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Sort file:- Chatham, June, 2021.

Page Updated:- Friday, 25 June, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1790-

 Crown and Anchor

Latest 1838+

 

Chatham

 

Further research of the "Crown and Anchor" situated in the High Street suggests to me that there was another Crown and Anchor" unfortunately location unknown that was operating at the same time. I may be wrong but the licensing records appear to overlap indicating two licensees names at the same time, plus the fact that information suggests that the High Street "Crown and Anchor" may have been destroyed by fire in 1872 and prior to that may have been called the "Malt Shovel" only being renamed after rebuilding. Hence, this "Crown and Anchor" predates the other one.

However, the licensee list below I do not yet know which "Crown and Anchor" it refers to.

 

Kentish Gazette, 23 November, 1792.

Extract of a letter from Chatham, Nov. 19.

"A few days since, a waiter at the "Crown and Anchor" public house, drank some oil of vitriol, which a gentleman's servants had brought into the house and thought it was Hollands and water; when the mistake was discovered, he drank a glass of Brandy to put the disagreeable taste of the other out of his mouth; and soon found the fatal effects, and not withstanding immediate assistance, he died in three days afterwards in great agonies.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

GURR John 1790 dec'd

GURR M 1793+ Trade Directory 1793

JAYES E J 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29

BONNIWELL William 1832+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

HILLS William 1838+ Wright's Topography 1838

 

Trade Directory 1793Universal British Directory of Trade 1793

Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Wright's Topography 1838Wright's Topography 1838

 

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