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Sort file:- Gravesend, November, 2022.

Page Updated:- Thursday, 17 November, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1883

(Name from)

 Commercial Hotel

Latest 1928

Promenade/Commercial Place

Milton next Gravesend

Commercial Hotel 1908

Above photo 1908.
Commercial Hotel 1923

Above photo 1923.

 

Built in 1819 as "Wates Hotel" the name changed in 1883 although I have found reference to a "Commercial" in Pigot's Directory of 1832.

The building was situated at the western end of the promenade near Custom House and is reputed to be where Charles Dickens once stayed.

 

Canterbury Weekly, 27 May, 1837.

Death.

On the 19th inst., Mr. Trevise, of the "Commercial Tavern," Milton, next Gravesend.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 30 May 1837.

DEATHS.

Mr. Trevise, of the "Commercial Tavern," Milton next Gravesend.

 

LICENSEE LIST

TITZISE Fras 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29 (Commercial Hotel)

WATES James 1832+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34(Commercial)

TREVISE Mr to May/1837 dec'd

WATES James 1841+ (age 35 in 1841Census)

BASDEN James M 1865+

PEARSE Mary Jane Miss 1874-78+

FORD Mary E 1881+ (age 21 in 1881Census)

FORD Emily Miss 1882+

COTTON Edward James 1903+

SWIFT E 1908+

TOOLEY Eliza 1913+

DRISCOLL Will 1922-23+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/CommercialHotel.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/commercialtavern.html

 

Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

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

CensusCensus

 

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