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Military Road
Canterbury
Traced to 1839, the premises was built in the early 1800s as a
grave-diggers cottage and is set on the edge of a cemetery.
The name "Dragoon" appears to have gained royal approval by 1865 when it
appeared in the directories as the "Royal
Dragoon."
I have also seen this given the title of the "Bold Dragoon" in 1849.
A report in the Kentish Chronicle of 1861 reported this as being the
"Flying Dragoon."
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From the Kentish Gazette, 9 September 1845.
Canterbury.
At the annual licensing on Thursday, the city magistrates renewed one
hundred and nineteen licences.
Nine new applicants were granted us
follows:— Thomas Attwood, "Old City of Canterbury," Oatenhill; Charles
Denham, for the "Queen's Head," Northgate; Henry Clements, for the "Alto
Douro," St. George’s-place; Eliz. Clinch. "Plasterers' Arms," Northgate;
Joseph Harrison, "Royal George," Northgate; Joseph Hirst, "Dragoon,"
Military-road; Angel Hyde, "Military Tavern," King-street; George
Lilley, "Waggoners' Arms," St. Dunstan; Henry James Page, "Windsor
Castle," Bridge-street.
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Kentish Gazette, 24 July 1849.
Mr. Vinser, landlord of the "Bold Dragoon" and Mrs. Baker, landlady of
the "British Oak," were summoned to appear before our city
magistrates, on Monday, to answer charges of nuisances arising on their
premises, by gutter water running into the open street in
the Military road. As there could be no disputing of the fact, the
defendants were mulcted in nominal penalties with costs, on the
understanding that the nuisances complained of should be remedied.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 9 March, 1861.
SUDDEN DEATH.
On Thursday evening on inquest was held at the “Flying Dragoon,”
Military-road, on the body of Matthew Fitzgerald, a sergeant in the 3rd
Dragoons Guards, who died very suddenly on the previous evening, aged
39.
David Hamilton, a sergeant in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, deposed to being
in the mess-room on the previous evening with the deceased, about 10
o’clock, and was playing at dominoes, and just after the game had
finished, deceased threw up his hands, fell from his seat, and
immediately expired. Deceased had always been considered a sickly man.
He instantly called the attention of the other sergeants, who fetched
the surgeon of the depot.
The surgeon deposed that on going to the mess-room he found the deceased
quite dead; and imagined from the marks of blood about the nose that
probably decreed had died from the rupture of a blood-vessel near the
heart. He had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and
found that death had been the result of what he had at first imagined.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of “Natural death.” Deceased has
left a wife and two children.
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LICENSEE LIST
HURST Joseph Sept/1845-47+
VINCER Edward 1849-51+ (age 30 in 1851 )
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
Census
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