DOVER KENT ARCHIVES
PUB LIST   PUBLIC HOUSES Barry Smith and Paul Skelton

Earliest 1874

 Marquis of Waterford

Latest 29 Dec 1923

1 Union Row

Off Military Road

 

The Row dates from 1840 but Durand is our first contact with the trade in 1874 Post Office Directory 1874.

 

It does not show on maps of 1871. Plans for rebuilding, at a provisional cost of £800, were approved in 1903. The licence had changed hands five times between 1894 and 1899.

 

George Beer would have liked to transfer this licence in 1900 to a pub he intended building on the corner of Wyndham and Goschen Road. He was refused permission so perhaps he spent the money here instead.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 22 January, 1886. 1d.

On Tuesday evening, a supper was given at the “Marquis of Waterford Inn,” Union Row, by Mr. J. Collard, of Alkham to his Dover customers. The spread was an excellent one, the room prettily decorated, and the evening passed off very pleasantly.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 5 July, 1912.

MORE WINDOWS SMASHED

At the Dover Police Court on Saturday morning, before Messrs. P. W. J. Mackenzie (in the chair) G. C. Rubie and L. Bradley.

Henry Godden was charged with breaking a plate class window in the "Marquis of Waterford," Union Row, to the value of 16s. 8d., the property of Christina Bourner.

Christina Bourner said: Last Saturday, about 9 p.m. prisoner came into the bar under the influence of drink. I refused to serve him because I considered he had had enough. He then tried to make a disturbance, so I put him outside. The next thing I heard was a smash, and I went outside and saw the window broken and the prisoner going up the hill.

Ellen E. Lawrence said: I live at 9, Blucher Street. Last evening I was coming up the hill with two children. I saw the prisoner pick up  stone and throw it at the window, the stone rebounded. Prisoner then threw another, and this smashed the window.

The Chairman said in 1908, the prisoner was charged with breaking the same window, and he would be sent to Canterbury for one month's imprisonment, with hard labour.

 

 

A regular event during the days of the large garrisons. John Marsh put his life's savings into the pub in 1923 but misdemeanours at a nearby house gave the military sufficient reason to place the whole area out of bounds to troops and consequently break him.

 

It closed on 29 December 1923 when the Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910 was enforced. It was described as a practically new house, recently rebuilt, and fully licensed. George Beer was compensated with £1,012.10s. and Marsh received £100.

 

LICENSEE LIST

DURAND Daniel Post Office Directory 1874

BURTON George 1876-82 Post Office Directory 1882

Last pub licensee had BURTON William 1877

BURTON Mrs Naomi 1891-1895 Post Office Directory 1891

FRIEND Leonard 1895

GEDDES John 1895

ANDREWS Henry 1899 Kelly's Directory 1899

HARLAND Robert to Jan/1900 Dover Express

BURGESS James Jan/1900+ Dover Express

FLOYDD W T 1902 end

CROOK Thomas Henry 1902-04 end Post Office Directory 1903

FRIEND Mrs J 1904

THOMPSON Henry Edward 1904-10 end

Last pub licensee had FRIEND Mrs Jane E Jan/1910 dec'd Dover Express

FRIEND Matthew Adamson Jan/1910 (administrator) end

Last pub licensee had BOURNER Mrs Christina D 1910-15 dec'd Post Office Directory 1913

BOURNER W D 1915-20

WHIDDETT Percy 1922 end Post Office Directory 1922

MOLD or MOULD William Edwin 1922-23 end

MARSH John William 1923 end

 

Post Office Directory 1874From the Post Office Directory 1874

Post Office Directory 1882From the Post Office Directory 1882

Post Office Directory 1891From the Post Office Directory 1891

Kelly's Directory 1899From the Kelly's Directory 1899

Post Office Directory 1903From the Post Office Directory 1903

Post Office Directory 1913From the Post Office Directory 1913

Post Office Directory 1922From the Post Office Directory 1922

Dover ExpressFrom the Dover Express

 

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