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99 Pier Road 1881
/ 218 (212) Medway Road
Gillingham
 Above photo 1925, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.
Showing landlady Mrs. Crane. |
Above trinket box, circa 1880. |
Situated on the corner of Richmond Road and in 1810 Gillingham Lane which
became the Medway Road and Burnt Oak Lane became Richmond Road.
A Shalder was an oyster catcher and this pub was named after them.
However, I have seen the suggestion that the pub was named after a
Brickmaker. The pub closed its doors on the 14th of March 1973 and was
demolished shortly afterwards during road improvements.
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Information below by Ben Levick
The "Shalders Arms" opened before 1810 and was on the corner of
Richmond Road and Medway Road. Richard Shalders was a brickmaker and
builder who died in 1804. The pub was demolished during road widening in
the 1970s but is commemorated in the name of the residential care home
built on the rear of the site - Shalders House.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 22 August 1865.
Conviction of a Beerhouse Keeper.
Yesterday, at the Chatham Police Court, John Murray Hayes, keeper of "Shalders
Arms" beerhouse, Gillingham, was charged with having his house open for
the sale of beer between the hours of 11 and 12 on Sunday morning. The
information was laid by Detective Sergeant Morgan, who on visiting the
defendant's house at the time named found several persons there
drinking.
The defendant, who admitted the offence, was fined 20s. and costs.
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East Kent Gazette, Friday 26 October 1962.
Rodmersham's ex-licensee dies age 69.
Former licensee of the "Fruiterers Arms," Rodmersham Green, and a well-known
man in the Sittingbourne area, Mr. John Butcher, of the "Shalders
Arms," Gillingham, died last week age 69.
It was about 12 months ago that Mr. Butcher returned to
Gillingham, after being at Rodmersham since 1953. He died at All
Saints Hospital after a short illness.
Born at Memphis, Tennessee, of emigrant parents, he first went to
Gillingham at the age of 16 and worked on the railways for 21 years.
he then ran a wholesale and retail newsagents' business and also
founded the Strand Tearooms, Gillingham, which he ran for 25 years.
A member of the British Legion, and a founder member of St,
Mary's Masonic Lodge, Mr. Butcher was very well known and liked.
The family also suffered a bereavement nine months ago when a
daughter died.
Mr. Butcher is survived by his wife Alice and two children, Joan
and James.
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LICENSEE LIST
HAYES John Murray 1865+
CRANE William 1871-82+ (also town carter age 53 in 1871)
CRANE Sarah Crane 1891+ (widow also town carter age 71 in 1891)
CRANE William John 1901-22+ (age 23 in 1901)
CRANE Mrs 1925+
CRANE William John 1930+
HILBURN George Henry
1938-43+
MILLS Harold 1955+
BUTCHER John J 1961-Oct/62 dec'd
https://pubwiki.co.uk/ShaldersArms.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/shaldersarms.html
Census
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