laying down, and the key of which witness took
out of the deceased’s pocket. The jury immediately returned a verdict of
"temporary insanity."
A subscription has been set on foot for Holman’s widow, which amounts to
above 5/.
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South Eastern Gazette, 18 October 1853.
Mary Gladman, 37, single woman, was indicted for stealing, on the
30th August at St. Nicholas, a duck, the goods of George Boucher.
The Hon. G. Denman prosecuted.
The prosecutor keeps the "Rochester Castle" public-house, and on the
morning of the 30th August had occasion to go to the water-closet,
where he found the prisoner asleep. On Tassell, the policeman, being
sent for, a bundle was found under his head, containing the duck and
a quantity of feathers.
The prisoner, who said she bought the duck for 3s., was sentenced to
three weeks’ imprisonment.
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From the Chatham News and North Kent Spectator, Saturday 21 May, 1870.
FIRE AT ROCHESTER.
On Wednesday morning shortly after four o'clock, a fire was discovered
at the "Rochester Castle" beer shop, situated on the corner of Careneuve
Street and King Street, Troy Town. A labouring man as he was going to
work, noticed smoke issuing from the back premises, and he immediately
gave an alarm; the police were quickly on the spot with their hose-reel
and fire-engine, and working well with the hose they succeeded in about
three hours in putting the fire out, Sergt. Broadbridge being
particularly noticeable for his cutting exertions, and the constables
acting under his direction are all entitled to great praise. It seems
that the fire originated on the bakehouse premises adjoining the
beer-shop, in a cupboard in which some shavings, and which was situated
near the partition wall immediately adjoining the tap room of the beer
shop; great alarm was caused by the knowledge that an invalid daughter
of Mr. Bockham's, the landlord of the beer shop, was Sleeping in a room
directly over the tap room; fortunately , with assistance, she was got
out of the house in time. The back part of the premises and that of the
adjoining ones were partly built of wood, and the fire soon made a fast
hold upon the material. The police managed to keep the fire from
extending itself to the back of the houses in Caerneuve Street; had
there been a strong wind at the time of the fire breaking out, and it had
spread itself to these premises, the devastation would have been of a
somewhat alarming character. As it was the back part of the premises of
the beer shop and and adjoining baker's shop were completely gutted.
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The pub closed in the 1970s and has subsequently been demolished.
LICENSEE LIST
BOWNER/BOWMER James 1828-32+
BOUCHER George 1847-53+
JEFFERY Thomas 1862+
BOCKHAM Mr 1870+
WADHAMS Richard 1874+
SULLIVAN Michael 1891+ (age 63 in 1891 )
CARPENTER Stephen James 1913-22+
MURRAY Thomas Wilfred 1930+
HETTERBY Charles Leonard 1938+
CASTLE Peter 1970s
https://pubwiki.co.uk/RochesterCastle.shtml
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From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
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