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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1840s

 Fruiterers Arms

Latest 1853+

(Name to)

 

Murston

 

Only found this in 1853 to date, with the licensee being a Mr Philip Hammond.

I do know of a Phillip Hammond being the licensee of the "Golden Ball" in 1861, and he was described as also being a grocer, I am going to assume that this in one and the same pub and that he changed its name somewhere between 1853 and 1861.

In which case this was part of a ten-acre farm dating from c.1650. Known as Golden Ball Orchard, the farm was purchased by Smeed Dean in 1890, by which time the farmhouse had traded as a beershop for nearly fifty years, a tap room having been installed in the 1840s.

 

South Eastern Gazette, 25 October 1853.

Philip Hammond, of the "Fruiterers" beer-shop in Murston, pleaded guilty to in information preferred against him by Mr. Boyd, the superintending constable, for having his house open for the sale of beer, on Sunday morning. The defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and costs.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

HAMMOND Philip 1853+ Next pub licensee had

 

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