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Cross Street
St Dunstan's
Canterbury
Above photo October 2022, showing 30 Cross Street, which may have been this pub or the
"Four Brothers." |
In the middle of the 19th century, there were no fewer than 3 pubs/beer
houses on Cross Street. Not bad for a back street which is only c.150m in
length! The location of the "Builder's
Arms" is known as 1 Cross Street, but not that of either the "Four
Brothers," or the "King William IV." Number 30, Cross Street
(immediately opposite the
"Builder's Arms") is known to
have been a pub but to date, the exact name hasn't surfaced. It could be
either of the two others.
Map annotated by Rory Kehoe, showing 1874 OS map of the area, with
the location of the pub outlined in yellow. |
I have reference to two other pubs with this name, the "King William IV"
at North Lane, and the "King William IV" at 64A Union Street.
This one was a short lived beer house not to be confused to the above. Cross
Street being the closest to North Lane, and St Gregories Road being the
closest to Union Street.
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From the South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 29 October 1861.
INQUEST.
On Friday evening last the city coroner T. T. Delasaux, Esq., held an
inquest at the "King William IV.," Cross Street, in the ville of St.
Gregory, touching the death of a new-born child, the offspring of Mary
Ann Clinton, only 15 years of age.
The grandmother of the deceased child
deposed that she suspected her daughter of being in the family way, and
challenged her with it, but she denied that she was so. That morning
witness left her home about half-past six, and returned about 9 o'clock,
when she expressed an opinion that her daughter would soon give birth to
a child, as she was then very ill, but the daughter still denied most
positively that there were any grounds for witnesses apprehensions.
Witness then left the house and returned again at about 10 o'clock, when
her daughter said she was a little better. Witness again left, returning
in about an hour, when she found the deceased child on the floor, its
mother lying on the bed. She immediately sent for Mr. Andrews, surgeon.
Mr. A. B. Andrews deposed that he found that the daughter of the
previous witness had been recently confined. He examined the body of the
deceased child, but found no marks of violence upon it. He could not say
whether the child was born alive, unless he made a post-mortem
examination of the body, and then only by floating the lungs in water,
which the coroner showed by a recent authority could not be received as
conclusive proof.
Under these circumstances the jury returned a verdict
to the effects that the child in question was still born.
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LICENSEE LIST
POPE James 1851-Nov/60 dec'd (widower age 56 in 1851 )
 
From Melville's Directory 1858
Kentish
Chronicle
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