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183 Beach Street
201 Beach Street
Deal
Above photo shows the former "Deal Lugger" of Beach Street, photograph
kindly sent to me by R. F. Goodship and taken in November 2008. |
Mentioned as early as 1858. The pub is obviously named after the Deal boats of the same name. The
Luggers were designed and made suitable for use off the steep shingle banks
and were the for-runners of the lifeboats. Fitted for speed, strength and
seaworthiness, salvage, rescue and supply duties, and also smuggling, their
design was developed from experience and they were built in the town by a
skilled core of craftsmen. The Luggers, weighed up to 30 tons, followed by
smaller Cat-boats and gradually decreasing in size down through Galley Punts
and Galleys to the smallest, the lowly paddle punts and skiffs.
Above is shown the Deal Lugger, "Early Morn" and crew who rescued
Twenty-Four of the Sailors and Passengers of the S.S. Strathclyde when
run down by the S.S. Franconia, off Dover. February 17th, 1876.
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Kentish Gazette, Tuesday, 3 June, 1862.
Deal Petty Sessions.
Thursday. (Before Thomas Parker, Esq., Major. S. Pritchard, J. Iggulden,
E. Brown, and William Nethersole, Esqs.)
William Dunbar, keeper of the "Deal Lugger" beer house, at the North end
of Deal, was charged on the information of Lieutenant Long, R. M., with
keeping his house open for the sale of beer from 11 to 1 o'clock on
Sunday, 25th of May.
Dunbar pleaded guilty to the charge but said he considered himself
hardly dealt with, as others in the neighbourhood did the same thing,
and he found it difficult to eject his customers.
The Magistrates informed Dunbar that they were of necessity compelled to
inflict a fine for a breach of the law whenever such charges were
brought before them. As it was the first appearance of defendant before
the court, the fine, in this instance would be mitigated to 5s., and
10s., costs, with 7 days to pay.
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From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury,
11 September, 1869. 1d.
ANNUAL LICENSING DAY
Mr. G. E. Norris, of the "Deal Lugger," again applied for a spirit
license, and urged the Bench to grant his application upon the ground
that he frequently had to get up in the middle of the night to serve men
who had just come on shore, which rendered it very necessary that he
should have some spirits in the house.
The Magistrates consulted upon the matter for some time, after which
the Mayor said they had considered the application, and were very
reluctant to disappoint the applicant. There was very great competition
in the neighbourhood, and the Magistrates were very reluctant to
increase the competition by adding to the number of the houses. They
were very sorry, however, for they all knew Mr. Norris to be a
respectable, hard-working, and industrious man.
Mr. Norris then applied for the renewal of his beer license, which
was immediately granted.
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From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury, 13th Jan. 1870.
GEORGE EDWARD NORRIS, Landlord of the Deal Lugger, was charged with having his
house open for sale of beer during the prohibited hours on Sunday last.
The case was dismissed, but NORRIS was cautioned to be careful in
future.
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From the Whitstable Times, 8 October, 1870.
William Norris, landlord of the “Deal Lugger” was charged with keeping
his house open during divine service, on Sunday, the 18th. The case was
adjourned from last Thursday. Police Constable Cox proved the case. The
defendant informed the Bench, that the persons at the bar were boatmen,
who had been at sea during the whole night; having earned £l. they asked
for change, which his wife gave them, and during the time, Cox came in.
The Bench fined the defendant 3s.
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From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury,
25 February, 1871. 1d.
SELLING WITHIN THE PROHIBITED HOURS
Mrs. Norris, landlady of the "Deal Lugger," beer-shop, Beach Street,
was summoned, on the information of Supt. Parker, for having her house
open at half-past one on the morning of Tuesday last. The offence was
admitted in this case, the defendant alleging in mitigation that she
went into hysterics about half-past ten on the evening in question, and
remained so till about half-past one, when she went to the front door
and called in P.C. Seeth to clear her house. There was no one present to
take charge of the business during the time she was ill, for although
her daughter-in-law who lives near had run to her assistance she knew
nothing of the business. She was subject to hysterics, and on the
evening in question she had had a great many persons in and had been
rather upset, and it was still but a very short time since she had lost
her poor husband. P.C. Seeth said he was called by Mrs. Norris to clear
her house, as described, and she certainly appeared to be very ill at
the time - and was hardly able to keep herself up. There were five
persons standing at the bar, but there was no drink before them.
Supt. Parker said they were the same parties that P.C. Cox had turned
out of the "Star" where they were trying to get up a row a short time
before. The office of the coastguard-station had complained of the "Deal
Lugger" the same evening.
After a long deliberation the Magistrates dismissed the case on the
ground that the illness of the defendant incapacitated her from
controlling her business, but informed her that they should expect her,
in future, to provide such assistance as would secure the house being
well conducted.
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Dover Express 16 February 1906.
DEAL PROPOSED REDUCTION OF LICENCES.
At the Deal Licensing Sessions on Thursday last week, the Mayor
announced that, owing to the superfluity of licensed houses in Deal, the
following licences would be recommended to the Quarter Sessions for
extinction: The "Hope Inn," the "Maxton Arms," the "Deal Lugger," the
"Deal Cutter," and the "Sun" and
"Globe."
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From the Canterbury Journal and Farmers' Gazette, Saturday 6 October, 1906.
On Tuesday the Committee settled the compensation to be paid to the
owners and tenants of some of the houses, the licenses of which had been
taken away. The following figures were agreed upon:-
"Deal Lugger,"
Deal £548.
To the owners (Messrs. Beer and Co., Canterbury) £495.
To the Tenant. (George Ralph Erridge). £53.
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Aren't the Council sticklers for red tape! Just found a planning
application for what is described as "Deal Lugger 201 Beach Street" dated
Monday 15 August 2011. The Council have insisted that a retrospective
application should be asked for the removal of render and black bitumen
paint to the side elevation. It's not only funny that the pub closed over
100 years ago and no longer goes under this name, but also that on Thursday
3 July 2003 there was a proposal for the painting of the external wall in
Cornish cream coloured textured masonry paint. I'm going to assume this was
regarding the same wall. November 2011 the application was finally granted.
Not sure what would have happened had it been refused. Would they have to
have put it back on again?
LICENSEE LIST
JARVIS Elizabeth 1858+
DURBAN/DUNBAR William Covell 1861-62+ (ale house keeper age 27 in 1861 )
FINNIS Miss M 1862+
NORRIS Mr George Edward 1869-70 dec'd
NORRIS Harriett Mrs 1871+ (age 41 in 1871)
SMITH R D 1872+
 beerhouse
PARKER Thomas 1874+
NORRIS Grove Ralph 1878-82+
BROWN Richard Petty 1891+ (age 65 in 1891)
ALLEN Amos 1899+
ERRIDGE George Ralph to Dec/1906
1903 beerhouse George Beer & Co brewers (DLR)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/DealLugger.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/deallugger.html
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Kelly's Directory 1862
From the Kelly's Directory 1874
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From the Kelly's Directory 1899
Deal Licensing Register
The Old Pubs of Deal and Walmer by Glover and Rogers
From the Deal Walmer & Sandwich Mercury
Census
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