DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Monday, 07 November, 2022.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Sportsman's Arms

Latest 1914

The Street

Egerton

Sportsman

Above postcard, pre 1914, kindly sent by Tel Terry.

Former Sportsmans Arms after 1914

Above postcard, after 1914, kindly sent by Tel Terry.

Former Sportsmans Arms 2009

Above Google image, March 2009.

 

Reference has been found in the census of 1861 and it was three doors away from the "George Inn."

After closing in 1914 it subsequently became a garage and is still operating as one today (2022).

 

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 18th July 1914.

East Kent Compensation authority.

Fourteen Licences Considered Two Renewed.

The principal meeting of the East Kent Compensation Authority was held on Wednesday at the Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury. Lord Harris presided and the following licensing justices were present:- Mr. H. Fitzwalter Plumtre, Mr. W. A. Lochee, Mr. F. H. Willbee, Dr. S. R. Alexander, Captain W. T. Down, Mr. R. Grant, Mr. J. H. Monins, and Mr. F. E. Burke.

No opposition offered.

In the case of the following houses no opposition was offered to the licences being referred to compensation.

Ashford Division:- "Sportsmans Arms," Egerton (tenants, W. Wood, jun.; registered owners, Messrs. Shepherd, Neame and Co.)

Home division:- "Bridge House," Hackington (tenant and owner, Alice Kate Yeatman.)

Sittingbourne division:- "Olive Branch," Bordon (tenant, Sydney G. Holman; owners, Messrs. Shepherd, Neame and Co.);

"Edward I" (tenants, Alfred Wyles; owners, Messrs. Style and Winch);

"Anchor and Hope," Upchurch (tenant, J. H. Larcombe; owners, Messrs. F. Leney and Co.)

 

LICENSEE LIST

BAKER James 1861-91+ (listed as an agricultural labourer age 74 in 1881Census)

BUCKMAN William 1901+ (age 70 in 1901Census)

WOOD William jun 1911-14+ (age 36 in 1911Census)

 

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