EFFINGHAM ARMS Pubs of Dover

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Sort file:- Dover, September, 2021.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 29 September, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Barry Smith and Paul Skelton

Earliest 1854

Effingham Arms

Latest 1867

(Name to)

32 Townwall Street

Dover

On a corner with Wall Passage and kept by Mrs. Walls in 1854. Its closure was the result of misdemeanours in 1862.

The Dover telegraph of May 1858 advertised the premises to be let and the following advert was placed:-

From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 22 May, 1858. Price 4d.

TO BE LET

A FREE PUBLIC-HOUSE, called the "EFFINGHAM ARMS," Townwall Street, the present Owner Retiring from Business.

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 12 September, 1863.

ANNUAL LICENSES

At the last annual renewal of licenses, the license for the "Effingham Arms," Townwall Street, was refused, on the grounds of its having been kept in a disorderly manner. The landlord had accordingly let the house, which had been taken by Thomas Taylor, late of the "Antwerp Tap," who now applied for the renewal of the license. The application was granted, but as it appeared a great many complaints were made as to the manner of conducting the "Antwerp Tap," when kept by Taylor, the Bench cautioned him as to his future conduct.

Taylor left the "Antwerp Tap" to reopen the following year and must have made a success of it. The new sign from or by 1867, was "The Sussex Arms".

LICENSEE LIST

BALL Benjamin 1847