DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Ramsgate, December, 2023.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 13 December, 2023.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1851-

Prince of Orange

Latest 1861+

Belle Vue

Ramsgate

 

Traced from between 1951 and 1861 at present..

 

From the Kentish Chronicle, 23 June, 1860.

Francis Thompson, of the "Prince of Orange Inn," appeared to answer a summons for assaulting George Furner, on the 8th inst. The defendant pleaded not guilty.

Complainant deposed: I live at 49, High-street. On the 8th inst. I was on the Belle Vue Hill, between three and four, soliciting orders for my master. Mr. Hewitt, when defendant said if I came opposite his house touting he would kick me off. I said nothing, and passed on to a grocer's shop on the hill, which is defendant's, I wanted to speak to the person who was in there. I had hardly got in when complainant followed me in. He asked me what I wanted there; it was his property. I told him I did not want him nor his property, upon which he pushed me off the step of the pavement into the road and struck me, and I then returned it.

Defendant said he did not strike Furner until he had told him to "come out," and he would give it to him.

Mr. Crofton said it was quite clear that an assault had been committed, by defendant's own admission; but as it arose out of the abominable practice of touting, and the costs were heavy (12s.), the Bench would only fine him 1s.

Money paid.

 

South Eastern Gazette, 26 June, 1860.

PETTY SESSIONS, Monday. (Before A. Crofton, F. Whitehead, H. Benson, and G. E. Hannam, Esqrs., and Major-General Williams.)

Francis Thompson, of the "Prince of Orange Inn," was charged with assaulting George Turner, on the 8th inst. It appeared that about 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the day in question the complainant was out soliciting orders for his master, a grocer, and having pursued his calling near defendant’s house, the latter threatened to kick him, upon which complainant went down Belle-Vue-hill into a grocer’s shop carried on by a manager for defendant, who followed complainant there, pushed him into the road and struck him. This was confirmed by a witness named Sackett. Mr. Crofton said that as the affair arose out of the abominable practice of touting, and the costs 12s, being heavy, the Bench would only inflict a fine of 1s.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

BAINES Henry 1851+

THOMPSON Francis 1860-61+ (age 35 in 1861Census)

 

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