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Northgate
St Gregory
Canterbury
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From the Kentish Gazette, 12 September 1848.
GENERAL LICENSING DAY.
Thursday being the annual licensing day of victuallers, in Canterbury,
the magistrates were occupied some time in making the necessary
preparations, and they granted licenses to a hundred and twenty-seven
persons; four others being absent, will have theirs at a future sitting. The
licenses taken from W. Cullen, "Queen’s Arms"; W. Hunt, "Three
Grenadiers," Military-road; George Roberts, "Queen's
Head," Northgate;
and R. Walpole, "Roebuck," Northgate were restored; and the application
made by J. B. Allen for a license of the
"Golden Cross,"
Northgate was granted.
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Kentish Gazette, 10 September 1850.
On the annual licensing day (Thursday last) our city magistrates
suspended the following licenses:-
"Military Tavern," King Street;
"Eight
Bells," King Street;
"Duke of York," Riding Gate;
"Kentish Arms," Jewry
Lane;
"Eagle," Whitehorse Lane;
"Golden Cross," Northgate;
"Queen's
Head," Northgate;
"City of London," Tower Street;
"Duke's Head," Wincheap;
"True Briton," Northgate;
"Royal George," Northgate;
"Queen's
Arms," Northgate; and
"Three Grenadiers," Military Road.
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Kentish Gazette, 23 September 1851.
CANTERBURY POLICE COURT.—Thursday.
This was an adjourned day for granting licences, there being on the
bench the Mayor, Aldermen Cooper, Brent, and Plummer, and Mr. Sprakeling.
The following licences, which had been deferred for consideration, were
altogether refused:— The "Golden Cross," (M'Cowan).
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From a report to the Mayor and Magistrates in Guildhall
on 17th April 1859.
"Sergeant Ells reports that he found the following number of
Prostitutes at the following public houses and beer-shops yesterday
morning:
"Golden Cross," Northgate, 4.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 10 December 1859.
Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Berry, of the "Golden Cross," Northgate Street,
were charged by Mrs. Reid, with having, on the evening of Tuesday, the
22nd ult. robbing her of a bag containing £14 in gold and 8s. in silver.
It appeared by the evidence of the first witness, who was a servant in
the employ of Mrs. Roberts, that Mrs. Reed owed her sister-in-law 2s.,
in order to pay her, she obtained the assistance of a person, (one
witness said Mrs. Berry, another said Mrs. Reid's niece) to take from
her stays in the bag in which she usually kept her money, after she had
taken from it 2s., she returned the bag into a pocket under her dress,
but according to the statement of another witness, she held it in her
hand, while she danced with one of the company in the room, she was
apparently intoxicated at the time.
Mrs. Reid left the house at ten
o'clock, when she arrived home she discovered that her money was gone,
she immediately went back but the house was closed.
She went the next
morning and found Mr. Roberts at the bar, she told him that she believed
that she had lost her money stating at the same time that she believed
that she had put it away somewhere and her brother saw where it was.
There was a great prevarication in the statements of the witnesses and
after an examination of nearly four hours, the magistrates dismissed the
case.
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South Eastern Gazette,24 January, 1860.
Dispute between two Relieving Officers as to the Chargeability of a
Pauper.
At the Wednesday’s sitting of the city justices, Mr. F. Duly,
relieving officer to the Canterbury Incorporation, stated that on
Monday a young woman named Caroline Fist, a prostitute, applied to
him for relief, stating that she was much diseased and was unable to
work. He questioned her as to her place of abode, and she stated
that she had been living at the "Golden Cross," in the ville of St.
Gregory, and that the previous night she slept at the "Steam
Packet," in North-lane, in the parish of Westgate without. Both
these parishes are in the Blean Union, and therefore ought to be
relieved by the relieving officer of that union. He (Mr. Duly)
should certainly refuse to relieve the pauper, because in several
other instances of a similar nature parties had applied to the
relieving officer of the Blean Union, and in consequence of his
refusal the Canterbury incorporation had been put to the expense of
keeping the paupers. The young woman said she applied to Mr. Mount,
the relieving officer for the Blean Union, for relief, but he
refused to grant her any, and referred her to the relieving officer
of Canterbury. She also stated, in answer to the Mayor, that she had
lived at the "Eight Bells," in King-street, as a prostitute, for ten
months. The relieving officer for the Bleau district said he refused
to grant the applicant relief, because he did not consider there had
been any residence set up. The Bench, however, were of a different
opinion, and the relieving officer of the Blean Union undertook to
attend to the case. The Mayor then expressed, his surprise that the
young woman should have been allowed to remain ten months at the
"Eight Bells" public-house, for the purpose which she had stated; he
therefore directed that the landlord of the house should be sent
for. On his (the landlord’s) arrival, the Mayor said that
circumstances had been brought before the bench which seriously
reflected upon the manner in which he conducted his house. It seemed
that the landlord had been in the habit of harbouring prostitutes in
his house. He could assure him (the landlord) that if better
arrangements were not made by him, his house would assuredly be
indicted. Henry Waller, the landlord of the "Eight Bells," said he
was not aware that girls lodged at his house as prostitutes. The
clerk to the justices informed the bench that Waller’s house was one
among a number of others that were annually reported by the
superintendent for harbouring prostitutes. The Mayor cautioned
Waller as to the way he conducted his house in future, and the
matter then dropped.
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LICENSEE LIST
M'COWEN/McKEOWN Sam 1851+ (age 31 in 1851 )
ROBERTS Mr 1859+
Census
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