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Sort file:- Gravesend, August, 2021.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 03 August, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1834

(Name from)

 Town Arms

Latest 2000

(Name to)

51 Queen Street

Gravesend

Town Arms

Above photo date unknown. Creative Commons Licence.
Town Arms ledger

Town Arms ledger. Creative Commons Licence.
Town Arms

Above photo, date unknown by John Mason.
Town Arms

Above photo, date unknown.
Town Arms

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

 

Starting life as the "Pippin Tree" as early as 1705, 1724 saw it change name to the "Cherry Tree" until 1834 when it changed again to the "Town Arms." The name remained the same till 2000 when it became "Night Shades." The pub was rebuilt in 1847.

It is said that in 1876 an English chess player called Joseph Henry Blackburne gave a blindfold display in the pub. Without given sight of the boards in play he won 7 games, drew 1 and lost none. The Gravesend Chess Club  was founded the same night and still meets at the "Windmill Tavern" on Thursdays at 8 o'clock (Information by Chris Eve August 2013.)

 

Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser 17 May 1862.

B. COOPER, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT, TOWN ARMS, QUEEN STREET, GRAVESEND.

Begs to acquaint the Public and Visitors that he has every Accommodation. Allsop's Ales and London Porter not to be surpassed. Dinners, etc. on the Shortest Notice. Good Beds and First-rate Skittle Saloon. Families supplied.

 

Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser 27 September 1862.

"TOWN ARMS," QUEEN STREET, GRAVESEND.

B. Cooper, Proprietor. Wines and Spirits of the best quality. London Stout, Ales and Porter.

A Good Skittle Ground. N. B. - A Goose Club is held here.

 

Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser, Saturday 24 March 1877.

For sale, a few tons of chats and seed potatos; also, five or six tons of potatoes, fit for pigs or cattle (cheap); a quantity of best Ware Regents at 4s.

Apply at the "Town Arms," Queen Street, Gravesend.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

CLIFFORD Mrs (widow) to Mar/1842 South Eastern Gazette

MOAKES Mr Mar/1842+ South Eastern Gazette

BENNETT Charles B 1851-61+ (age 40 in 1861Census)

COOPER Benjamin 1862-65+

BIRD Eliza 1871+ Census

BIRD James 1874-78+

BIRD Annie 1881+ (age 25 in 1881Census)

BIRD James 1882+

COLLINS John 1891-1903+ Kelly's 1903

WORTHINGTON George William 1911-13 (age 34 in 1911Census)

WAKEFIELD Lewis 1922+

JENNINGS P S 1923-41

MORFLEET U M 1941-56

JAVENS Copes 1956

PROBITTS A B 1957-59

YORKE E J 1959-Oct/65

DYSON C H Oct/1965+

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

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Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

South Eastern GazetteSouth Eastern Gazette

 

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