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66 West Street
Gravesend
https://whatpub.com/fishermans-arms
Above photo, circa 1900. The building opposite, shown on the right
of this picture is the corner of the "Trafalgar
Tavern." Kindly supplied by John Hopperton. |
Above photo, circa 1921, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, date unknown, by John Mason. |
Above photo, 1959. |
Above photo circa 1970. Kindly supplied by John Hopperton. |
Above sign, August 1986.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
Above photos 17 July 2014, kindly supplied by Roy Moore. |
This dated from 1791 and is said to have a secret passage to the "Three
Daws." It closed in 1992 and by 2014 was an Indian restaurant titled "The Gandhi."
The original building was destroyed in a huge fire in 1844.
Information about the
fire can be viewed here
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Southeastern Gazette, 10 May 1853.
Friday. Before J. Saddingion, Esq., Mayor, R, Oakes, C. Spencer, and
E. Tickner, Esqrs.)
James Collins, of the "Fisherman’s Arms," was
charged with a similar offence (for keeping his house open on
Sunday morning) and pleaded guilty. White saw several persons
drinking, some men belonging to the town. Fined 10s. and costs. |
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Kentish Independent, Saturday 14 May 1853.
James Collins, landlord of the "Fisherman's Arms," was summoned for
a similar offence, for having his house open for the sale of liquor
on Sunday morning.
Police Constable White stated that he found the back door of the
defendant's house open, and going in he found, several persons there
drinking beer and smoking, some were fisherman but others were men
belong to the town.
The Bench inflicted the following penalty, Mr. Collins 10s. and
costs 7s. 6d.
The Bench in reply to a question from one of the publicans present
said that they did not consider persons coming from London on
pleasure by the steamboat's were "travellers," such as a law
contemplated in the exceptions.
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Above photo showing Frederick and Clara Malt, circa 1920, kindly
sent by Rory Kehoe, who goes on to say the following:- Frederick and
Clara Malt may have had another pub before the "Fisherman's Arms"
but they took the pub in 1913. Frederick died in 1948 and his widow
then ran it with her son, Herbert, until 1950. In 1950,
Herbert's bother, Sidney and his wife, Thelma, ran the pub,
alongside Clara. However, in 1952 the Fisherman's Arms was again
being run by Herbert but with no mention of Clara, so perhaps she'd
retired, or maybe died? In 1953 the licence passed out of the Malt
family and John Brett took over. He was replaced, in 1957, by Harry
Wakefield. |
The licensees named Wakefield had a daughter called Liz French after she
married and went on to be the licensee of the "Terminus"
in Gravesend and later the "Morning
Star" in Swanscombe
LICENSEE LIST
JACKSON George 1824+
JACKSON Sarah 1828+
COLLINS James 1832-55
STEER Sarah Mrs 1858+
ROBERTS J 1862+
GARN Herbert 1865-74+
WYNDHAM Edward Robert 1878-82+ (age 30 in 1881 )
MILLS & NICHOL 1891+
BULLIMORE Frederick A 1901+ (age 39 in 1901)
BLACKHALL William 1903+
MALT Frederick 1913-48 dec'd
MALT Clara (widow) & Herbert (son) 1948-50
MALT Sidney (brother) & Thelma 1950-52
MALT Herbert 1952-53
BRETT John 1953-57
WAKEFIELD Harry 1957+
WAKEFIELD D A Mrs to 1964 dec'd
1988 - 90/J Nixon esq
https://pubwiki.co.uk/FishermansArms.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/fishermansarms.html
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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