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Seven Star Street
Great Street
  
Dover
A licensed house in 1789 but the address in 1826 and 1832 was reported as Great
Street.
For photo of Seven Star Street
click here.
It was still active in 1840 when an unusual story came to my attention. A
young lad, Richard Dowle, was apprehended during the process of collecting
horse droppings outside the premises. He was fined fourteen shillings and
apparently he was lucky that time. He had previously been gaoled for the
same offence.
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From the Kentish Gazette, November 10 – 13, 1789.
Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.
Auction of a house and shop, November
17, 1789, at the sign of the "Hovelling Boat," in Dover.
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From the Kentish Gazette Oct 1 - 5th 1790.
Mrs Elizabeth COLLINS of
Dover (wife of Mr Edward COLLINS, master of the “Hovelling Boat” public
house) died aged 35.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 23 January, 1810.
BROTHERLY SOCIETY, DOVER.
A General Meeting of the Members of this Society will be held at the
"Hoveling Boat," in Dover, On MONDAY the 29th of this instant, at
six o’clock in the evening, for the purpose of taking the general
State of the Society into consideration; at which Meeting the
presence of every Member is earnestly requested.
Dover, Jan. 22, 1810.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 29 June 1810.
BROTHERLY SOCIETY.
Hovelling Boat, Dover, June 25, 1810
AT the Midsummer Quarterly Meeting of the Brotherly Society held
this evening, it was unanimously resolved, in consequence of the
absence of the Stewards, to adjourn the said meeting until, Monday
Evening, the 9th July next, at the "Hovelling Boat," in Dover
aforesaid, when and where all members of the said society are
desired top attend, in order to take into consideration the affairs
of the Society. And all the said Members are requested to take
notice that they will be required to pay or cause to be paid on that
evening, or within a fortnight from the date thereof, the payments
due at Midsummer Quarter, and any arrears that may remain, in
default of which there names will be erased from the said Society,
and they will be totally excluded from all benefit arising therefrom.
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Kentish Gazette, 3 August, 1821.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By CHARLES LAMB,
AT the "Royal Exchange," Round Tower-street, Dover, on THURSDAY, the
9th day of August, 1821, at six o'clock in the evening, all those
TWO MESSUAGES or TENEMENTS, adjoining each other, with the Grounds
and Appurtenances thereunto respectively belonging, situate lying
and being in Harts Row at the back of the "Hoveling Boat," at the
pier, in Dover, and now in the several occupations of Moses Blythin,
and Stroud Baker.
These premises are held under the usual lease from the Honourable
Warden and Assistants of Dover Harbour, for 61 years, from the 6th
day of April, 1813.
For particulars apply to Mr. James Bell, Attorney at Law, Dover.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 30 January 1838.
Accidents by fire occurred, in the course of last week, at the "Packet
Boat," the "Hovelling Boat," and at Mr. Winter’s, pastrycook,
which might have been attended with serious consequences but for timely
discoveries.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 7 July, 1838.
FATAL ACCIDENT
On Thursday week the miners employed on the South Eastern Railway
works, having placed two heavy charges of gunpowder in the chalk,
required to be blasted, at the top of Round-down cliff, due notice was
given of their being about to be fired; and the first exploded without
injury to any person. The match was then applied to the second, when as
is supposed, the chalk being loosened by the first shot, the splinters
flew to a much greater distance than had been calculated upon, and
spread in a shower over the face of the cliff. The men below ran for
shelter towards the new benchings; but one of them, named Owen Dunn, an
Irishman about 36 years of age, was struck by a piece of chalk on the
head, which knocked him down the side of the bench, and in the fall one
of his arms was broken. He was immediately brought to his lodgings in
Dover, by his comrades and received due surgical attendance, but died on
Sunday from the concussion of the brain.
An inquest was held on Monday at the "Hovelling Boat," before G. T.
Thompson, Esq. Coroner, when a verdict of Accidental death was returned.
The deceased was interred on the following day, followed to the grave by
his brother, and the gangs of workmen to which they belonged.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 15 September, 1838.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT
An inquest was held before G. T. Thompson, Esq., this day week, at
the "Hovelling Boat," on the bodies of Thomas Graffany, aged 64, and
Joseph Brown, 40 years. The unfortunates men who were killed by a fall
of chalk on which they were working, near Shakespeare's cliff, on the
preceding day. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death; but
presented the work as dangerous; and recommended that the cliff should
be cut sloping, in order to give a safer front.
We have heard that another accident, though happily not of a fatal
nature, has since occurred at another part of the works; and in
pursuance of an anxious desire to promote any practicable means of
averting such melancholy occurrences, we beg to submit the following
suggestions from a correspondent, whose station and practice, entitle
them to the consideration of those who direct the dangerous
undertakings.
Me Editor, - The funeral of the late two unfortunate men, who were
killed the other day, passing my lodgings on Sunday; an idea struck me,
that in many situations, men employed as they had been, might be
protected by a shield.
"For instance, take some of the ribs of a ship, and place the keel
ends upwards against the chalk cliff, and let the other ends stand out
twenty, thirty or forty feet. Let these timbers be placed three feet
apart, leaving sufficient room to wheel out the workings between them,
at the bottom. Then let these timbers have bolted across them, some
three inch oak plank, in such a way as to keep them separate from each
other in the way first mentioned. This planking should be completed from
the top, where they pitch against the chalk cliff, down to within 6 or 8
feet of the bottom, thereby forming a sort of lean-to, under which the
men might work in comparative safety. The planks and bolts to be made to
take to pieces; and, as the work advances, take the rear timbers forward
to the front.
"With this simple precaution, should a fall of chalk from some height
take place, this covering would carry it off to a distance from the men
at work." W. F.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 12 December 1840. Price 7d.
It is generally supposed
that a collier belonging to Mr. John Harvey, landlord of the "Hovelling
Boat," is lost, as she has not been heard of for some time. The name of
the vessel is the "Kent," formally a Hoy between this port and London.
(A collier is a ship type or bulk cargo ship
which carried coal and a Hoy is a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a
heavy barge used for freight.)
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From the Dover Express, 17th March, 1863.
DOVER POLICE COURT
The following is a summary of the police intelligence of the week:-
On Tuesday Alexandra Peters, a teacher of languages, was charged before
Mr. Stride with stealing half a crown from a girl named Jane Harvey, in
whose company he had been at the "Hovelling Boat" public-house, Seven
Star Street. The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday when Mr. Fox
appeared for him and he was dismissed.
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LICENSEE LIST
COLLINS Edward 1790+
BARRAS Mrs 1805
BROCKMAN William 1823-39
(Further info)
HARVEY John 1840-41+ (age 50 in 1841 )
BROWN James 1842-43
HOLIMAN/HOLYMAN John 1851+ (also mariner age 26 in 1851)
KEMP Priscilla 1854-55
KEMP William 1857-61 (age 54 in 1861)
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-9
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Pigot's Directory 1839
Census
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