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Hillreach
Woolwich
The pub was demolished prior to 1901 and a new pub was built on the site
called the "Village Blacksmith."
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From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 29 December, 1855.
Thomas Hawkins, landlord of the "Soldier’s Rest," beer-shop,
Hill-street, was summoned at the instance of James Price, inspector
of the A division of police, and also inspector of Common Lodging
Houses, for neglecting to register his house as required by the Act.
Police-sergeant Linvell, of the A division, proved that on the
morning of the 1st inst, he went to the defendant’s house, and found
in the first room a man and his wife, paying 3s. 6d. per week, and a
female paying 6d. per night; and in another room two beds, one being
occupied by two men paying 6d. per night, and the other by a man and
his wife, paying 1s. per night; there was no partition in this room.
The defendant pleaded that he did not know that he was obliged to
register, but it was proved that the usual notice had been given to
the defendant, and he was then fined 20s. and costs.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 20 April, 1861.
SUICIDE OF AN ARTILLERYMAN AT WOOLWICH.
Wednesday afternoon Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an
inquiry at the “Gun Tavern,” New-road Woolwich, into the circumstances
attending the death of Quarter-master Sergeant Robert Mumford, Royal
Artillery, who, it was alleged, had committed suicide by taking poison.
The evidence proved that, on the previous Saturday, the deceased went to
a public-house named the “Soldiers' Rest,” where he was found in a slate
of insensibility, and conveyed to the Royal Ordnance Hospital. He was
promptly attended by Dr. Duff, but died shortly after his admission into
the institution. The deceased had purchased two separate quantities of morphia at the shop of Mr. Shipman, chemist, a few days previous to his
death, and the appearance presented by a post mortem examination led to
the conclusion that resulted from poison. After some conversation
between the coroner and jury it was considered advisable to obtain an
analysis of the contents of the stomach by an eminent authority, and the
inquest was adjourned for that purpose.
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HAWKINS Thomas 1855+
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