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Mount Pleasant?
Minster
Post Office Directory 1874 mentions a "Mount Pleasant" at Minster. No
further information is given but I have reference to another pub in the area
called "Prospect House" and addressed as Mount Pleasant, so I am assuming
the pub was named after the area.
Further research suggests that they are one and the same.
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Kentish Gazette, 30 April 1844.
MINSTER, THANET.
George Emilius Hannam, Esq., having lately retired from the occupation
of Alland Grange, in the parish of Minster, Thanet, regaled
his workmen with an excellent dinner, at the "Mount Pleasant Inn," on
Saturday last.
The men were loud in their plaudits of their
late master for his kindness to them, not only as a master but as a
friend to help them when occasion required. This gentleman has
been a resident of Alland Grange about 14 years, during which time most
of the men have been in his employ. We may say of him
that he was always ready to lend an helping hand to any that were in
need; and likewise to any society that was formed for the
benefit of the agricultural labourers, and that his generous acts will
be long borne in the breasts of those who really appreciated his
worth.
The farm is now in the occupation of Harry Neame. Esq., who has
already given ample proof that he will be like his
predecessor, a good master and willing friend. Three cheers were given
for G. E. Hannam, Esq. and H. Neame, Esq., after which
the happy party departed to their homes, highly delighted with the
afternoon’s entertainment.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 12 September 1848.
ISLE OF THANET. Burglaries.
In consequence of upwards of thirty felonies and burglaries having been
committed within the last two months, by a gang from the metropolis, and
producing the greatest alarm, a special sessions of the county
magistrates resident in Thanet, was, upon the requisition of two
principal inhabitants, on Friday last, held at the "Mount Pleasant"
public-house, situate near the Union Workhouse. Thirty-nine persons,
residing in the parishes of Thanet, were sworn in as social constables
by John Boys, and Thomas Blackburn, Jun., Esqrs., for three months, and
received staves of office. The justices at the same time intimated, that
on Wednesday next, at their weekly petty sessions, at the Town Hall, at
Margate, they would swear in the duly qualified persons who were not
present at the preceding meeting.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 5 January, 1861.
A BOY DROWNED AT THE THANET UNION.
On Saturday last, C. J. Fox, Esq, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the
"Mount Pleasant Inn," Minster, on the body of James Bright, an inmate of
the Thanet Union-house, aged twelve years. It appeared that at about one
o’clock on Thursday the deceased and a boy named Wilmott, 10 years of
age, went to the drying ground adjoining the union, for the purpose of
looking at a bird trap they had set there. The ground was covered with
snow, and in passing over a tank sunk in the ground, the trap having
been left open, the deceased fell into the water, 7ft. or 8ft. deep. He
was got out in about half an hour. Isaac Boughey, who is entrusted with
the key of the tank-lid, said he generally locked it up at eight, and
unlocked it again in the morning, but on account of the snow he did not
do so on Wednesday night. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
Death," with a recommendation that the guardians should have the tank in
question closed, and a pump fixed thereto.
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Thanet Advertiser, Saturday 5 October 1889.
The "Mount Pleasant Inn."
At the adjourned licensing session, held at Ramsgate, on Monday, the
license of the "Mount Pleasant Inn," Minster, the renewal of which was
ordered to stand over at the Annual Licensing Sessions, was renewed to
the present holder, Baron Walter Stratford.
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LICENSEE LIST
SHEPPARD William 1874+
STRATFORD Baron Walter Oct/1889+
From the Post Office Directory 1874
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