Five Bells

Latest Feb 1898

(Name to)

38 (4) Queen Street

Milton

Gravesend

The pub was originally addressed as number 38, but after renumbering of the street it became number 4 and also changed name in 1898 to the "Dolphin."

The earliest date that I have is 1658, the name of the building is not known but the owner/landlady is recorded as Jane Butterice (later Barwick).

1709 shows that an Inn and Hostelry known as 5 Bells was set up and that £5 was paid to the Corporation. At this time James Griffon the Elder was in residence.

1778 - 1897 it was known as Five Bells with various landlords.

1833 there is a note that about a New Brick Messuage, (a partial rebuild perhaps?) with the owner named as William Kemball.

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From the Maidstone Journal, 12 April 1796.

Freeholds in and near Gravesend, Kent.

To be sold by auction. By Mr. Smith.

At Garraway's coffee-house, Change Alley, Cornhill, on Thursday, the 21st of April, at 12 o'clock, by order of the executors, in 21 lots.

The Manor of Milton, near Gravesend, with the valuable freeholder estates of the late Michael Bedell, Esq., deceased; let at rents amounting to £1300 pounds per annum.

Lot 1. The manner of Milton, with a capital family house, situated near the 23 mile stone from London to Rochester, containing numerous rooms and offices, seated in a rich vale, commanding a most delightful view over the Thames and Hills beyond, with a spacious paddock, large gardens, orchard and meadow, containing together 22 acres of excellent land.

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Lot 15:- A capital house, called the "New Inn," adjoining the turnpike road from Gravesend to Rochester, with stabling, large yard, cooperage, kitchen garden, and bowling green, containing two acres, with an excellent house adjoining, let to Mr. Ward, at £64 per annum.

Lot 16:- A dwelling house adjoining the "George Inn," situated in Queen Street, Gravesend, with two acres of rich garden ground, let to Mr. Robert Jessop, at £16 per annum.

Lots17:- The "Five Bells" public house, the "George Inn," and dwelling house, situating Queen Street, in the occupation of Messrs. Everest, Marden, and Hunt, let's at £58 pound per annum.

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May be viewed with leave of the tenants, 12 days previous to the sale, and particulars had at the "Green Man," Blackheath; "Bull and George," Dartford; "Falcon," Gravesend; "Bull," Rochester; "Rose," Sittingbourne; "Saracens Head," Ashford; "Fountain," Canterbury; of Mr. Asser, Land-Surveyor, Greenhithe, near Dartford; of Mr. Hillditch, Solicitor, Gough Square, Fleet Street; and of Mr. Smith, No. 62, Broad Street, near the Royal Exchange, London.

From the Kentish Gazette, 7 November 1837.

DEATHS.

October 26th, Mrs. Moore, of the "Five Bells," Milton next Gravesend.

Southeastern Gazette, 13 September 1853.

In renewing the various licenses the following transfers were made.

The license of the "Five Bells," Queen-street, from Henry Moore to William Hayward Walter.

From the Kentish Gazette, 15 December 1857.

Robbery.

On the morning of Thursday a respectably dressed man, between thirty and forty years of age, went to the "Five Bells" public house, in Queen-street, and called for a pint of beer. A few minutes afterwards the man left, and with him also disappeared about five yards of new flannel which was in the tap-room when he entered it.

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