DREDGING SMACK Pub of Milton Regis

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

Dredging Smack

Latest 1891+

(Name to)

3 King Street

Milton Regis

From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday, 7 January, 1860.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS to be heard at the Sessions House, Maidstone, before the Judge of the County Court of Kent, on FRIDAY, the twentieth day of January, 1860, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely.

HORACE MILWAY, formerly of High Street Milton, next Sittingbourne, Kent, baker and confectioner, then of the "Dredging Smack Inn," King Street, Milton, next Sittingbourne, Kent, licensed victualler and confectioner, and then and late of High Street, Milton, next Sittingbourne, Kent, confectioner.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, 18 May 1893.

DARING ROBBERY.

At the Sittingbourne Petty Sessions on Monday George Edwards, a tramp, was charged with stealing a gold watch, a silver watch, a gold chain, and a brass chain, together of the value of £6, the property of Henry Terry from the "Dredging Smack" beerhouse, Milton, on the 7th inst.

Prisoner confessed the theft, and was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

It was reported from an article in the East Kent Gazette titled "Reminiscences of Milton pubs, around 1860" published in 1922:- that there were often free fights and carnage there. This was a rendezvous for the seafaring men to congregate and chat.

A Thomas Gouge, jun. operating as a wheelwright from premises at the back of the Smack Inn, King Street in 1865, advertised in The East Kent Gazette, on January 7, 1865.

LICENSEE LIST

SOUTH William 1828-32+ (Smack)