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Four Throws / Foxhole Lane
Hawkhurst
Above postcard, circa 1920, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above photo, 2009, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above map 1913. |
I have only found reference to this pub the once so far, and that was in
Pigot's Directory of 1828.
This page will be updated as soon as further information is found.
The "George and Dragon" is now named "Four Throws House" after the area.
The other building shown in Foxhole Lane is its coach house. The entire has
now been fenced off to the public.
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Sussex Advertiser, 9 April 1878.
WILFUL DAMAGE.
James Willard was charged with maliciously and wilfully breaking a pane
of glass, value 2s 6d, belonging to George Barden, of the "George and
Dragon" beerhouse, at Hawkhurst, on the 1st of April.
The man was also charged with an assault on P.C. Baker, while in the
execution of his duty, at the same time and place.
The complainant Barden said the man was at his house drunk on Monday
night, and he refused to draw him beer, when he became noisy, and
smashed one of the windows. A constable was sent for, who, on attempting
to remove him, was struck three times.
Three months’ hard labour.
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From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 8 January 1889.
Extensions of time on the occasion of Tradesman's Balls were granted to Mr
Joseph's, "George and Dragon," Hawkhurst.
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Sussex Agricultural Express 29 August 1890.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED LARCENY. CRANBROOK.
At the Vestry Hall, on Friday, a middle-aged man (tattooed all over his
body, professing to have been in the United States navy), who was
wearing the dress of a merchant seaman minus the boots, and who gave the
name Francis Antoney, was brought up on remand, and charged with
feloniously attempting to steal money from a till at the "George and
Dragon Inn," Four Throws, Hawkhurst, on the 19th instant. Adelaide
Coleman, daughter of the proprietor, had occasion to leave the bar, in
front of which the prisoner and his wife were standing drinking on the
date named, when she heard the rattle of copper money, and, returning,
she saw the prisoner leaning over the counter with his hand in the till.
Asked what business he had there, he said he was looking for matches.
The pair of them were then ordered off the premises, and the police sent
for. On being taken into custody by P.C. Bradford, the prisoner was
violent and had to be handcuffed, and, in reply to the charge, said, "Do
I look like a thief ?" In support of the charge, William Coleman,
landlord of the inn, was called, and gave evidence in the case, but
there was an apparent conflict of testimony between him and his daughter
as to the time of the alleged theft, which led the bench to dismiss the
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From the Sussex Express, Surrey Standard. 9 December 1893.
TRANSFERS.
A temporary transfer of the license of the "George and Dragon," Four
Throws, Hawkhurst, was sanctioned from W. T. Lingham to Edward Wickens,
late of the "Oak and Ivy."
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LICENSEE LIST
HAWKHURST William George 1828+
TWAITES Charles 1832+
CROFT Alfred 1841-61+ (age 52 in 1861 )
CROFT Susan 1871+ (widow age 59 in 1871)
CROFT Alfred 1874+
BARDEN William George 1878-81+ (also farmer age 50 in 1881)
JOSEPH Mr 1889+
COLEMAN William 1890-91+ (age 56 in 1891)
LINGHAM W T to Dec/1893
WICKENS Edward Dec/1893-1901+ (also brewer age 50 in
1901)
(Moor Brewery)
PIMM Thomas 1903+
DAVIS Charles 1911-13+ (age 44 in 1911)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/GeorgeDragon.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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