From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 16 January, 1880. Price 1d.

THEY SAY

They say the end of Selbourne Terrace is to be ornamented with a public-house.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 25 September, 1881. 1d.

DOVER ADJOURNED LICENSING SESSIONS

MR. KINGSFORD'S APPLICATION

Mr. Worsfold Mowll said he believed that the Magistrates were going to give their decision in respect to the application made by Mr. Cottenham Kingsford for a license for a house to be constructed on the Clarendon Road. In this case he had prepared:-

Mr. Lewis: I do not wish to object, but my friend has had his reply, and the case is closed, but if the case is to be re-opened I should claim to state further objections in reply. I understood that some effort was being made and I hold in my hand something bearing on the case. It is not for me to say that it is useless our mouths are opened to re-argue the case.

Mr. Worsfold Mowll: I withdraw all remarks and leave it in your Worship's hands.

Mr. Lewis: I wish to go on to say.....

Mr. Mowll: I object. We are both out of Court.

The room was cleared for the Magistrates to consider their decisions, and after a lapse of a quarter of an hour, the Court was reopened.

The Mayor said: I will state the decision of the Committee in order in which they have been taken. The application of Mr. J. C. Bowser for a provisional license for an hotel to be built at Birchington Bay is granted. The application of Mr. J. Burridge, of Station Road, Westgate-on-Sea, is granted, and the application of Mr. Cottenham Kingsford for a house to be built on Clarendon Road Dover, is granted.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 23 March, 1888.

STRANGE DEATH OF A CHILD

An inquest was held before the Borough Coroner (Sydenham Payn, Esq.), on Wednesday afternoon at the “Malvern Hotel”, Clarendon Road, touching the death on an infant, 2 months old, the illegitimate child of Amelia Harris, 17 years of age a single woman. The following gentleman composed the Jury. Messrs J. C. Gilman, J. W. Wiles, W. Goodiff, J. G. Rowley, F. Everest, E. R. Terry, R. Turner, J. Dungey, W. Goldsack, G. J. Pilcher, J. J. Bowman, W. Davidson and C. Rogers. Mr. W. Goodiff was chosen foreman of the Jury, after viewing the body, which was lying at 124 Clarendon Street, the residence of the grandmother of the deceased the following evidence was taken:-

Charlotte Jane Smith, wife of Robert Smith a gunner in the Royal Artillery stationed at Dover Castle said: I live at 124 Clarendon Street. The body the Jury have viewed is that of Robert Henry Harris, aged 2 months, son of my daughter Amelia Harris, a single woman. The mother who is 17 years of age and was in the employ of Mr. Peter Jones, draper of 2 Sloane Square, Kings Road, Chelsea, as kitchen-maid, came to my house at 16 Clyde Street Sheerness, on the 19th of December last to be confined , the child being born on the 19th January. The mother remained about a month after her confinement at my house, and then went into another situation. I took entire charge of the child from its birth, with the intention of adopting it as my own. The infant was born with a cough, and was a very thin baby. It had the thrush very badly when it was a fortnight old. I fed the baby on new nursery milk which I diluted with water, and corn flour, and that has been its principal food since it was born. During the first month the child did not seem to make any progress. I left Sheerness and came to Dover on the 17th or 18th of February with the child, and took a house at 124, Clarendon Street. My husband lives in the Dover Castle, and is a servant to an officer. I fed the child on the same food at Dover, as I had done before, but varied it with arrowroot occasionally. The child did not seem to get any bigger. I noticed a change in the child between Friday night and Saturday morning, which was in a state of perspiration. On Saturday evening I gave a boy, who was in the street, 6d. to go for a doctor, as the child did not seem to improve, but I do not know whether the boy did go for a doctor as no doctor came, and I waited some time. On Sunday morning, as I could not leave the child and go out myself, as the baby had had convulsions, and I being a perfect stranger in Dover, I asked the milkman to fetch a doctor, but afterwards asked a neighbour to go for a doctor and he went about 11.30 a.m. and Doctor Osborn arrived at 12.30, and the baby was then just recovering from a fit of convulsions. The deceased took its food on Saturday night. The child expired shortly after the doctor arrived. I fed the child twice a day on corn flour and it drank nearly half a pint of milk a day. The deceased was properly and sufficiently fed according to its age.

The Coroner: What age is your daughter?

Witness: Seventeen years of age last birthday.

The Coroner: It is a matter that the Police must take cognizance of, as the mother is now only 17 years of age.

Witness in answer to the Coroner stated that she had seen the father of the child on one occasion when visiting her daughter, and he was then porter at the same place of business.

The Coroner here instructed Police Sergt. Harman to report the case to the Superintendent of police, and stated that the father of the child would be proceeded against for the offence he committed, when the girl was not over 16 years of age.

Mr. A. G. Osborn said that he was called shortly after 12 a.m. on Sunday, to go to 124, Clarendon Street. He went at once, and there saw the deceased in the lap of the grandmother, and breathing very faintly. He administered some stimulant, but the child died a few minutes after. From the appearance of the child and from the evidence, witness was of opinion that the child died from emaciation, the artificial food not being sufficiently nourishing. Mr. Osborn also said that he believed the child might have lived if it had had earlier attention and been properly prescribed for. A change in diet might have prolonged life.

The Coroner briefly summed up the facts of the case, after which the Jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony.

From the Dover Express, Friday 20 August, 1926.

Special Sessions for the transfer of licences were held at the Dover Police Court on Friday, before Messrs. W. B. Brett, T. Francis, H. J, Burton, and S. Lewis, when the following transfers were made:-

The "Malvern," Clarendon Rd., from Mr. Joseph Cone to Mr. Francis Albert Martin, late of the "New Commercial Quay," Dover.

Dover Express 15th July 1949.

Town, Port and Garrison.

The death took place suddenly at 41, The Tene, Baldock, recently of Mr. Richard Hawkins, aged 46, the son of Mr. & Mrs. R. Hawkins of 9 Mayfield Gardens, formerly of the "Malvern Hotel." He went to work at the S.E.R.L. Laboratories, Baldock, as maintenance electrician about 15 months ago, after having worked at the dockyard for many years. He had gone to bed and, complaining of not feeling well, got up and went into the garden, where he collapsed and died from heart trouble. He leaves a wife and young son.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 27 June 1958.

He Offered to Fight

Spent Night in the Cell

When Police were called to Clarendon Road on June 13th they found a group of six people outside the "Malvern" public house.

The Police asked the group to disperse, but one of them - Alan McGuire, of 27, Clarendon Road - shouted abuse and offered to fight.

Still declining to go home, he said to the constables: "If you arrest me I'll spit on both of you..."

He was arrested, and spent the night in a cell. Dover magistrates were told this on Friday when McGuire - serving on the "Kinbrace" - admitted being drunk and disorderly. He was fined £2.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 4 October, 1963.

Members of the "Malvern" Sports Club held their annual outing on Sunday - a trip round Kent.

Above photo kindly sent by Ken Burnett, who says the names of the people in the photo are as follows:- Left, Edgar Hewett from Shepherdswell, the landlady, Mrs Price, Georgina Higgins and her mother Mrs. Field both have fur coats on. Milly Hewish is the woman in the white hat. Then comes Geoff Goldsack and Mr. and Mrs. Dobson, who were relations of Dobsons the bakers. Behind them is a woman unknown and just behing Mrs. Dobson on the right is Roddie Allan. The woman with the mans hand on her shoulders is also unknown, that man being Rodney Doolin who unfortunately died in the "Butcher's Arms." From the left now, is Dennis Smith and behind him the landlord, Aubrey Price. Third from right is Wilf Dixon, Mick Doolin and Pat Clark and his girlfriend. Standing behind him is Johnny Appleton.

From the Dover Express, 2 October, 2008.

WINTER DARTS LEAGUE GETS UNDERWAY

THIS week is the start of the Dover Friday Night Invitation Darts League, and the competition continues to grow with a record 32 teams registered this season.

At the recent registration evening players from the league voted on which charity the league will support for the next year with the vote going unanimously to the Pilgrims Hospice and their three sites at Canterbury, Ashford and Thanet.

The Malvern will be aiming to win back to back titles, in a highly competitive first division.