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257 High Street
Chatham
Above photo circa 2017, by Darkstar, showing 257 High Street. |
In 1869-70 the pub was part of a consortium who were advertising their
goods of selling tea in response to grocers' selling beer and wine. (Click
for further details.)
In 1872 the premises was operating under a Full license and was owned by
Edward Winch of Chatham.
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Kentish Gazette, 23 April, 1783.
Thursday night died, aged 51 years, Mrs. Patten, wife of Mr. Richard
Patten, of the "Dartmouth Arms," Chatham.
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Kentish Gazette, 18 May, 1821.
On Thursday last an accident occurred at the "Dartmouth Arms," in
Chatham. Some of the servants of J. Best, esq. had been employed
there delivering beer, and while two of them were in the act of
setting up a butt in the cellar, it fell on one of them, named James
Smith, and broke his leg in a dreadful manner.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 28 August 1838.
CHATHAM, Aug. 18. Highway Robbery, attended with Violence.
On Saturday evening last, Mr. Scott, a watchmaker, living in
Week-street, Maidstone, returning from Gillingham to Chatham, was
stopped in crossing Chatham-lines by two private soldiers, who
demanded his money. They felled him to the ground, and one of the
soldiers knelt on his body, seized him by the throat, and
endeavoured to choke him; while the other rifled his pockets, and
took from his person 5s. 6d., all the money he had about him. Mr.
Scott bit the man very severely on the fore-finger at the time he
attempted to strangle him. He repaired to the barracks next morning,
to endeavour to find out the men, and acquainted the commanding
officer of the robbery. The bugle was immediately ordered to be
sounded, and the men called out, when two were found missing. The
picquets discovered one in a loft at the back of the "Dartmouth
Arms," and the other on the Lines. On Monday they appeared before
the magistrates at Rochester, and were fully committed. The soldiers
belong to the 50th regiment, and their names are Fitzgerald and
Thistlewood. The latter is son of the Thistlewood who was hung for
the Cato-street conspiracy.
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Maidstone Journal, 10 May, 1842.
On Monday and Wednesday the county Justices proceeded with the
hearing of the information's against the
publicans and beersellers of Chatham, whose cases had not come on at
the last previous sitting.
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The only remaining information was against the "Dartmouth Arms,"
which was withdrawn for want of
evidence. The number of convictions taken place since the formation
of the Auxiliary Society for the
protection of young females, &c., in the neighbourhood, has been
nineteen. The society last week addressed
a notice to young females who wish to be restored to their friends
and home, offering them assistance “to
enable them to escape from their present state of degradation and
misery," and a reward of £5 for
information of any publican keeping prostitutes in his house. The
witness Richbell was attacked on Tuesday,
in Chatham, by a man named Donmal, formerly a baker, in Brompton,
for whose apprehension a warrant
since been issued.
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LICENSEE LIST
PATTERN Richard 1783+
LISLE W 1828+
ANDERSON Thomas 1832+
SANTO/SANCTO John 1838-40+
HAWLEY John 1858-74+ (also tobacco pipe maker age 59 in 1871 )
HARCUS John Edward 1881+ (age 22 in 1881)
HAND E Mrs 1882+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/DartmouthArms.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/dartmoutharms.html
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Wright's
Topography 1838
Licensing
Records 1872
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