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Page Updated:- Saturday, 18 September, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

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Railway Tavern

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65 High Street

Margate

 

I also have reference to a "Railway Hotel" addressed at Station Approach and also 29 High Street which may be the same as this, although the names of the licensees overlap.

 

Kentish Gazette, 24 August 1852.

DESIRABLE FREEHOLD INVESTMENTS. MARGATE, KENT.

Consisting of a spacious, lofty, and well-lighted BAZAAR, with Vaults beneath; a FREE PUBLIC-HOUSE, and several FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSES, and old-established SHOPS and BUSINESS PREMISES, all respectably tenanted and adjoining together, situate in the very best part of the Town; being Nos. 27, 28, 29, and 30. in HIGH STREET, and Nos. 1, 2. and 3, in QUEEN STREET, which, by direction of the trustees for sale, WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, Positively without Reserve, BY MR. R. JENKINS, ON THURSDAY, the 20th day of August, 1852, at the "York Hotel, in MARGATE, at Two for Three o'clock in the Afternoon precisely, IN SIX LOTS.

Lot 3:- All those valuable and spacious premises, being Nos. 29 and 30, in High Street aforesaid, adjoining the last lot; comprising the free licence house known as the "Railway Tavern," enjoying a first-rate trade, and consisting of a commodious and well fitted bar, next the street, with double entrance therefrom, bar parlour, coffee room, two other sitting rooms, smoking room, 8 bed-rooms, kitchens, convenient cellars, water closet, and other domestic offices; held on a repairing lease by Mr. Tozer, at the low rate of £30 per annum.

Also the compact front show shop, commanding a good business in the fancy trade, with a sitting room, two bedrooms, kitchen, &c., &c., for several years in the occupation of Mr. G. Atkinson, as yearly tenants, at £20 per annum.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

TOZER Mr 1852+

TOZER Mary Mrs 1858+

AKHURST James Hudson 1871-74+ (age 34 in 1871Census)

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

 

CensusCensus

Williams Directory 1849From Isle of Thanet Williams Directory 1849

 

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