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97 New Road
Woolwich
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Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 21 April 1855.
GUN TAVERN, NEW ROAD, WOOLWICH.
J. BUTTERY,
BEGS to announce that having closed his old establishment, known by the
sign of the "GUN," he has removed his premises to the
New Tavern, three houses lower down in the same road, and having laid in
an extensive stock of the Choicest Foreign Wines and
Spirits, and Malt Liquors,He respectfully solicits a continuance of that
patronage which he has
hitherto to liberally received.
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South Eastern Gazette, 17 July, 1860.
WOOLWICH. Suicides of Soldiers.
Private Reddy, belonging to the Military Train, stationed in the
west square of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, yesterday
week committed suicide in one of the stables, by placing the muzzle
of his carbine in his mouth and blowing away the back part of his
head. On hearing the report of the carbine, his comrades, who were
near at hand, rushed to the spot, and found that the unfortunate
man, on the commission of the act, had fallen forward and was lying
on a wheelbarrow, on his stomach, quite dead.
On Wednesday last, a coroner’s jury, presided over by Mr. Carttar,
coroner for West Kent, having assembled at the "Gun Tavern,"
Woolwich, on view of the body of Corporal Coombes, a bandsman of the
garrison, who committed suicide by precipitating himself from a
window of the Royal Artillery Infirmary, resolved on addressing a
note to General Dacres, recommending that in all cases in which
patients exhibit symptoms of insanity they should be accommodated in
that part of the hospital which is secured by gratings at the
windows, so as to prevent an occurrence now becoming frequent. The
unfortunate deceased had made a former attempt at self-destruction a
few days previously by cutting his throat with his razor. Four cases
of suicide have occurred among the military at Woolwich during the
past week, three of whom lay side by side in the dead-house, ready
for interment, and they were all pronounced men of a disordered
intellect, and subject to fits of temporary insanity.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 20 April, 1861.
SUICIDE OF AN ARTILLERYMAN AT WOOLWICH.
Wednesday afternoon Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an
inquiry at the “Gun Tavern,” New-road Woolwich, into the circumstances
attending the death of Quarter-master Sergeant Robert Mumford, Royal
Artillery, who, it was alleged, had committed suicide by taking poison.
The evidence proved that, on the previous Saturday, the deceased went to
a public-house named the “Soldiers' Rest,” where he was found in a slate
of insensibility, and conveyed to the Royal Ordnance Hospital. He was
promptly attended by Dr. Duff, but died shortly after his admission into
the institution. The deceased had purchased two separate quantities of morphia at the shop of Mr. Shipman, chemist, a few days previous to his
death, and the appearance presented by a post mortem examination led to
the conclusion that resulted from poison. After some conversation
between the coroner and jury it was considered advisable to obtain an
analysis of the contents of the stomach by an eminent authority, and the
inquest was adjourned for that purpose.
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LICENSEE LIST
MEEK Mark 1823+
MEEK Charlotte 1832+
CHARLTON John to Nov/1851
HAMMOND Samuel Nov/1851-52+
BUTTERY John 1855-58+
GORDON Charles 1866+
AGATE William 1862-July/1872 dec'd
GORDON Arabella July/1872+
DOVEY James Richard 1874+
BARRISKILL Thomas 1882-Aug/1883 dec'd
BARRASKILL Mary Aug/1883+
ARMSTRONG Eliza 1891+ (widow age 40 in 1891 )
BROWN George 1896+
DOWSE George 1901-05+
PAMMENT Alfred 1908+
PARR William 1911+
PLUMMER Arthur William 1919-21+
Improved Public House Co Ltd 1934+
GRAHAM Rose Mrs 1838-44+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/GunTavern.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From
the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
Kentish
Independent
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