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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1791-

Tailor's Arms

Latest 1851+

High Street/Hunters Yard / 42 High Street

Margate

O S Map 1852

O S Map 1852.

 

I have reference in the Pigot's Directory of 1832 to a brewery at 42 High Street, under the name of William Hunter. With this place being referred to as Hunter's Yard, I am inclined to think the brewery was at this pub in 1832.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 23 August 1842.

FREE PUBLIC HOUSE, (With or Without a Brewery), TO BE SOLD, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, THE LEASE, 16 Years unexpired of the "TAILORS’ ARMS," most desirably situate in High street, MARGATE, doing about £80 per month in beer and spirits; rent very low, and overpaid by lodgers, being a 'Tailors' Club-house. The Brewery is new and compact, with a good funnily trade attached. A Coal and Potato Shed on the Premises, in which, during the last Whiter 100 tons of coals, and 300 sacks of potatoes were sold by retail. Coming in for the whole about £600, including furniture, plant, &c. Public-house alone about £450.

For further particulars apply, if by letter (post-paid), to Messrs. Boys and Son, solicitors, Margate; or to Mr. Marchant, Superintendent of Police, Margate.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 14 November 1848.

MARGATE, BROADSTAIRS, ST. PETER’S, AND READING STREET.

In the Isle of Thanet, in the County of Kent.

VALUABLE FREEHOLD & LEASEHOLD ESTATES.

Comprising capacious Houses, well adapted for Families or Schools, Public House, Shops, Stabling, Warehouses, &c., &c.

WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, (by order of the Mortgagees), BY MR. RICHARD JENKINS.

AT the "York Hotel," MARGATE, on MONDAY, the 20th day of November, 1848, and two following days, at Ten for Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, in 52 Lots.

Lot 13.- A valuable FREE PUBLIC HOUSE, eligibly situate for business, with a double front, at the corner of High Street and Hunter’s Yard, known by the sign of the "Tailors' Arms" with convenient bar, parlour, club room, and three bedrooms, extensive cellaring, and convenient out offices, in the occupation of Mr. R. S. Cramp, for the residue of a term of 21 years, from the 6th of April, 1838, at the rent of £13 per annum.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

HUNTER William 1791-1832+

KNIGHT George 1839+

WARD Samuel 1847+

KNIGHT George 1849-51+ Williams Directory 1849

 

Williams Directory 1849From Isle of Thanet Williams Directory 1849

 

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