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324 London Road and 2 Tower Hamlets Road
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Pictured above is the Dover to Buckland horse-drawn
bus, with passengers, returning towards the town centre about the
1880's. On the left is the Eagle Hotel. |
Eagle circa 1987 (Photo by Paul Skelton) |
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Above and below Eagle circa 1980 by Barry Smith. |
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On a commanding corner position, the original was built on the former
site of the "Black Horse", shortly after 1839. It possessed a tea garden but
that attraction was discontinued when it was rebuilt in 1863. Brockman
served in 1843 and might well have been the first to do so.
The new house had teething troubles from the start and by 1868 the
licence was suspended. It next operated as the "Denmark Arms" but the new
name did little to change its fortunes. The licensees changed every year up
to 1877 and by 1893 the sign was once more the "Eagle".
It was an outlet for many years of John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery but
changed in 1946 to Courage (Elder).
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From the Dover Mercury 7 February 2002.
Plans for town pub to reopen.
A DOVER pub is due to reopen
later this month.
The Eagle, at the junction of London Road and Tower Hamlets, had
been known as the Olde Irish Times, but was closed some time ago.
Building work has been carried out, and 'new' landlord Mick Murphy
is planning to reopen the pub as a free house and revert to
calling it The Eagle.
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ABOVE:-
KILLING TIME: The gallows used
to stand at the junction of Tower Hamlets, Bridge Street and London
Road. Ref pd 237674
RIGHT:-
COMMEMORATION:
The blue plaque near the gallows' site.
Ref pd 237673 |
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From the Dover Mercury 26 September 2002
Hang around the Eagle for a grisly history lesson
THE spot where the town's criminals were executed has been marked with
the last in a series of 10 blue plaques erected by the Dover Society.
The Honorary Recorder of Dover, Judge Andrew Patience QC, unveiled the
memorial on Saturday following the Confederation of Cinque Ports
Speaker's Day event in the town.
The mayor Cllr Diane Smallwood and members of the Dover Society were
among those who watched the ceremony at the Eagle public house, at the corner of Tower Hamlets and London Road.
And she was reminded that, until 1837, it was the mayor's duty to
announce the death sentence.
The public hangings used to take place on the corner opposite the Eagle,
at the junction of Bridge Street and
London Road, but there had been difficulty in obtaining permission to
put the plaque there.
The Dover Society started on the plaque project five years ago to
commemorate the Millennium by choosing sites around the town where
important events had taken place.
Dover Society chairman Terry Sutton told how the wretched felon would be
drawn on a cart, his coffin beside him, to the gallows while townspeople
hurled abuse.
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From the Dover Express. 1861.
Juvenile Pickpockets.
Ellen Goldfinch and Barbara Duff, two girls one nine and the other 10
years of age where charged with picking the pocket of Mary Garlinge wife
of William Garlinge, New Street, in the Eagle Gardens, Charlton on
Monday. It appeared that “Charlton Fair” was held at the Eagle Gardens
on the evening in question.
Complainant went into the gardens and shortly after coming out she
missed her purse containing a florin and some other coins together with
four or five pawnbroker’s duplicates. She remembered pulling out her
purse shortly after getting into the gardens and was positive she
replaced it in her pocket.
The prisoner Goldfinch was apprehended by P.C. Terry on Thursday
afternoon in Limekiln Street and on being told by the constable of the
charge against her she said “Yes Barbara Duff told me to take it.” She
first put her hand in but would not take the purse out. I then put my
hand in and took the purse.
Mrs. Garlinge was with the constable when this took place and nothing
was said to induce the child to make the confession. She was afterwards
taken to the Station House and on the charge being read over she again
admitted that she had taken the purse out of the complainant’s pocket.
Terry afterwards apprehended the prisoner Duff at a house in Church
Street. She said she did not take the purse but that she had one
duplicate which she had torn up and part of the money. She also repeated
this statement on being cautioned in the usual way at the Police
Station.
Supt. Coram in reply to the magistrates said the girl Goldfinch was
brought before the Bench three years ago charged with pocket picking but
she was then only six years old, and in consequence of her tender age
the charge was not pressed. In the interim there had been some complaint
made against her by her schoolmistress but it was not gone into. The
prisoners both pleaded guilty and the Bench in sentencing them to seven
days imprisonment censured their mothers who were both present for the
want of care they had manifested in the control of their children. The
magistrates also said they were of the opinion that Mr. Foord the
proprietor of the Eagle Gardens, was much to blame for permitting the
“fair” to take place on his premises and intimidated that the
circumstances would not be forgotten when he applied for renewal of
license.
Information kindly supplied by Joyce Banks.
More reading of Dover at
www.DoverHistory.co.uk
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LICENSEE LIST
BROCKMAN 1843
FOORD James 1854-63 end (Eagle Tavern)
PRESCOTT George 1863 end
WATSON Isaac 1865
CHATWIN 1865 end
HARRIS T B 1868 end
KNOTT J 1868 end
ADAMS Frederick 1868
See "Denmark
Arms"
JACKSON Charles William R 1889-95+
 
FOWLIE Hugh 1899-1914 end
  
BEANE Francis James 1914-15
FAGG William J 1915-19
OVENDEN Ernest G. 1920-23 end
 
BEASLEY Henry Arthur Charles 1923
SMITH Herbert WaIter 1923-25 end
BROWN Edwin Curtis 1925 end
ELLIS Hugh Owen 1925-28 end
RICHARDSON George Joseph 1928 end
STREETER Percy 1928-29
CAIRNS James Robinson 1929-31 end
SMITH Herbert WaIter 1931-38 end
HARRISON Alfred Mark 1938
ANSTEY H G 1961-73
STUART-SMITH Michael I L 1974-5
STOKES Victor T 1974-76 dec' d
STOKES Mrs Celia 1976-77 end
ARMSTRONG 1977-80
SCOTT Clive 1981
BLACKHURST Michael N 1987 end
LEWIS David 1988
MURPHY Mick and Karen 2002
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895
From the Kelley's Directory 1899
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1923
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1924
From the Post Office Directory 1930
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1932-33
From the Post Office Directory 1938
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