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PUB LIST   PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1850-

 Liberty Inn

Latest 1861+

Crabble Hill/Dodds Lane

Former Liberty Inn

Dover Mercury 19 April 2000 Picture 8/ 7925E/00

MANY USES: Above:- The former Liberty Inn, with the Three Cups just visible beyond it.

 

Liberty Inn once stood on Crabble Hill

DID you know there used to be another pub between the Gate Inn and the Three Cups on Crabble Hill?

This was the Liberty Inn and it was still possible to see the name painted on the brickwork at the bottom of Dodds Lane.

The name is recorded in the census returns of 1861 and notes that it is near the Crabble Toll Gate.

I remember it as Nicholls' shop but in 1900 it was Adams' bakery.

Some years ago there was a builder's opposite which was the old Toll Gate House. We used this upper floor as our Rover Scout Den before the Second World War, thanks to Mr Hobday.

Joe Harman.

 

Barry Smith was unconvinced that this was ever a public house and didn't see any evidence to suggest it. I haven't seen the census of 1861 either, so at present I am only going on Joe Harman's article above.

The evidence, I believe has just been found by Peter Moynihan who points out to me a passage he has found in the Kentish Gazette of 22 August 1850 which highlights the selling of the following lots:-

Lot 16 A freehold brewhouse, with stable, buildings, yard, and premises, situate near Crabble Gate.

Lot 17 A desirable freehold beershop, known by the name of the "Liberty", adjoining the last lot.

 

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