Crosswall & 28 Strond Street

Members of Dover Patrol relaxing in 1940. By kind permission of Dover Library ILL/250.

Above picture shows a business card circa 1920.

This thoroughfare ran from Union Street to Clarence Place when built in 1661. The hotel can be traced to 1869 but already established by then. In 1913, as a family and commercial hotel, Gardner was the lessee, but it was always a free house by agreement. In 1928, Worsdell was accused of selling smuggled liquor and being jobless as a result, the lease passed to Cone. Apparently without the knowledge of the brewer or the Bench, which seems remarkable to say the least. Whatever the outcome, it must have been settled amicably because Cone was succeeded by his wife in 1936.

The closure came in August 1950 when the lease expired. Dover Harbour Board had redevelopment in mind and took down the house the following April. The full licence then moved to the "Royal Oak" at River, replacing its beer and wine 'on' licence.

LICENSEE LIST

FUHR Henri C & JONES H 1869-77 end

BEECHING Charles 1877-85

BAKER William Bishop 1892-95

MADGETT George 1897-99+

MADGETT N. G. 1901-09

NORMAN G. M. 1912

WORSDELL Thomas 1919-27 end

CONE Joseph 1927-36 dec'd

CONE Mrs Edith 1936-37 end

STIFFLER or STRIFFLER AIgernon Frederick 1937-48

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Kelley's Directory 1899

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1923

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1924

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1932-33