DRUID'S ARMS Pubs of Margate

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Sort file:- Margate, December, 2023.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 10 December, 2023.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1839-

Druids Arms

Closed Sept 1966

14 St. John's Road (7 St John Street 1839)

Margate

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Derek Porter.

Above photo date unknown.

Above Google image, 2015, kindly sent and annotated by Debi Birkin.

Above photo showing Arthur and Emily Porter, licensees 1953-55. Kindly sent by Derek Porter.

Above photo showing Emily Porter and customers 1953. Kindly sent by Derek Porter.

Above map 1948.

Richard & Susannah Water's daughter, Henrietta, married Edward Wales the next tenant. They seem to have gone to Luton in Bedfordshire to marry. Probably as she was underage.

From the Kentish Gazette, 25 January 1848.

On Saturday the Judges of the County Court sat at the Town hall here. There were several cases for hearing. Among the number was Mr. Joseph Hollams, late of the "Druid’s Arms" public house, who had filed his schedule and petitioned to pass the court as an insolvent debtor. This is the first case which has come on for hearing here under the recent act of parliament, and consequently it excited considerable interest. The insolvent was opposed by Mr. May Inge, brewer; and, principally through the miss spelling of names in two of the notices to creditors, the case was adjourned.

Kentish Gazette, 18 December 1849.

MARGATE. FREE PUBLIC HOUSE.

TO BREWERS, PUBLICANS, AND OTHERS.

TO LET, on a yearly tenancy, from Christmas 1849, the well-known licensed FREE PUBLIC HOUSE, "THE DRUIDS’ ARMS" is St. John's Street, MARGATE.

For particulars apply to Mr. Richard Jenkins, Estate Agent, Margate, or to Messrs. Roumieu, Walters, Romieu, and Young, Solicitors, 9, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London.

Southeastern Gazette, 26 July 1853.

MARGATE, KENT.

THE DRUIDS’ ARMS, FREEHOLD PUBLIC HOUSE.

Mr. J. STANER IS INSTRUCTED TO SELL BY AUCTION,

On Wednesday, 3rd of August, 1853, at One for Two o’clock in the afternoon precisely, at the "Kent Hotel," in Margate,

ALL that substantially built FREEHOLD LICENSED HOUSE, eligibly situate for business, at the corner of St. John’s-place and St. John’s-street, in Margate, with frontage in each.

The premises contain 3 good bed-rooms, 1 large ditto, parted by a partition, and an ante-room, a good upper sitting-room, coffee and tap-rooms, bar parlor, and well-arranged bar, with modern double front, kitchen, well house, vaults, and good cellarage, with other conveniences.

The premises may be viewed any time prior to sale, and particulars and conditions bad of S. Coleman, Esq., Solicitor, Long Hope, Gloucester; or of the Auctioneer, 48, High-street, Margate.

South Eastern Gazette, 21 February, 1860.

Petty Sessions, Tuesday.

(Before T. Blackburn and R. Jenkins, Esqrs.)

Richard Waters, landlord of the "Druids’ Arms," was also summoned by Superintendent Saunders on a similar charge. (Keeping his house open for the sale of liquors, on Sunday, the 5th inst.) A witness having deposed that the beer was drawn at a quarter before 3 o’clock, the magistrates did not feel justified in convicting.

From an email sent 2 September 2017.

Jane Purdon recently sent me the following:-

I recently bought a book at a second hand book shop. It is called "Escape to Danger" by Flight Lieutenant Brickhill and Conrad Norton and is the second impression published 1948.

It has the attached inscription on the front cover, which I thought you might be interested to see.

Regards,

Jane Purdon.

I am assuming that G P Garland was a licensee after 1948.

Thanet Times, Tuesday 27 September 1966.

Last orders for ever at the Druid's Arms.

Male patrons dressed as women at the closing night party at the "Druids Arms."

THE FAMILIAR CRY of "Last orders, gentlemen, please," rang out on Wednesday at the Druid's Arms public house in St. John's Road, Margate, for the last time.

The "Druid's Arms" is a victim of "redevelopment." The houses and shops that stood next to it in the block for more than a century had already been reduced to rubble.

As you read this, workmen will have started ripping out the bar, tearing down the old low ceilings.

But it closed on Wednesday with a happy "wake" as the "regulars" said cheerio to the publican and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Missey.

Mrs. Jean Missey put up piles of sandwiches and rolls and it was "last night drinks on the house."

The regulars joined in the spirit, the women turning up in hob-nail boots, denims, shirts and ties, while the men-folk wore mini-skirts, wigs and lingerie.

The bars were packed until the extension expired at midnight, then the "Druids Arms" shut its doors for the last time.

Said Mr. Missey, who has kept the "Druid's" for six years: "We are going to have a short rest, then look round for another pub."

He went on "I'm very sorry to leave the "Druid's Arms." We will miss all of our locals."

Mrs. Missey was equally upset at leaving. "I will miss my customers and the many happy times we have had here," she said. "The atmosphere in the "Druid's Arms" was the best in the world."

LICENSEE LIST

CONSTANT William Frederick 1839+

HOLLAMS Joseph 1847+