MONASTERY INN Pub of Canterbury

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Canterbury, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 31 March, 2021.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton & Rory Kehoe

Earliest 1866-

Monastery Inn

Latest 1882+

12 Church Street. / St. Paul's

Longport

Canterbury

Above photo circa 1900, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo 1920s, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above sky-shot circa 1920, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, circa 1937, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above map 1874 identified by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo identified by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo and overlay by Rory Kehoe 2017.

This has only been traced for a few years at present, between 1874 and 1882.

Further information from Rory Kehoe says that the "Monastery Inn" and "Three Stags" are both shown on the Ordinance Survey Map of 1874. The "Monastery Inn" on the corner of Church Street, St. Paul's, and Monastery Street, with the "Monastery Inn" at 12, Church Street, Saint Paul's but no street number for the "Three Stags." They were situated almost opposite each other.

East Kent Gazette, Saturday 5 December 1874.

Canterbury. Fatal Fall From a Scaffold.

On Friday evening for 27th ultimo, Mr. Coroner Delasaux held an inquest at the "Monastery Tavern," Longport, on the body of Edward Hadley, age 73, a builders labourer.

It appeared that, on the afternoon of the previous day, the deceased was standing on a ladder reared against a house and Castle Street, on which he was at work, and while in the act of reaching out for something on the building, the ladder slipped and fell to the ground, he falling with its.

He was picked up, bleeding from both ears and insensible, and was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after 5 o'clock.

The occurrence appeared to have been purely accidental, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.

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STENT Charles Frederick Sept/1866-Aug/68