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179 Powis Street (Edward Street 1832)
Woolwich
020 8854 0259
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Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 25 August 1849.
Final accident on the North Kent Railway.
The half-past eight o'clock train from London arrived on Sunday
evening safely at Woolwich, the station of
which place was much crowded on both sides. The entrance to the
platform debouches on the down train. This
train has just begun to start for Gravesend when a frightful scream
was heard - a woman have fallen from the
platform between the carriages. The last two carriages passed over
her chest. For a moment the concourse of
people seem too horrified to pick her up. She was, however, conveyed
into the station, but soon died. As the
wheels of the carriage went over her, they were distinctly seen to
rise and fall. On Tuesday, Mr. C. J. Carttar,
Coroner for Kent, held an inquest at the "Castle Tavern," Woolwich,
touching the death of the deceased, Hannah
Murphy, who, it appears, was the wife of a labouring man.
From the evidence that appeared that the deceased, with her husband,
and three or four friends, natives of the
Emerald Isle, had been enjoying themselves at Woolwich during the
afternoon, and, after paying visits to half a
dozen different public houses, were returning to the railway station
in order to proceed to London, when, by
some accident, they got separated. The deceased, imagining that her
husband had taken his tickets and gone
through the station, hastened after him, as she supposed, and
finding a train alongside the platform, she
grasped hold of one of third-class carriages, in order to obtain a
seat within it. The train was in motion at the
time, and the deceased, continuing to hold on, was dragged along a
few paces, and then fell between two
carriages, in such a position that a part of the train passed over
her chest, and caused instant death. It
appeared that the train deceased attempted to get into was going to
Gravesend from London, and just in the
opposite direction to that in which deceased wanted to go. Evidence
having been given to show that every
proper precaution was taken for the preservation of the passengers
from injury, the Coroner remarked that the
accident appeared to him to have a risen entirely through the
woman's own negligence. The poor creature
appeared to have missed her husband, and without knowing whether the
carriage alongside the platform
belonged to the up or down train, she had run forward and attempted
to get into one of them whilst it was in
motion. No regulation of any railway company could possibly avert
acts of this kind on the part of headstrong
passengers, and he felt it due to the South Eastern Company to say
that, as far as his experience went, he
believed their regulations were equal to those of any company in the
kingdom; they carried, he believed, over
the Greenwich branch, more passengers than any other railway in the
kingdom, especially at Easter and
Whitsuntide, and, as far as he knew he believed they had never
before had a fatal accident to a passenger upon
their line. Mr Finnegan, the Superintendent of the company, who was
in attendance, said it was quite true, they
never had. The jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a
verdict of "Accidental Death.
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Kentish Gazette, 10 January 1854.
A coroner's inquest was held Friday at the "Castle Tavern," before,
C. J. Carttar, Esq., coroner, to inquire into the
circumstances attending the death of John Hayes, aged 40, in the
employ of Mesers. Kirk and Parry; and a youth named
James Elias Jarratt, about 14 years of age, who were drowned by the
upsetting of a boat on the Thames, near the North
Woolwich Pier.
From the evidence of three of the men who were in the boat with the
deceased. it appeared that seven men and the lad
Jarratt got into the boat, belonging to the barge, to disembark on
the Essex side of the river, and were hastening towards the
shore, when one of the witnesses fell down on the side of the boat
and upset it, and the whole eight persons were immersed
in the river, and Hayes and Jarratt were unfortunately drowned.
Verdict:— Accidental Death.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 4 August, 1855.
Coroner’s Inquests.
On Tuesday last, the following inquests were held at the "Castle
Inn," Powis-street, before C. J. Carttar, Esq., coroner:- On the
body of Emma Rachael Thompson, a child five months old. It appeared
from the evidence that the child was takes ill about 4 o’clock in
the morning of Sunday last, and died in the afternoon of the tame
day; the child was usually healthy, but the mother, who resides with
her husband in East-street, Bull Fields, was given to drink, and the
child had been neglected. The jury returned a verdict of Died from
natural causes, and the mother received wholesome advice as to her
future conduct.
An inquest was also held on the body of a child, named Eliza Bull,
whose parents resided in Charles-street. It appeared that the
deceased had been accidentally burned, and was conveyed to the
hospital, but was not effectually cured, and on being conveyed home,
she died from the effects of the injuries.
Verdict, Accidental Death.
An inquest was also held on the body of a child unknown, which was
found in the river, off Woolwich.
Verdict, Found Drowned.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 18 August, 1855.
Coroner’s Inquests.
On Saturday last, inquests were held at the "Castle Inn," Woolwich,
as follows:— On the body of a lad found drowned in the river on the
previous Thursday. There was no evidence as to the identity, and the
jury returned an open verdict.
On the body of John Parker, a workman employed in the Arsenal and
residing in Charles-street, who it appeared suddenly expired on the
previous Friday morning immediately after returning home to
breakfast. It appeared that the cause of death was apoplexy -
Verdict Died by the visitation of God.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 8 September, 1855.
Inquest.
On Monday week an Inquest was held at the "Castle Inn," on the body
of an old woman named Rosina Devine. From the evidence it appeared
that the deceased was found drowned in the river, near the Marsh
Wall, and that on the previous day she had been to London, and on
her return home fell in with a Greenwich Pensioner whom she had
accompanied to several public houses, and it was supposed that the
deceased walked into the river being nearly blind as well as
intoxicated.
Verdict:- "Found Drowned."
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 23 August, 1856.
Coroner's Inquests.
On Monday last, an inquest was held at the "Castle Inn" before C. J.
Carttar, Esq., coroner, on the body of a child five years of age,
who was found drowned off Blackwall Pier. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased who is the son of French parents, was on
Blackwall Pier with his family, who were out for a holiday, when by
some unexplained means he fell from the edge of the pier into the
water, and although boats were immediately in requisition he could
not be saved.
Verdict of Accidentally Drowned.
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 21 November, 1857.
TRANSFER OF LICENSES, Nov. 14.
(Present — Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart. (Chairman), T. Lewin, J. Sutton,
and E. Eagleton, Esqrs.)
Woolwich.
"Castle," William Joseph Richards to John Rowland.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 25 January 1862.
Five Licences Transferred.
The "Castle," Richard-street;
(I assume this is the same area)
"George the Fourth," King-street;
"Crown and Mason’s Arms," Cannon-row;
The "Steam Packet," Bellwater-gate;
The "Anchor and Hope,"
River side, Charlton.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 24 May 1862.
Inquests.
Having given an account in our last week's number of the melancholy
death by drowning of Stevedore William Cook, and of a body of a
youth found floating off the Arsenal, we have only to state that an
inquest has been held on the bodies at the "Castle-inn," Woolwich,
before C. J. Carttar, Esq., and an open verdict returned.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 26 July 1862.
Inquest.
On Monday last an inquest was held at "Castle Inn," Woolwich, before
C. J. Carttar, Esq., on the body of Frederick Foster, a young man,
of Lambeth, who was found drowned, on Sunday last, in the Thames,
off Woolwich, when an open verdict of "Found drowned" was returned.
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LICENSEE LIST
THUNDER William 1823-40+
 
RICHARDS William Joseph 1852-14/Nov/58
ROWLAND John 14/Nov/1858+
BICKERSTAFF H A 1862+
SMITH William Horrocis 1866+
HARRIS Ann to May/1869
HARRIS Richard May/1869+
HINE Henry 1874+
KEEBLE William Henry 1882+
DANIELS David 1891-1901+ (age 45 in 1891 )
FOSS Charles Thomas 1904-11+
NAYLOR George John 1913-21+
BATLEY William James 1934-44+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Castle.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From
the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
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