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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1857-

 Anchor and Hope

Latest 1895+

 

East Wickham

 

Only the one instance of this found at present, but there is an "Anchor and Hope" addressed in Woolwich which could well be the same pub. I also have a "We Anchor in Hope" addressed at Shooters Hill Road in Welling.

 

From the Borough of Greenwich Free Press, 20 June, 1857.

PETTY SESSIONS. June 13th, 1857.

(Before Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart., Chairman ; Major Gosset, Captain Grant, J. Sutton, Esq., and T. Lewin, Esq.)

TRANSFER OF LICENCES.

East Wickham.

"We Anchor in Hope," Elizabeth Finch to Thomas Dorrington.

 

Kent Times, 3 May 1862.

DARTFORD. Petty Sessions, April 26. Before Sir P. H Dyke, Bart., F. M. Lewin, Esq., and W. Arbuthnot, Esq.

Transfer of Licenses.

The license of the "Anchor and Hope," East Wickham, from John Donington to David Garland.

 

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Thursday 11 July 1895.

Alfred Richard Morris, of the "Anchor in Hope" public house, East Wickham, was summoned for selling half a pint of whiskey to j. Tucker, Inspector of Foods and Drugs, on the 5th June, which was 27.4 degrees under proof, or 2.4 below below the legal limit.

Defendant was fined 20s., and costs.

 

LICENSEE LIST

FINCH Elizabeth to 13/June/1857

DORRINGTON Thomas 13/June/1857+

DORRINGTON/DONINGTON John 1861-May/62 (also cattle dealer age 60 in 1861Census)

GARLAND David May/1862+

LYONS William 1871+ (age 46 in 1871Census)

MORRIS Alfred Richard 1895+

 

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