DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sittingbourne, September, 2022.

Page Updated:- Saturday, 10 September, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1864-

 Royal Oak

Latest 1903+

(Name to)

45 Dover Street

Sittingbourne

 

Originally called the "Royal Oak" and just a beer house in 1879, the pub changed name to the "British Legion" in the early 1900s and then to the "Ivy leaf Club." Today (2015) it is operating as a Chinese restaurant.

 

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From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 21 September 1867. Price 1d.

ANNUAL LICENSING DAY

The following applications for new licenses were heard:—  Wm. Fry, "Royal Oak,” Sittingbourne; the application was refused.

 

Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal, Saturday 20 September 1879.

Sittingbourne Petty Sessions.

Philip Eastfield was fined 20s., including costs, or the alternative of 14 days' hard labour, for being drunk and refusing to quit the "Oak beer House," Sittingbourne.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

WEBB Charles to Nov/1871 East Kent Gazette

ROGERS James Nov/1871+ East Kent Gazette

FOLMER Edward 1881+

BAKER George 1899+

NEAVES Horace 1901+ (age 47 in 1901Census)

WARNER Sarah Mrs 1903+

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

 

East Kent GazetteEast Kent Gazette

CensusCensus

 

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