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Commercial Quay
58 Strond Street
  
Snargate Street, Pentside
  
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The picture above was taken, date unknown. The Barley Mow is indicated by the "X".
The picture below is date unknown |
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Facing the dockside, numbers 51 to 58 were a continuation
of Commercial Quay and were removed with those properties in 1929-30.
A sheaf suggests an appropriate sign but the name could
have associations with Barley Mow Passage which separated 81 and 83 Snargate
Street. Its neighbour would have been the "Union Hotel" which disappeared in
the same purge, apparently going first, because early in 1930, the "Barley
Mow" and the "New Commercial Quay Inn" were the only two pubs still open in
the area designated for clearance.
An outlet of George Beer at the close, it was in the care
of Jack Cesar in 1805.
In 1848 John Herbert the son of landlord William Herbert, and recently
employed in the police, drowned in the pent, and a Coroner's Inquest took
place at the "Cumberland Hotel."
(Click for details.)
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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday,
18 September, 1868.
PERMISSION TO SELL.
Permission to sell at the "Barley Mow" until the adjourned licensing
day was granted to Mr. H. J. Meadows, as brewer's agent.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent
News, Friday, 10 June, 1870.
ROBBING A WORKMATE.
Josiah Jones, a labourer, was charged with stealing 6s. the money of
James Epps, a man with whom he had been employed.
James Epps: I am a labourer and live at Finnis's Hill. I have
recently been employed on board a steam collier in company with the
prisoner. Last Saturday evening, I was at the "Barley Mow," with the
prisoner, and got very tipsy. When I went into the public-house I had
about seven shillings in the left hand pocket of my jacket .While
sitting there I lost the whole of the money, and I saw the prisoner's
hand come out of the pocket. I asked him to give me the money back
again, and he said he had not got it. We then got to blows, and after we
had done fighting he went into the packet yard. I afterwards gave
information to a policeman who came along at the time, and the prisoner
was then taken into custody.
By the Bench: I had been drinking with the prisoner for about an hour
and a half. We had been working together that day, and on getting paid
we went to the public-house.
John McSchane, a private in the 97th Regiment, said that about five
o'clock on Saturday evening he was in the "Barley Mow" public-house,
where he saw the prisoner and the other man. They were drinking together
and afterwards got to blows. In the course of the scuffle the prisoner
took hold of the other man and declared he would put him on the fire
place; and as he had hold of the prosecutor witness saw him put his hand
in his pocket and take out some money. Among the money were two
two-shilling pieces, a shilling, and some coppers. The prisoner
afterwards ran out of the house and the prosecutor followed him, and
they commenced fighting again. The prisoner afterwards went into a coal
yard, where he was found by the police, in a little shed.
Police-constable John Sabin: On Saturday evening I went into the
packet yard, in consequence of what I heard, and found the prisoner in a
shed. He was very drunk; but he understood the nature of the charge made
against him, and said he was not guilty. I told him I should see what
money he had about him, and on searching him I found among his money two
two-shilling pieces, and some coppers. The complainant was also drunk.
The soldier, however, was sober; and on his telling me that he saw the
prisoner take the money out of the other man's pocket, I detained the
prisoner.
The prisoner denied the charge; but said he was very drunk at the
time.
The Magistrates committed him for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.
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Five a.m. opening was allowed from 1881 but by 1900 that
was extended to three thirty a.m.
David Torr, in 1890 had fourteen pounds of tobacco on the
premises which the revenue men considered he had not declared. Apart from
his fine of £5.10s. and the loss of his right to draw, the Bench seem to
have overstepped their authority when they refused the licence transfer to
another member of the trade. By access to higher channels, James Dolbear
effected a reopening here in October that year.
But the end result: It was closed by February 1930 and had
disappeared for good by April. The brewer's compensation was £4,548 and
licensee, Mrs Mary Hunt, got £475. She moved the same year to the
"Salutation".
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From the Dover Express. August 1887.
Barley Mow Strond Street.
On Thursday morning early, shortly before one o’clock a fire broke out in
the bar of the Barley Mow public house, Strond Street. The fire was
noticed by some of the Harbour Board’s watchmen who scaled the wall at
the back of the premises and got into the bar where the flames were
seen. By applying their hose the fire was extinguished but not before
serious damage was done to the ceiling and counter. A lighted match
being thrown down on the sawdust by the counter believed to have caused the fire, it
is thought was purely accidental originated. Thanks are due to the
Harbour Board employees for their prompt assistance.
Information kindly supplied by Joyce Banks.
More reading of Dover at
www.DoverHistory.co.uk
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LICENSEE LIST
CESAR John 1805-23+
CESAR Susannah 1826-28+
HARBERT William 1832-1858+ dec'd
 
(HERBERT)
HARBERT Elizabeth 1862-64+ (HERBERT 1864)
License transfer (unknown) July/1867
MEADOWS H J Sep/1868,
brewers agent
CANN George 1869
DAY William (Day H W?) 1869 end
PEEL John 1872-74
DALLEY James 1875
CULLINANE Patrick 1878
HOBDAY Walter 1878 end
TORR David 1882-1890 end
 
DOLBEAR James 1890-95
DIXON W Charles A 1899-1903
  
WARRELL or WALWOOD W J 1903-4 end
WALWOOD W J 1903-7 end
ORMAN J D 1907-8 end
HUNT James 1908-19 dec'd
   
HUNT Mrs Mary Ann 1919-May/30
 
From an email received from a Shan Siggers from Buckinghamshire on 7 Dec
2009, I am told that the Hunt's were great great grand-parents of theirs and
they believe that their grand-mother and siblings were born there.
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-9
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Pigot's Directory 1839
From the Pigot's Directory 1840
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
From the Post Office Directory 1855
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Post Office Directory 1874
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895
From the Kelly's Directory 1899
From the Post Office Directory 1901
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1909
From the Kelly's Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1918
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1923
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1924
From the Dover Express
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