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Guildhall Street
Canterbury
Above photo, date unknown, showing licensees George and Elizabeth
Oakenfull, kindly sent by Roger Woodman, who says this could have been
their wedding photo. They were married on the 10 April 1838.
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Above location identified on the 1874 map by Rory Kehoe. |
Only reference to this so far is from Stapleton's
Guide of 1838. This was probably the tap to the hotel of the same name.
Guildhall Street being also on the corner of the High Street, where the "Guildhall
Family and Commercial Hotel" is addressed.
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Canterbury Weekly, 29 April, 1837.
On Tuesday afternoon, the inhabitants of Guildhall Street, in the
city, were thrown into a state of alarm and confusion, in
consequence of a report that a man had been killed in the "Guildhall
Tap."
Upon enquiry, it appeared, that two young men, named Archer and
Phipps, had been quarrelling, when the latter, after being much
irritated by the former, seized the poker and inflicted a most of
severe wound on his head.
The violence of the blow deprived him, for a time, of reason, and
the police were compelled to strap him to a shutter upon which they
can feed him to the workhouse, completely drenched in blood.
Phipps was yesterday fully committed for trial, at the next
Sessions.
Archer's skull not being fractured, it is hoped he will recover.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 15 August 1837.
TO BE LET.
THE GUILDHALL TAP, in the City of CANTERBURY.
Apply on the Premises.
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Canterbury Weekly, 4 November, 1837.
On Friday week Mr. Jones, of the "Guildhall Tavern," lost a cheque
for £285, and notes, off Messrs. Hammond and Co's bank, to the
amount of £80 more. He immediately offered a reward of £20 for the
recovery of the money which was restored to him on Saturday. The
check was picked up by a pieman, who takes his stand every night at
the corner of St. Margarets, and who was ignorance of its value till
he heard the crier; and the money was found a short distance from
the bank by a country man. The reward was divided between the two
lucky finders, who much delighted with their good fortune.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 8 July 1839.
TO LET. THE GUILDHALL TAP.
Apply on the Premises. July 8, 1839.
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LICENSEE LIST
JONES Mr 1837+
HUBBLE John 1838
OAKENFALL George 1838-47+
Stapleton's
Guide 1838
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
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