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13 (7) Sun Street (Butter Market 1838 )
Canterbury
Above photo, circa 1890. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, circa 1905, showing the "Market Hall Inn" on the left.
Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Bushell, Watkins & Smith's Westerham Ales were on
offer. |
Above photo, circa 1905. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photographs of the Market Hall show it on the left, date unknown
and on the right as the Chemists. Pictures taken from the Historic
Canterbury web site www.machadoink.com |
Above photo, 1921, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Canterbury's City War
Memorial was unveiled on 10th October 1921, by Field Marshal Douglas
Haig, with Archbishop Randall Davidson officiating. Immediately behind
the memorial, yet to receive its war casualties' name plates, is the
former "Market Hall," which had closed its doors shortly before WW1. A
few months after this photograph was taken, the building was taken over
and occupied by Mssrs. Walker & Harris, who traded as photographic
chemists. |
The numbering has changed on this street.
In 1865 a fire that started on the High Street damaging part of the "Bell
Hotel" destroyed the original building.
By 1922 the building was operating as Walker & Harris Ltd., Photographic
Chemists.
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Kent Herald, 4 December 1845.
Canterbury Petty sessions. Guildhall.
(Before the Mayor and Magistrates.)
Dec. 1. On Monday last, a seafaring man, named Philip Taylor, was brought before
the Mayor and sitting Magistrates, charged on suspicion of having fraudulently
obtained five pound of Mr. Miles, the landlord of the "Market Hall Tavern" and
Eating-house, under the following singular circumstances, as stated by the
complainant:-
Taylor, in company with another person, named Austey, who was previously known
to Miles, entered the latter's shop on Thursday last and asked for change for a
ten pound note. Miles said he would procure it for him, but defendant said he
did not care about having the whole of the change then, as a sovereign would be
as much as he then wanted, and taking him from his pocket of purse, tied it up
in a piece of paper, and gave it in care of complainant, representing that it
contains a ten pound note, and received one pound in part of change, and on the
following day he obtained three pound more; and up to Sunday he had had off
Miles five pounds on which day, and not till the above sum had been advanced,
had the perse or its content been examined; when Mrs. Miles was induced to take
a peep, and, to her surprise, discovered that the purse had no ten pound note
enclosed within it. The defendant shortly after this again made his appearance
at the bar, and requested a further advance of cash upon his alleged deposit,
but the source of the worthy host's credulity had "ceased to flow," and Taylor
was ultimately taken into custody, charged with having obtained the five pounds
under false pretences. Defendant, as a matter of course, said he believed he had
a ten pound note in the purse when he gave it to Mr. Miles, but was not quite
sure, as he might have lost it previously; at all events he did not wish to
wrong the complainants, and was willing to pay back the five pound advanced as
soon as he was able, but that was not the case then, as, when he was apprehended
he had only a few pence in his pocket, but a profuse supply of admission tickets
to Alger's dancing booth, at Dover fair, where it appeared he had been enjoying
himself with the fruits of Miles's benevolence.
The magistrates, after duly consulting together, dismissed the case, although,
they said, it was one of strong suspicion, yet the complainant had not used
sufficient precautions throughout the transaction to attach a charge of felony
against Taylor.
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Kentish Gazette, 24 February 1857.
A Silent Member.
A young fellow with a jaunty and indifferent sort of air, giving the
name of John King, and stating himself to be a seaman, was brought
up on suspicion of being a deserter. At an early hour in the morning
he accosted Constable Holloway, as to his knowledge of a Mrs. King
keeping Market House; but the constable knew no such house - only
"Market Hall," which prisoner said was not the place, and that perhaps
his mother was dead as he had been absent seventeen years, — and
from other matters which transpired, about prisoner saying his
mother formerly lived there, he was induced to take him into custody
on suspicion of having deserted from a regiment at Dover. A message
laving been sent thither, a reply was received of such a person
having deserted from the 42nd five years ago, when lying at
Stirling, but nothing further was elicited to ground the suspicious
of the policeman; and the prisoner refusing to give any account of
himself, there was no alternate but to discharge him. On leaving
the bar, he expressed his regret that he never had been a soldier, —
for the very good reason that he was disabled by a palpitation of
the heart. One of the magistrates stated that he remembered a person
named King keeping a coffee-shop in the neighbourhood indicated 15
or 16 years ago.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 17 January 1865.
Charge of Theft against a Domestic Servant.
On Tuesday, at the City Police Court, before the Right Worshipful
the Mayor (Peter Marten, Esq.), and W. Masters, Esq., a domestic
servant named Eliza Widley, in the employ of Joseph Parker, of the
"Market Hall," was charged with stealing a key and a piece of print,
value 2s., the property of her master.
Mr. Delasaux appeared for the prosecutor.
Mrs. Parker, wife of the prosecutor, deposed that the prisoner
had been in her service about fifteen months. On Wednesday she asked
far a holiday for two days, which was granted her, but instead of
returning on Friday she did not come back till Monday, when she told
the prisoner she was to leave her service. The prisoner went away
and said she would call for her box in the afternoon. Between four
and five o’clock in the afternoon the prisoner called for her box,
when witness told her she desired to look in her box, but the
prisoner refused. She said she would fetch a policeman, when the
prisoner answered, "I'll save you the trouble; I'll fetch one
myself." Prisoner then apparently locked her box, but the hasp did
not catch the bolt, and then left. On the prisoner’s, return with a
policeman, she went upstairs with them, and the prisoner commenced
to take her things out of the box. Witness saw a chemise and a
dress, which she knew to belong to her daughter, in the box, and she
afterwards saw the piece of print produced, some stout bottles and a
key, which she could identify in the box, and she gave the prisoner
into custody.
By the Clerk:- When the prisoner came with the policeman she said
"My box has been broken open." There had been no one in the room
during the time the prisoner was away.
P.S. Hayward said that about half-past five on the previous
afternoon he was in the station-house, and inconsequence of what the
prisoner said to him he went with her to Mr. Parker’s house. When he
got there he saw Mrs. Parker coming down stair; from the direction
of the prisoner’s room, whither they all three proceeded. As soon as
the prisoner went to her box she ail "This box has been opened, I
left it locked," and on opening the lid she further said "the things
have been shifted, they are not as I left them."
Prisoner then took the things out, and on coming to the chemise
and dress prisoner said she bought the dress of the prosecutrix’s
daughter for 1s., and that the chemise had been lent to her, and she
intended to return it when it had been washed. On coming to the
piece of print produced, the prosecutrix said "I know you stole that
for it was in my bedroom," to which prisoner*replied "No it was not,
it has been in here ever since I sat up with your daughter when she
had delirium tremens. The last I saw of it was on the trunk, at the
foot of my bed. It was not in my box when I left it."
When the stout bottles were found the prisoner said they were
brought upstairs by the prosecutrix’s daughter, and the prosecutrix
replied, "From what I can see of it, yon are both alike, You have
both been robbing me."
On the key being found in the box, the prisoner said "You know
Mrs. Parker I used to carry the keys, and I might have put it in my
pocket."
This being the case, the Bench, without calling on the prisoner
for her defence, dismissed her.
She was then charged with stealing a dress and chemise, the
property of the prosecutrix’s daughter.
Mr. Delasaux again appeared for the prosecution.
From the evidence of the daughter, it appeared that she and the
prisoner were very intimate friends, spending nights together, and
that she had been in the habit of lending the prisoner clothes.
The Bench dismissed the prisoner on this charge also.
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Kent County Standard, Saturday 26 July 1879.
DICKESON and MARCHANT v. STANLEY.
This case came before Mr. G. Whitbread, judge of the Clerkenwell Court,
on Thursday. The plaintiffs, who are accountants and agents, of 38,
Tollington-park, sued the defendant, Zebulon Stanley, of the "Market
House," Canterbury, licensed victualler, for £25 5s, commission, &c, on
the sale of the "Reindeer, Wakefield-street, Gravesend. The
correspondence with the defendant was handed in, but the latter denied
all knowledge of the letters. Plaintiffs were consulted, but not to
stand for judgment with taxed costs.
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Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 14 April 1888.
The Market Hall Inn, Canterbury, England.
I have taken six bottles of "Warners Safe Cure" and "Warners Safe
Pills," and am very much better. They have done me a lot of good. I
have not had a bilious attack since I began taking "Warners Safe
Cure," and have found great benefit. I have recommended it to a lot
of people.
H. J. French. |
Looks like name from Ye(?) Cathedral Restaurant. The Cathedral
Restaurant/Market Hall is shown as advertising/selling Beer & Co's Ales.
Alfred Beer's Original Brewery,** located on Broad Street, was declared
bankrupt in 1891 and the company's small tied estate was eventually sold (in
1894) to Messrs. B.C. Bushell & Co's Black Eagle Brewery, Westerham. After
two more acquisitions, this company then became Bushell, Watkins and Smith
Ltd, whose Westerham Fine Ales were later being sold at the Market Hall, as
shown in the c.1905 photograph.
**As opposed to George Beer's Star Brewery, also located on Broad Street.
Apparent the Beer brothers did not get on!
LICENSEE LIST
JONES Julia 1838+
BASSINGDEN John 1851+ (age 76 in 1851 )(Market
Inn)
STANLEY Zebulon 1879+
PARKER J 1862+
BROWNING Russell Benjamin 1866-74+
 
BASSENDEN John E 1881+
HERITAGE Walter James 1882+
HOUGHTING George 1889-91+ (age 61 in 1891)
TOMLIN James R 1899-1903+
 
BROWNE Seymour 1913+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/MarketHall.shtml
Stapleton's
Guide 1838
From the Post Office Directory 1862
Greens
Canterbury Directory 1868
From the Post Office Directory 1874
Census
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1913
Historic
Canterbury web site www.machadoink.com
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