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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1783-

Castle Inn

Latest 1880

24 Castle Street / St. Mary Street

Canterbury

Castle Inn

Above photo, date unknown.

Castle location 2017

Above photo, October 2017, by Rory Kehoe.

Canterbury map 1874

Above map 1874 identified by Rory Kehoe.

 

Not to be confused for the "Castle Hotel" addressed about 200 yards from here at number 30-31 Castle Street.

The Canterbury Historical Association booklet on Castle Street says the following:- 24, Castle Street - Old-established inn, on the corner of Castle Street and St. Mary's Street which seems to have closed in the 1870s. In 1792 the licensee was Edward Minter. The current building is not the original "Castle Inn." In the 1920s the "Castle" became the location for the Castle Motor & Engineering Works.

 

Kentish Gazette, 12 April, 1783.

By Auction.

To be Let on Lease, the "Castle Alehouse", in Castle Street, Canterbury.

The auction will begin at the said house on Tuesday, the 15th instant, between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening.

 

Kentish Gazette, 19 April 1803.

To be LETT AUCTION, By GEORGE HAMMOND,

On the premises, on Tuesday the 26th instant, April, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the term of 21 years from Michaelmas next, agreeable to conditions that will be then and then produced.

THE "GEORGE" PUBLIC-HOUSE, with out buildings and some fixtures, and a piece of land behind the same, now used as a tan yard, situate in the parish of Holy Cross Westgate Without.

And on the same day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the term of 21 years, from Lady Day, 1803, The "CASTLE" Public House on the premises, in Castle-street, in the city of Canterbury. Canterbury, 19th April, 1803.

 

Kentish Gazette 11th August 1835.

 which reported "...the death of Mr T Ramsden (formerly landlord of the Castle Inn, in this city) on 2nd August 1835 in Church Lane, Canterbury, after a lingering illness..."

 

LICENSEE LIST

RAMSDEN T Mr pre 1835

SHARP Charles 1824-Sept/60 dec'd (age 60 in 1851Census) Pigot's Directory 1824Pigot's Directory 1828-29Pigot's Directory 1832-34Stapletons GuidePigot's Directory 1840Bagshaw's Directory 1847

SHARP Catherine 17/Sept/1860 dec'd (aged 67) Historic Canterbury web site

BECK Sarah A 1861+ (age 42 in 1861Census)

BEEK William 1862+ Post Office Directory 1862

BECK Sarah 1864+

ROBINS James H Nov/1866-71+ (age 50 in 1871Census) Greens Canterbury Directory 1868

LESTER John 1874+ Post Office Directory 1874

JOYNER Richard to Nov/1879 Next pub licensee had South Eastern Gazette

WAGHORN Joseph Nov/1879+ (age 50 in 1881Census) South Eastern Gazette

 

Pigot's Directory 1824From the Pigot's Directory 1824

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

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

Stapletons GuideStapleton's Guide 1838

Pigot's Directory 1840From the Pigot's Directory 1840

Bagshaw's Directory 1847From Bagshaw Directory 1847

Post Office Directory 1862From the Post Office Directory 1862

Greens Canterbury Directory 1868Greens Canterbury Directory 1868

Post Office Directory 1874From the Post Office Directory 1874

CensusCensus

 

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