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Sort file:- Brompton, September, 2023.

Page Updated:- Monday, 04 September, 2023.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1851-

 Anchor and Hope

Latest 1872

32 High Street / Wood Street

Brompton

Anchor and Hope 1865

Above photo, circa 1865, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

 

It is suggested that the name could be a corruption of ‘hope anchor’ (the spare anchor), or possibly religious connotations of trust.

 

Information from Ben Levick

The "Anchor and Hope" is the building on the corner with the sign-board sticking out. Beyond it, on the other side of Wood Street is the "Crown" Pub.

This pub seems to have opened sometime in the 1840s, and lasted only a generation or so. One of many Brompton pubs named with a naval theme, possibly a corruption of the naval term ‘hope anchor', the spare anchor carried by some ships. Other possible origins may be religious connotations of trust, or perhaps the pub was opened by an old sailor with his savings/prize money/etc., who saw the pub as something of a gamble. The local licensing records for 1872 show that the licence was not renewed as on August 23 of that year the pub was ‘about to be pulled down.'

 

Southeastern Gazette, 6 September 1853. Rochester

COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS

Mr. J. L. Catt, of the "Anchor and Hope" beer-shop at Brompton, I applied for a license, grounding his application more particularly on an assertion which he said a publican living near him had made, namely, that he had made £30,000 in 13 years. Application refused.

 

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 6 September 1853.

This being the annual licensing day, the following applications for licences to beer-shops were made, but refused.

"Anchor and Hope," Brompton.

All the old licences were renewed.

 

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

 

LICENSEE LIST

CATT John L 1851-58+ (beer seller age 37 in 1851Census)

CATT William Taylor 1862+

COXHEAD Robert 1871+ (age 32 in 1871Census)

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

 

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If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-
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