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Sort file:- Brompton, February, 2026.

Page Updated:- Saturday, 28 February, 2026.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1754-

Dolphin

Latest 1896

43 High Street

Brompton

Brompton map

Above map, date unknown, showing the following pub locations:-

1:- "King’s Arms"

2:- "Army and Navy"

3:- "Royal Marine"

4:- "King’s Head"

5:- "Grasshopper"

6:- "Dockyard Arms"

7:- "Dolphin"

8:- "Two Sawyers"

9:- "Bricklayer's Arms"

A:- "Golden Lion"

B:- "Navy Arms"

C:- "Prince of Wales"

D:- "Good Intent"

E:- "Duke of York"

F:- "Shipwright's Arms"

 

This may well be the same pub that I have listed as the "Dolphin" in Gillingham.

 

From the Maidstone Journal, 6 November 1792.

Died.

Tuesday last died in an advanced age, Mr. Thomas Sutton, Master of the "Dolphin" public house, High Street, Brompton.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 11 August 1857.

County Bench, Wednesday August 5.

(Before J. Smith, Esq., T. H. Day, Esq., Rev. G. Davies, and Major Boys.)

Patrick O'Connor, an eccentric looking man, who said he was a professor of mathematics, at Brompton, was charged with creating a disturbance, and wilfully smashing a door shutter at the "Dolphin" public house, Brompton.

Fined 5s. and 6s. costs.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

SUTTON Thomas to Nov/1792 dec'd

McRITCHIE Alex 1828-32+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29Pigot's Directory 1832-34

COOLEY Alfred 1861-62+

FARMER John 1874+

FRIGHT C 1882+

COOKE Samuel 1891+ (age 46 in 1891Census)

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

 

Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

CensusCensus

 

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