LITTLE CROWN Pub of Chatham

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Sort file:- Chatham, December, 2024.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 01 December, 2024.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

Little Crown

Closed 2017-

346 High Street

Chatham

https://whatpub.com/little-crown

Above photo, date 1885, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Above photo, circa 1915, showing licensee Edward Ambrose Billinghurst standing in the doorway. Kindly sent by Marian Thornley.

Above photo, 1985, kindly sent to me by Mike Barnard. Also showing the former "Castle" centre of picture.

Above photo, by Chris Whippet Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo 2013.

Above photo, 2016. Kindly sent by Philip MacDougall author of 'Lost Chatham' published in 2024. https://philipmacdougall.tilda.ws/

Above sign, October 1991.

Thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

As seen from the above photo, the building was obviously rebuilt in the year 1892. It is not known whether this was built on the same foundations as the original one.

I also appear to have the "Royal Oak" address as 346 High Street, so believe there may be a renumbering at one time as the dates overlap.

Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 13 February 1818.

DIED.

Feb. 3, suddenly, Mrs. Jeyes, wife of Mr. Jeyes, of the "Little Crown" public-house, Chatham.

Kentish Gazette, 6 August 1850.

Michael Stanton, 24, stealing one handkerchief, the property of Thomas Richard Blackman, at Chatham. On the 11th of July the prisoner was at the "Little Crown" public house, in Chatham, and was turned out about 10 o'clock, intoxicated. The following morning a silk handkerchief was missing, which was afterwards found on him. Prisoner received a good character.

Acquitted.

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, 2 December, 1856.

INFORMATION AGAINST PUBLICANS.

The following publicans and beershop-keepers were convicted of having their houses open after hours of closing, on the night of Saturday, the 15th inst. The cases were proved by Superintendent-constable Everist and Constables Bridges and Hulse.

Thomas Richard Blackman, "Little Crown," public-house, Chatham.

Fined 20s., and 20s. costs.

The penalties were paid.

South Eastern Gazette, 12 March, 1860.

Conviction of Publicans.

The following licensed victuallers of Chatham were summoned before the magistrates at Rochester, on Friday last, on the information of Police-sergeant Fisher, and convicted in various penalties, for having their houses open for the sale of liquors at prohibited hours on Sunday.

Alfred Bear, "Little Crown," High-street, fined 10s. and costs.

Old maps suggest that the 1892 pub of the name was built a few yards west of the older one, perhaps leaving space between the two sites for the wide pathway through to the New Road called Market Place, which still exists.

Licensee Edward Ambrose Billinghurst 1913-22+ was a Mason and Mayor of Chatham for several years.

Still open in 2013 but reported as being closed and boarded up in 2017.

LICENSEE LIST

JAYES Edward 1818-28+