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52 Ordnance Street (52 Front Row
1891 )
Chatham
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From an email received 20 June 2014.
Hello.
My relation was a licensee with her husband of this pub in the early
1900s. Her name was Minnie Esther Bathurst (nee Jarvis) and her husband
was Alfred Bathurst. I have no other information apart from the Bathurst
family were from Nags Head Lane area of Rochester and their home there
was called Bathurst Terrace (long vanished) so maybe they were builders?
Minnie was the sister of my great grandmother and I think she helped
her run The "Army and Navy Hotel"
(now Churchill's) in the Brook.
My great uncle Owen Thomas (born 1915) lived in the "Army
and Navy" as a child. The owners of the paddle ships advertised in
the pub and Owen was given a free ticket to go to Sheerness by them. He
sold sandwiches to the customers of the "Army
and Navy" to raise pocket money for his trip.
I would be very interested if you find any more out about these pubs.
Someone told my dad when he was young that there was a suicide in the
"Lord Nelson" but I have never been able to find out any more details.
Regards Katie Ford - Chatham |
The Licensing
Records of 1872 stated that the premises held a Full License and was owned
by Messrs Meux and Co. Sir Henry Meux Bart Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks
Bart and Mr Richard Berridge, Horse Shoe Brewery Tottenham Court Road.
Up to and including the 1891 census the address appears as 52 Front Row.
This pub is one in the list of my "Project 2014."
I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it,
but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the
information will come from.
All emails are answered.
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Canterbury Weekly, 10 December, 1836.
During the most furious part of the gale, as Mr. Charles Plane,
brewer, late of Maidstone, was passing the "Soldiers Return," at the
bottom of Ordnance Place, Chatham, a large branch of an immense elm
tree was severed from the trunk, and unfortunately struck with such
violence on the head as to cause almost instant death. He has left a
widow and three small children. On Wednesday a coroner's inquest was
held at the "Lord Nelson," Ordnance Place, Chatham, before Robert Hinde the coroner for Kent, on view of the body.
Mr. William Peck, surgeon, stated that he was standing in his shop
on Tuesday during the gale, and about twenty minutes past one
o'clock, the deceased was exactly opposite his door, when part of
one of the five elms growing there was carried away, and struck him
on the head. He immediately ran out to his assistance, but the
unfortunate gentleman was dead, the violence of the blow having
caused a concussion of the brain.
The jury considered together a few minutes, and returned a verdict
of "Accidental Death.
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Kentish Gazette, 2 March 1852.
Death from taking Colchicum.
(Colchicum is a perennial bulb that is easy to plant which will
flower year after year. The common names autumn crocus, meadow
saffron and naked lady. Paul Skelton.)
On Tuesday, the 17th ult., an inquest was held at the "Lord Nelson"
public-house, before T. Hills, Esq., coroner, touching the death of
Martha Field, a rope-maker in the dock yard, residing at
Perry-street, Ordnance-place, who died on the previous day, after a
very short illness.
Sarah Drake deposed that she had known the deceased for many years,
and on Sunday evening, by her husband's desire, went to see her,
when she was lying in bed and complained of having been very sick.
Witness did not at that time think her illness was serious, but on
asking her what was the matter with her, she seemed much agitated,
and at length said she had been taking colchicum. Dr. Ely attended
the deceased, whom he found cold and faint, with incessant vomiting
and purging. She told him she had taken a shilling's worth of
tincture of colchicum, which she had procured at two places, and
that she had taken it on the Saturday previous to her death. Such
mixture Dr. Ely said was frequently used as a common medicine, given
in far smaller doses, but the quantity taken by deceased would cause
death. Verdict accordingly.
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Southeastern Gazette, 27 September 1853.
Death.
Sept. 18, at Ordnance-place, Chatham, Mrs. Mary Chany, aged 61
years, much regretted, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Chany, formerly
of the "Chest Arms Tavern,"
Chatham, and the "Lord Nelson," Ordnance-place.
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LICENSEE LIST
CHANEY Thomas 1828-32+
 
EVERIST William 1872+
SMITH George 1851-62+ (age 42 in 1851)
EVEREST William 1874-82+ (age 53 in 1881)
EVEREST M A Everest 1891+ (widow age 61 in 1891)
BATHURST Alfred Henry 1903-30+
RUSSELL Arthur William 1938-55+
http://www.pubwiki.co.uk/LordNelson.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Licensing
Records 1872
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