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Sort file:- Chatham, September, 2023.

Page Updated:- Saturday, 16 September, 2023.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1858-

 Rose and Crown

Latest ????

12 Fort Pitt Street

Chatham

 

The Licensing Records of 1872 stated the premises held a Beer License and was owned by Elizabeth Rebecca Boys of Fort Pitt Street, Ordnance Place, Chatham.

 

I believe all the original premises at Fort Pitt Street have been redeveloped and is now a housing estate.

 

Dover Chronicles 28 August 1847.

Death.

August 22, at Chatham, Mr. William Beadle, landlord of the "Rose and Crown."

This could however be for the "Rose and Crown" in the High Street.

 

Kentish Gazette, 31 August 1847.

DEATH.

Beadle:- August 22, at Chatham, Mr. William Beadle, landlord of the "Rose and Crown."

This could however be for the "Rose and Crown" in the High Street.

 

The Morning Leader. London. Friday 10 August 1906. Page 2.

HAMMOND Robert George of the " Rose and Crown " public-house Chatham died 9 August 1906 at Chatham-station Chatham Probate London 21 September to Patience Eleanor Hammond widow Effects £815.

News items:

"Half an hour after he had left the house the dead body of Robert George Hammond, 44, landlord of the "Rose and Crown Inn," was discovered yesterday at the foot of the cliff at the entrance to Chatham Tunnel. The skull was fractured."

 

The Coroner's report stated that he suffered from "Temporary Insanity."

 

Northampton Daily Reporter & Echo. Saturday. 11 August. 1906. Page 3.

"At the Chatham inquest on Friday on Robert George Hammond, who threw himself over a cliff, the coroner commented upon the large number of suicides that had resulted from the excessive heat."

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

BOYS Frederick E 1858+

BOYS Frederick Richardson 1862+

CATE Edward A 1881-82+ (also Carpet & Upholsterers Salesman age 42 in 1881Census)

BOYS Henry James 1872+ Licensing Records 1872

WELLS Caroline 1891+ (widow age 72 in 1891Census)

Last pub licensee had HAMMOND Robert George to 9/Aug/1906 dec'd

PERCIVAL James 1911 (beer retailer age 64 at 11 Fort Pitt Street Census)

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