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Earliest 1854-

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Bruxelles Inn

Latest 1854+

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3 Beach Street

Dover

 

Originally called the "Hotel-de-Brussels" it seems this pub changed name to a more Foreign sounding "Bruxelles Inn" in about 1854, but some time after that date it changed again to the "Brussels Inn". I can only assume that either the spelling was more convenient to resort to the more familiar Brussels spelling, or that the spelling of Bruxelles was a mistake in the first place. Although it did appear under this name in two different newspaper reports.

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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 10 June, 1854. Price 5d.

CORONER'S INQUEST

An inquest was held on Thursday, before George T. Thompson, Esquire. Coroner of the Borough, at the "Bruxelles Inn," Beach Street, on the body of a mariner picked up off this port, by a Deal boat, on Wednesday. The evidence went no further than the identification of the body as that of Adam Golden, aged 27, of Hastings, and one of the crew of the schooner "Sprightly," of Folkestone, where deceased has left a wife and two children. As there was nothing to show how death resulted, save a report of his being lost on the 16th ult., the enquiry was adjourned to the 22nd inst., when the "Sprightly" will in all probability be returned from her present voyage.

 

Kentish Gazette, 13 June 1854.

Coroner's Inquests.

An inquest was held on Thursday, before George T. Thompson, Esq., at the "Bruxelles Inn," Beach-street, on the body of a mariner picked up off this port, by a Deal boat, on Wednesday. The evidence went no further than the identification of the body as that of Adam Golden, aged 27. of Hastings, and one of the crcw of the schooner "Sprightly," of Folkestone. As there was nothing to show how death resulted, save a report of his being lost on the 16 ult., the enquiry was adjourned to the 22nd inst.

On Friday evening, a second inquest was held before the name coroner, touching the death of Mr. William Rogers, landlord of the "Terminus Inn," who was found dead in the morning, lying on his face in the bar of the house. It appeared that he had not retired to rest. The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned the following verdict. That deceased was suffocated by reason of an accidental fall.

 

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