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Over the Sluice in 1823
 
Snargate Street
Dover
Police reports mention a pub with the sign in Limekiln Street in 1844 and it
is known that Tom Williams served from such a house in Snargate Street in
1855. Another traded from Union Street 1792-1838 and Easton served from
another in 1805 but I have no address, it could have been any of the above
or indeed another as yet unknown.
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Kentish Post or Canterbury News, Dec. 7 to 10. 1748. Kindly sent from
Alec Hasenson.
Sale of a privateer at Mr. Thomas Allen's, at the King's Arms in Dover,
December 19. 1748.
I can only assume that the above is from this pub,
but with others of the same name in the same area, or indeed the same
pub but with differing addresses through the time, this certainly
pre-dates any other mention I have of this establishment, so far.
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From an email received 17 February 2008.
I
can add something on the 'King Arms' pub, from a ship sale
reported in the Kentish Gazette, this was published in their issue of
Friday March 31 to Tuesday, April 4, 1786, (it was published every four days).
It states that the sale took place on Thursday, the 6th of April at four
o'clock in the afternoon at Mr. Robert Sims's, at the sign of the King's
Arms in Dover, of a cutter called the Two Brothers. The auctioneer was
Edward Rutter, Bench Street, Dover.
I will no doubt find more for you, either in one of my many notes books
or transcripts, or as I go along with my researches, which primarily
concern Dover Harbour and its shipping, and anything related to it.
Best wishes
Alec Hasenson
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From the Kentish Gazette, 14 January 1834. Price 7d.
DOG FOUND.
ABOUT a fortnight since a NEWFOUNDLAND DOG followed a Stage Coach from
Dartford, or its neighbourhood, to Dover, whoever has lost the same may
have it again by describing it and paying the expenses of keep, &c. on
applying at the “King's Arms Inn,” Dover.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 27 January, 1855. Price 5d.
Thomas Williams, of the "King's Arms," Snargate Street, was summoned
for keeping his house open at an hour on Sunday not allowed by law; but
the evidence was not sufficiently conclusive, and the case was dismissed
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LICENSEE LIST
ALLEN Thomas 1748+
SIMMS Robert 1786-93
EASTON 1805
WILLIAMS Thomas 1823-55+
Different pub I think
CANNABY John 1832-39
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HOUGHTON Isaac 1838?
Dover and Deal Directory and Guide 1792
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Pigot's Directory 1839
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