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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1793-

 Crown

Latest ????

High Street?

Chatham

Crown farthing token

Above farthing token, date unknown. Stating the name IOHN KNIGHT around a Crown. Most of these tokens being mid 1600s.

 

The token shown may have been used at the pub and most were made and issued around 1666. However, not all were connected to inns and some were used for other merchants, such as Grocer's.

The following information has only been seen to date in the Universal British Directory of Trade 1793, unfortunately the only information it contained was the name of the licensee and pub but no address.

Further information found in the Licensing Records of 1872 states that the premises was operation under a Full license and was owned by Edward Winch of Chatham, and that the address may have been in the High Street.

 

From the Southeastern Gazette, 20 February 1866.

The late Robbery at the “Crown Inn.”

We are informed that some errors occurred in a paragraph which we gave last week, respecting a robbery of spirits at the “Crown,” kept by Mr. William Clarke Fox. The first witness called was stated to have been Mr. Fox’s wife, whereas it was his mother; and the statement with regard to the prisoner remaining at the bar while she went down into the cellar was incorrect. One of the prisoners name to the bar and asked for the ale; and when the witness came up from the cellar both were in the taproom.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

KNIGHT John 17th century

BEVERISH Elizabeth 1793+ Trade Directory 1793

FOX William Clarke 1866+

BEAR Edward Joseph 1872+ Licensing Records 1872

 

Trade Directory 1793Universal British Directory of Trade 1793

Licensing Records 1872Licensing Records 1872

 

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