NORTH STAR Pub of Ramsgate

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Sort file:- Ramsgate, March, 2023.

Page Updated:- Monday, 13 March, 2023.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Michael Mirams & Paul Skelton

30 Apr 1915

North Star

Open 2015+

162 Margate Road (82 Dumpton Road)

Dumpton

Ramsgate

Above Google image, July 2015.

This pub has been found by author and historian Michael David Mirams, who says the premises was tied to Whitbread's in the 1960s after being Tomson and Wotton. He infers that this may well still be the off-licence that is now addressed as 126, Margate Road and still goes under the name of the "North Star." He goes on to say that the license may well have been transferred from an Inn situated in Trinity Square, Reading Street, Broadstairs, also called the "North Star" that was destroyed by fire in 1908, when a young child decided to check whether it was raining by holding a candle out of an upper window. The roof being thatched caught fire.

Further information received from Tony Overden says the following:- "I have a draft lease dated 30th April 1915 that following the death of Frank Spinner the leaseholder of a shop and dwelling on the corner of St David's Avenue with Hereson Road, Ramsgate. The leasehold was sold as probate to Tomsom & Wotton by George Spinner on the 30th April 1915. The premises then became known as the North Star.

From the Thanet Advertiser and Broadstairs and St. Peters Echo, 4 December 1920.

MESSRS. HIND AND SON. RAMSGATE AND CANTERBURY.

By order of the Exors. of the late E. J. Newby deceased.

Sale of Freehold Properties at the Congregational Hall, George Street, on Thursday December 9th, 1920, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon exact time....

The "North Star," No. 82 Dumpton Road, with Off Licence....

From the Thanet Advertiser and Broadstairs and St. Peters Echo, 27 January, 1923.

SALE ON THURSDAY NEXT.

Messrs. Hinds & Son have been favoured with instructions to offer for sale by public auction, on Thursday, February 1st, 1923, in the Congregational Hall, Ramsgate, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The following properties:- The Free Off-Licence, "The North Star," Dumpton Road, with vacant possession.

From the Thanet Advertiser and Echo, 11 March 1949.

Mr. Allfree also made application for a full off-licence to replace a beer and wine off-licence at the "North Star," Margate-road.

After the licensee, Mr. Stanley William George, had told the bench that 600 people had asked him for spirits, the application was granted.

LICENSEE LIST

GEORGE Stanley William 1949+

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