DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Gravesend, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1816

 Founders Arms

Latest 1907

4 Crooked Lane

Gravesend

Founders Arms

Above photo, date unknown, by kind permission of Dave Stableford, and sent by Jason Kemsley.
Founder's Arms

Above photo, date unknown. Kindly supplied by John Hopperton.

 

A new pub was built in 1816, but I am not sure whether it was on the same foundations.

 

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

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This page will be updated as soon as further information is found.

 

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Monday 19 December, 1870.

James Neville, a labourer, was brought up charged with attempting to utter a counterfeit half-crown. The prisoner offered the coin at the "Founders' Arms," on Saturday night. It was at once refused, and when questioned, prisoner said that he knew it was a bad coin, and that he had tendered it in mistake. In reply to the magistrates prisoner said that the coin was given to him by a man who said that it was bad. He put it into his pocket, but did not intend to pass it.

The Bench discharged the prisoner with a caution.

 

LICENSEE LIST

UNDERHILL Henry 1855+

GILBERT Thomas 1861-65+ (age 36 in 1861Census)

BLOCKMAN Thomas 1871+ (listed as Smith age 27 in 1871Census)

PARKER Thomass 1881+ (age 28 in 1881Census)

Last pub licensee had TOWNSEND George 1891+ (age 43 in 1881Census)

BOURNE James 1903+

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