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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1838-

Market Hall

Latest 1913+

13 (7) Sun Street (Butter Market 1838Stapletons Guide)

Canterbury

Market Hall 1890

Above photo, circa 1890. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Market Hall Inn 1905

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.

Market Hall 1905

Above photo, circa 1905. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Market Hall date unknown                        Market Hall after circa 1920

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

 

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.

 

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+ Stapletons Guide

BASSINGDEN John 1851+ (age 76 in 1851Census)(Market Inn)

PARKER J 1862+ Post Office Directory 1862

BROWNING Russell Benjamin 1866-74+ Greens Canterbury Directory 1868Post Office Directory 1874

BASSENDEN John E 1881+ Census

HERITAGE Walter James 1882+ Post Office Directory 1882

HOUGHTING George 1889-91+ (age 61 in 1891Census) Historic Canterbury web site

TOMLIN James R 1899-1903+ Post Office Directory 1903Kelly's 1903

BROWNE Seymour 1913+ Post Office Directory 1913

https://pubwiki.co.uk/MarketHall.shtml

 

Stapletons GuideStapleton's Guide 1838

Post Office Directory 1862From the Post Office Directory 1862

Greens Canterbury Directory 1868Greens Canterbury Directory 1868

Post Office Directory 1874From the Post Office Directory 1874

CensusCensus

Post Office Directory 1882From the Post Office Directory 1882

Post Office Directory 1903From the Post Office Directory 1903

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

Post Office Directory 1913From the Post Office Directory 1913

Historic Canterbury web siteHistoric Canterbury web site www.machadoink.com

 

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