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High Street (Clover Lane 1832
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Chatham
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. I have found
no other reference to the pub so far.
Further research gives an address of High Street from the Pigot's
Directory of 1828, while the same in 1832 states Clover Lane.
I believe this was originally known as the "Bunch
of Grapes" and later went on to be known as the "Compasses."
However, some confusion is apparent over this information at present.
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Local paper of 7 Feb 1786.
...went to the Ferry and so to Chatham,
Rochester and Strood. At night slept at John Elvy’s at the Wool Pack in
Chatham. John Jenkins died suddenly in his bed.
8 Feb - Up at 3 on account of the death of the above man....
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From Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser 13 October 1825.
THE KIDNAPPED CHILD.
Tuesday, a letter addressed by Mr. Dodd, the landlord of the "Woolpack Inn," Chatham, was received by Weller, the poor man whose child was
stolen one day last week from a girl to whom it was entrusted, which
there is every reason to hope, may lead to the apprehension of the
wretch who kidnapped the baby. Immediately on Weller receiving the
letter, he hastened to Union Hall with it, and Grossmith, an active
officer of the establishment, was dispatched immediately to Chatham, in
order to pursue the fugitive. The substance of the letter was to this
effect:- Mr. Dodd, having read a description of the woman in the
newspapers, recollected that the day preceding a woman answering the
description so given, was at his house with a young infant which was
believed not to be her own child, on her being questioned about it. She
ordered it some boiled milk, of which the child having partaken, it went
to sleep, and she then departed. But the writer had a clue by which she
may be pursued. The mother of the stolen baby still continues very ill,
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From the Kentish Gazette, 5 December 1848.
CHATHAM. Military Affray at Chatham.
On Saturday evening some serious effects were anticipated in consequence
of some men belonging to the Royal Marines manifesting a disposition of
violence at the "White Hart" public-house, in the High-street. Being,
however, foiled in their object at that house, they left and entered the
tap-room at the "Woolpack," where some men belonging to the 17th
Regiment and some soldiers of the Provisional Battalion and civilians
were sitting. A soldier of the Marine Artillery, and a private of the
Marines, entered first and asked who had any thing to say about a "Pig
Marine," and not meeting with a reply, and the landlady refusing to draw
them any beer, a signal was given, and immediately from 30 to 40 marines
entered the tap-room and commenced fighting with every one present.
Resistance was offered, and a serious disturbance ensued; every sort of
weapon was seized in defence, and blood flowed pretty freely from those
who received wounds. One marine had his nose split from the blow of a
pewter pot, and the tap-room tables and flooring were marked with blood
in several places. The police-constables were sent for, who, seeing the
violence of the soldiers, sent an express to the barracks for
assistance, and but for the timely arrival of about a dozen pickets
together with the inlaying picket, commanded by an officer, some lives
would have been lost, as there was nearly a thousand civilians
collected, some taking one part and some the other; but owing to the
orderly conduct of the men of the several pickets the ringleaders were
secured and marched off to the guard room. No blame whatever attaches to
either the men of the 17th or the Provisional Battalion in provoking the
outrage. They were sitting quietly and were sober when their assailants
came in. This affair is to be investigated by the commandant. The
landlady of the "Woolpack" has identified the marine artillerymen and
also the marine as the ringleaders.
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South Eastern Gazette 8 August 1854.
ILLEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
At the magistrates' office on Friday last, Matthias Charles Garrett, landlord of the
"Woolpack," Chatham, was charged
by Inspector Flenley with having twelve measures in his possession, all
unjust; he had also been previously convicted of using deficient
weights; fined £1, and 15s. costs.
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South Eastern Gazette, 21 August, 1860.
Brutal Assault by a Soldier.
Yesterday, at the county magistrates’ justice-room, James Burke, a
private-in the 4th King’s Own, who had recently arrived from India,
was charged with a brutal assault on a female named Ann Tappin. The
prosecutrix met with the prisoner at the "Woolpack" public-house,
Chatham. In the course of the night the prisoner rose and threatened
to cut her throat with a razor which he had in his hand, previously
to doing which he had beat and kicked her, and tore bar hair from
her head. Prosecutrix exhibited a screw black eye and several
bruises on her body, the result of prisoner’s violence. The cries of
"murder" from ther prosecutrix induced the landlady to go up stairs,
when she heard the prisoner threatening to cut her throat and
brandishing a razor in his hand, which the landlady took away. The
prisoner’s conduct was so violent that several of the articles in
the room were broken. She prisoner in his defence pleaded that he
was drunk, and that the prosecutrix had abstracted a sovereign and a
half from his pockets after he was in bed. He had been 23 years in
the service, and had it not been for drunkenness it would not have
occurred. An officer of the regiment gave him a bad character. Mr.
Davies said he had never heard of a more brutal assault in the whole
course of his life; prisoner's whole mind must have been filled with
the "devil." He should therefore sentence him to six months’ hard
labour, and only regretted he could not give him more.
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LICENSEE LIST
ELVY John 1786+
CRUMP Robert 1793+
DODD Mr 1825+
ROGERS Joseph 1828+
RICH George 1832+
GARRETT Matthias Charles 1854+
Universal
British Directory of Trade 1793
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
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