CLARENCE INN Pubs of Canterbury

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Sort file:- Canterbury, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1871-

Clarence Inn

Latest 1871+

White Horse Lane

Canterbury

Nothing known about this at present apart for a little information passed to be from Dr Keith Marshall who is tracing his family tree and who says that the census of 1871 show a Hen(e)ry William(s) being the licensee of the "Clarence Inn" addressed as White Horse Lane.

It is also mentioned in the Canterbury Journal of 16 September 1871 in the report on the Licensing Meeting. Among several other pubs. The superintendent of Police reports the Clarence Inn as being one of several pubs named where prostitutes were kept.

Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette, Saturday 16 September 1871.

Annual Licensing Meeting.

The Superintendent of Police reported to the Magistrates the following houses where prostitutes were kept, viz., the "Roebuck," "True Briton," "Lord Clyde," "Princess Royal," "Crown and Anchor," "Brewers' Delight," "Clarence Inn," and "Kentish Arms," and on the applicants applying they were each cautioned in severe terms by the Mayor, and on their promising to behave better in future the licences were renewed. The business was transacted rapidly. The adjourned sessions are fixed for the 21st instant.

LICENSEE LIST

WILLIAMS Henery 1871+

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