St Dunstan

Canterbury

Above pewter mug with hallmark Crown VR 42? This would probably be VR 427 indicating stamped in the Borough of Cambridge during the reign of Queen Victoria. Kindly sent by Adrian Coulling.

Pewter mug engraved G W, who would more than likely have been the licensee.

Base of pewter mud engraved with the words "Victoria Inn St Dunstan's Canterbury."

Another new one to me and this is the only reference I have so far.

Rory Kehoe says the following:- The wear to the tankard slightly obscures things but I have little doubt that the stamps were the small crown, VR and 42, presumably for 1842. (No, location mark unfortunately. Paul Skelton.) That all fits with Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837. It also fits with the proliferation of new pubs and billet licences in the couple of decades following the 1830 Beerhouse Act, which deregulated the retailing of beer.

If this is not one of the other known "Victoria's", it was likely a small, possibly short-lived, beerhouse.

There exists the chance that this pub pre-dates 1842 but was called something else until 1837.

Perhaps this should be a new pub but very much pending further information. I'll add this one to my list of pubs which I need to chase, when next I'm in the Cathedral Archives.

Rory Kehoe.

LICENSEE LIST

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