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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1840-

(Name from)

 Fishing Smack

Latest 1899

45 West Street

Gravesend

 

The pub was previously called the "Cod Smack," and changed name, between 1832 and 1840.

 

London Gazette, 29 November 1844.

Walter Joseph Stooke Lee former Innkeeper, now Prisoner for Debt in the Gaol of Maidstone.

 

From the Southeastern Gazette, 27 March 1866.

Death by Drowning.

Our obituary contains an announcement of the death of Mr. James Stimson, of the “Fishing Smack,” West-street, which took place on the 13th inst., at Gottenburg. Deceased was a seafaring man, and often acted as sea pilot, or “captain's nurse.” He met his death by a fall from a plank, whilst going a-board his vessel, as she lay in dock or at the wharf.

 
 

 

LICENSEE LIST

MACDONALD William 1840+

LEE Walter Joseph Stooke Lee 1844

LOFT Thomas Beale 1855-62+ (age 63 in 1861Census)

STIMSON James 1865-66+

PEARCEY William James 1864+

PEARSON Philip Gregory 1878-91+ (age 45 in 1881Census)

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

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

 

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