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Sort file:- Maidstone, September, 2023.

Page Updated Maidstone:- Monday, 04 September, 2023.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1832-

Bell Tap

Latest 1861+

15 (12 in 1861Census) Week Street

Maidstone

Former Bell Tap 2019

Above photo, 2019, kindly taken and sent by Paul Narramore.

 

This was listed as being next door to the "Bell" and was obviously the tap to the hotel, being such it had a separate license and licensees.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 25 April 1848.

Holloway.

April 12, at Maidstone. Mrs. Holloway, wife of Mr. J. Holloway, of the "Bell Tap," Maidstone, aged 47.

 

LICENSEE LIST

HOLLOWAY John 1832-48+ Next pub licensee had (age 35 in 1841Census) Pigot's Directory 1832-34

SWINFEN John 1853-55+ (Bell)

ISAAC John Shelton to May/1861

EPPS William James May/1861+

 

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

CensusCensus

 

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