ROPEMAKER'S ARMS Pub of Chatham

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Sort file:- Chatham, August, 2024.

Page Updated:- Thursday, 01 August, 2024.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1872-

Ropemaker's Arms

Latest Nov 2005

New Road

Chatham

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, 1950s. Showing Alf Daniel in the doorway.

Above photo, 1972, taken from the TV series "Softly, Softly Task Force" in an episode called "The Witness."

Above photograph 2005.

Above showing the inside on the last night. People in photo unknown.

The Licensing Records of 1872 stated the premises held a Beer License and was owned by Mary Elizabeth Lock Beveridge of Ramsgate.

Links with the sea and the now defunct Chatham Naval Base, are maintained at the "Ropemaker's Arms," near the ropewalk where men, women and children manufactured ropes for shipping in the good old days.

After closure in November 2005 it became a Papa Johns take away.

The houses on the left of the pub were demolished in the 1960s and a church built in their place.

This pub is one in the list of my "Project 2014."

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 13 June 1854.

Public house and beer house information.

The following publicans and beer sellers, at Chatham, were charged, at the instances of Superintendent Everist, with keeping their houses open for the sale of beer after the legal hour of 11 o'clock at night.

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Thomas Ayerst, of the "Prince of Wales," beer-house, Gillingham;

Richard Turley, of the "Saracen's Head,"

John Durling, of the "Queen Victoria,"

Thomas Cameron, of the "Ropemaker's Arms,

Charles Tassell, of the "Plough," Ordnance place, each fined 20s., and 12s. costs;

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LICENSEE LIST

CAMERON Thomas 1854+