80½ High Street

Gravesend

Above photo 2018 showing 80½ High Street.

This pub has been recorded as being in the High Street, situated at the end of a narrow passageway. I am informed that there is still a narrow passage way called Hole in the Wall Alley" that leads from the High Street to Princess Street which would of been Church Street back then.  I am not sure if the passage way led all the way through to the pub back then or maybe led to a courtyard.

Above sign showing the entrance to the alleyway mentioned above.

Above map from Google 2015.

Above location from Google.

It appears that in November 1846 the pub was seriously damaged in a fire if not totally destroyed. (Details here.)

After its closure the license was transferred to the "Albion Ale Shades" in 1910.

LICENSEE LIST

MARTIN John Rodney 1824-40+

WALTER Thomas J 1851+ (age 25 in 1851)

PATTISON Alexander 1855+

DAVIS Thomas B 1861-62+ (age 41 in 1861)

TWIST Isaac 1865-78+

BLACKMAN Thomas William Mar/1879-82+ (age 27 in 1881)

COLLYER James 1891+ (listed as brewer's labourer age 54 in 1891)

LOTT Joshua B 1891+

HAYWARD George 1903+

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

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/holeinthewall.html

From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

Census

Gravesend Reporter