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Sort file:- Gillingham, December, 2021.

Page Updated:- Monday, 06 December, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1711-

 Ship Inn

Open 2020+

Court Lodge Road / Layfield Road

Gillingham

01634 612731

https://whatpub.com/ship

Ship

Above photo, date unknown.
Ship

Above photo, date unknown.
Ship 2011

Above photo 2011.
Ship Inn sign 2011

Above sign left 2011, sign right, 2021, kindly sent by Arthur Cornwell.

Above photo, February 2012, kindly sent by Arthur Cornwell.

 

Information below by Ben Levick

The "Ship" was located in Church Street in 1711, and possibly long before that, but at some time before 1840 moved to its present location on Gad's Hill. The current building has a very old and rural appearance suggesting the building might pre-date its use as a pub.

 

Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 05 February 1822.

DIED.

Lately, Mr. Thomas Creag, landlord of the "Ship" public-house, Gadshill, Gillingham, aged 76.

 

 

Address for this pub was often given as Gad's Hill but today it is in Court Lodge Road.

The pub closed for a short time but reopened again in January 2011.

 

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

CREAG Thomas to Feb/1822 dec'd

TIDD William 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29

LYNCH Mary 1832+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

LYNCH Mary 1840+

SNELLING James 1855+ (also Blacksmith)

KNIGHT Mrs 1858+

RANCE Stephen 1861+ (age 29 in 1861Census)

RANN Stephen John 1862+ (also Cooper)

KNIGHT Thomas 1871+ (age 42 in 1871Census)

KILLICK Henry Thomas 1881-91+ (age 38 in 1881Census)

DRINCQBIER/DRUCQBIER Ernest A H 1901+ (age 37 in 1901Census)

SPENCELEY Edward 1903-30+ Kelly's 1903

SPENCELEY Herbert R 1938+

DALLEY George 1972+

Last pub licensee had ROBINSON Charlotte 2011-17/Mar/16+

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

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

 

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

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

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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