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70 West Street
Gravesend
Above photo, circa 1913. |
Above photo, date unknown. Kindly supplied by John Hopperton. |
Information collected from "Gazetteer of Gravesend and Milton Inns and
Public Houses" by Eric Russell Green. May 2000.
According to the above publication, the house can be found from between
1781 and 1844, and then again between 1860 and 1922.
The original premises was destroyed by a fire in 1844 and I assume the
property was rebuilt some time before 1860.
Information about the
fire can be viewed here.
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Southeastern Gazette, 10 May 1853.
Friday. Before J. Saddingion, Esq., Mayor, R, Oakes, C. Spencer, and
E. Tickner, Esqrs.)
George Palmer Missing had the same complaint
made against him, (for keeping his house open on Sunday morning)
and said he had only three parties in the house who were
lodgers. White saw four persons present, one a townsman. Fined 7s. and costs. |
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Kentish Independent, Saturday 14 May 1853.
George Palmer Missing, landlord of the "India Arms," was also similarly
summoned, for having his house open for the sale of liquor on Sunday
morning.
Police Constable White stated that between 11 and 12 he knocked at the
house and obtained admission, the landlord said no one was in the house,
but on witness going through to a back room, he found four men in the
room, drinking and smoking, they were strangers to witness, but one was
a shipwright belong to the town.
The witness said three were lodgers, and the others had got in by
climbing over the wall.
The Bench inflicted the following penalty, Mr. Missing 7s. and costs 7s.
6d.
The Bench in reply to a question from one of the publicans present said
that they did not consider persons coming from London on pleasure by the
steamboat's were "travellers," such as a law contemplated in the
exceptions.
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London Gazette, 9 April 1869.
Former Licensed Victualler, now in the Debtors Prison for Surrey.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Monday 8 January 1872.
Juvenile thieves.
William Bagshawe, age 8, Lewis George Litkey, 12, George Loft, 8, and
Charles Spencer Bennett, 11, were charged with stealing
some bottles from the cart of George James Phillips, a ginger beer
manufacturers, of Chatham. Prosecuter said he left his car
outside the "India Arms Tavern," West Street, while he delivered some
goods at the house. Coming out he heard a rattle of bottles,
and saw some boys running away. He pursued and captured Bagshawe, who
had a bottle, which he admitted to have stolen. From
information given, the other prisoners were taken, and four bottles were
found at the shop of a dealer name Swift. Mr. James
Swift, keeping a shop in Church Street, admitted buying the bottles, and
identified one of the boys as having brought them for
sale. The Bench severely censured the practice of dealers buying
articles of such children, and cautioned Swift as to his future
conduct. The Mayor said prisoners would be remanded to Saturday evening,
when a special session would be held to decide what
should be done with them. |
LICENSEE LIST
MISSING George 1824-44
 
MISSING George Palmer 1853-62+ (age 39 in 1861 )
LEWIS Frederick William 1865+
FLEMING John to Apr/1869
TURPIN James
Apr/1869+
BEARD Jacob 1874+
MUGGRIDGE John 1878+
BIGWOOD Augusta 1881+ (widow age 57 in 1881)
BIGWOOD Alfred 1882+
WELLS George 1891+
READER Henry 1903+
PRATT Charles E 1913+
KINGSTON Albert 1922+
BEARD W 1930+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/IndiaArms.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/indiaarms.html
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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