|
87 Old Dover Road (Riding Gate 1824)
Rhodaus Town
Canterbury
Above painting by W H Hayman, 1770. |
Above photo 1880s, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo 1880s, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo circa 1960, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
I believe the Google image above taken August 2016 shows the same
location, unless of course I am looking the wrong way. Local knowledge
needed here please. |
Above photo, August 2017, kindly taken and sent by Rory Kehoe. |
The only information I can find on this house at present is from the
licensing lists below. However, the Historic
Canterbury web site www.machadoink.com
mentions a house just up from number 86 but with no name just a name called
"York House" and Richard Westwood being occupier in 1889 and James Gilbert
Sandiford in 1903. What appears to be next door further up is a house called
"Southfield" occupied by Stanley Ash Collard who was a wine merchant.
However, the information does go on to say that the numbering has been
changed along the Old Dover Road.
Further research has found the newspaper cutting from 1900 below that
gives an address of Ivy Lane.
|
Kentish Gazette, 6 February 1844.
The Late Robbery of a Pensioner.
Mr. R. Howard, of the "Duke of York," Ridingate, has forwarded us a
letter, contradicting
the statement which appeared in Thursday’s Kent Herald, of the man Dalby
being
robbed at his house.
The landlord says a party of six persons were all together in one room,
and had two pots
of beer. They all left in company, one not departing before another, and
no attempt to
plunder the man was made during their stay. The robbery must therefore
have been
effected, either before, or subsequent to the visit of the party to this
house.
|
|
Kentish Gazette, 10 September 1850.
On the annual licensing day (Thursday last) our city magistrates
suspended the following licenses:-
"Military Tavern," King Street;
"Eight
Bells," King Street;
"Duke of York," Riding Gate;
"Kentish Arms," Jewry
Lane;
"Eagle," Whitehorse Lane;
"Golden Cross," Northgate;
"Queen's
Head," Northgate;
"City of London," Tower Street;
"Duke's Head," Wincheap;
"True Briton," Northgate;
"Royal George," Northgate;
"Queen's
Arms," Northgate; and
"Three Grenadiers," Military Road.
|
|
Kentish Gazette, 14 January 1851.
DEATH.
Howard:- Jan 7, at Canterbury, Mr. Richard Howard, age 79 years, many
years landlord of the "Duke of York," Canterbury.
|
|
Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette, Saturday 23 September 1882.
The Riding Gate Improvement.
A meeting of the Dane John Committee was held on Monday morning on
the side of the Old "Duke of York,"
Riding Gate, to consider the question of taking down, the present
unsightly gateway, and substituting an iron
bridge in its place. There were present the Mayor (G. R. Frend,
Esq.), Alderman Bateman and Goulden;
Counselors Wiltshier, Wells, W. R. Young, Wright, W. N. Wightwick,
Lazarus, and Wilson. After some discussion,
it was proposed to recommend to the Council that the gateway be
removed; that the road be widened, to make
the descent from St. Georges Terrace more easy; and that a wider
rising path to the walk on the ramparts be
constructed. An amendment was put, recommending a light ornamental
Iron Bridge as planned by the
Surveyor. The amendment was lost, and the original motion was agreed
to. It was also decided to suggest to
the Council the desirability of converting the site and garden of
the "Duke of York" into a recreation ground for
children.
|
LICENSEE LIST
HOWARD Richard 1824-47+
     
(Watling Street
)
PRETT Edward (Edmund) 1858-82+ (age 60 in 1871 )
     
LAMBERTON William G 1903-22+ (age 47 in 1911)
  
https://pubwiki.co.uk/DukeofYork.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1824
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Stapleton's
Guide 1838
From the Pigot's Directory 1840
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Post Office Directory 1862
Greens
Canterbury Directory 1868
From the Post Office Directory 1874
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Kelly's Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1922
|
