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From the Kentish Gazette, 6 February, 1773. Price 1½d.
To be PEREMTORILY sold by Auction,
By THOMAS RIDGWAY, on the Premises, on Wednesday and Thursday the 10th and 11th of
February.
By Order of the Assignees of Mr. Richard Baker, a Bankrupt.
Beginning each Day at Eleven o'clock.
ALL his large UTENSILS and STOCK in TRADE, Household Furniture, Plates,
Linen, China, and other Effects, at his House and Brewery, at Eastgate,
Near Rochester, in Kent.
The utensils consist of a large Brewing Copper, that boils about twenty
Barrels, Iron-work, brick-work, and brick Chimney, five Working-tons,
three Cooling-backs, two Large Liquor-backs, two Mash-tuns, Under-back,
and Copper-back, a large Malt-mill, Horse-wheel, and Works, Lead Pipes,
Brass Cocks, Pumps, and Iron Hoops, a draught Gelding, Dray, Cart, and
Barrels, about thirty Barrels of Beer, three hundred empty Butts and
small Calke, with other Utensils in the Brewery Branch.
To be viewed on Tuesday preceding sale, at the “Rose,” at Dartford, in
Kent, and at Mr. Ridgeway's Sworn Broker, at No. 168, in Fenchurch
Street, London.
This sale was advertised for the 29th of December last, but several
printed hand-bills having been dispersed in different parts of the town,
with the spaces of an hour only before the sale, intimating from claims
to the goods which were then to be sold, the Assignees (least the sale
might be thereby prejudiced) thought it to postpone to the above time,
when the public may be assured the whole will be sold without Reserve.
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From the
http://www.theguardian.com 13 January 2004. By Tanya Aldred
Fordham tickled pink by reception at the Rose
Pub landlord and world champion gets hero's welcome at The "Rose" in
Dartford.
The "Rose" in Dartford was hosting a cracking party yesterday
afternoon. The beams of the pink Victorian pub were decked out with
balloons and bunting and the beer was flowing to celebrate the return of
its landlord and England's latest world champion: Andy Fordham, the man
crowned the winner of the World Professional Darts Championship on
Sunday night.
Alf Mainwaring, a "Rose" regular, had spent all week at Frimley Green
and was in the thick of the celebrations. "About 60 of us from the
"Rose" went down to the darts," he said. "It was fantastic. I probably
spent £500-600 for the week on tickets, beer and food, but I would have
paid £6,000. I had a little bet that Andy would win both the semi-final
and the final and I was up £120, which probably paid for the beers.
"The bar now is absolutely crammed; I'm a local and I've never seen
it like this. It's been just the same old Andy since he's been back; he
walks in here and the first thing he says is 'Give us a bottle of Pils'.
Andy is down-to-earth, really one of the lads; he just sits in the pub
like one of the regulars."
Fordham, 41, seemed to be still recovering from the shock of his 6-3
final victory over Mervyn King. He had endured 10 years and four losing
semi-finals before finally winning and admits that he was starting to be
written off as a not-quite sort of player.
"I was being called the Jimmy White of the darts scene," he said. "To
be labelled with that didn't really bother me because Jimmy is such a
great character and player."
Fordham and his wife Jenny took over the "Rose" in November after
years of running the Queen's Arms in London's East End. But the genial
Fordham has already built a huge following among the locals as well as
darts fanatics.
He sounded taken aback by all the attention. "I thought I might just
come and sit down tonight after last night but the pub has gone
absolutely mental; there's loads of people here and there's decorations
everywhere. It is lovely. The trophy is on display in the bar and
everyone is picking it up but I'm sitting by the door so no one makes
off with it.
"The whole day has been mental; there are cameras everywhere, people
everywhere. I'm not a celebrity, just a normal bloke lucky enough to be
good at darts. The celebrations will go on all week if this is anything
to go by."
Fordham, who plays exhibition matches with the women's world champion
Trina Gulliver showcased Beauty and the Beast, insisted he would not get
carried away by his success.
"The only thing that will change is my bank balance," he said after
pocketing a winner's cheque for £50,000. "I'm just going to put the
cheque away and maybe we will go on holiday somewhere nice in a bit.
It's the biggest thing I've ever done, but I'll just enjoy the rest of
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