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Worthington Street (Worthington's Lane and Gardiner's Lane)
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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 28 February 1958.
This picture of Worthington Street - then known as Worthington Lane
- gives a good indication of the narrowness of this thoroughfare before
the widening in 1895. The shop in the left foreground, now (1958)
occupied by Messrs. Clout, was then run by Mr. Edwin as an outfitters
establishment. Some of the cottage property on that side of the street
is still occupied by shops.
All the properties on the right-hand side of the street was
demolished in the 1895 widening. The pile of rubble seen in the picture
is now (1958) the site of Messrs. Olby's premises. Here stood Mr. E.
Longley's butchers shop. Mr. Longley was a brother of Tom Longley,
licensee of the "Star Inn," Church Street, who weighed 42 stone and was
the heaviest man in England, and it was here that Tom spent his only
holidays - a week every August, sitting all day in a huge chair behind
his brother's butchers block.
There was another butcher's shop Charles Wood's, at the other end of
the street, shown in the photo above, where Messrs. Boots premises now stands (1958)
and on the other side Mr. J. H. Morris's baker's shop. There were
also two licences, the "Olive Branch," on the present site (1958) of the
Prudential Offices, and the "Why Not," directly opposite Messrs. Wood
and Son's ironmongery store.
Standing in the middle of the street when this photograph
was taken were Messrs. H. E. Stilgoe, the Borough Engineer, W. H. Grigg,
builder and contractor, and J. Lockwood, the corporation's foreman. |
The street has held its present title since 1895 when the thoroughfare
was widened. It was nearly called Military Avenue following that. The pub
was on the corner with Queen's Gardens and was a beerhouse up to 1842 when
it obtained its spirit licence. An outlet of Ash and Company, it could well
have been theirs since 1859 when Walker sold for £360. The road widening
meant the end of course but the brewer received £900 from Dover Corporation
and possibly another £650 for the licence. That being accepted, by 1896 the
licence had lapsed and the property removed.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 26 November, 1842. Price 5d.
Joseph Friend, publican, was fined £50, (afterwards mitigated to
£12;10), for selling one pennyworth of tobacco without a licence.
(I am assuming that this was at the "Olive
Branch" and that the licensee was Suzannah Friend's husband, although I
have no proof that he had any connection to Suzannah or the pub, and I'm
just going on the dates and surname. There are no other Friend's I know
of around 1842. So much detective work in this sort of research. If I am
correct perhaps after the above incident, the licence
was transferred to Suzannah and the pub obtained a spirit and tobacco
licence. Paul Skelton.)
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 23 September, 1843. Price 5d.
DOVER POLICE COURT
Susanna Friend, landlady of the "Olive Branch," Queen's Gardens, was
fined 12s. including costs, for assaulting Sarah Lloyd, by burning her
with a flat iron. She paid the fine.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 24 January, 1846. Price 5d.
TO BE SOLD WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
THE eligible FREEHOLD PUBLIC HOUSE, called the "OLIVE BRANCH," in
Worthington Lane.
Enquire on the Premises, or of Mr. EDWARD KNOCKER, Solicitor.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer,
28 June, 1867.
INFRINGEMENT OF LICENSE
John Spice, landlord of the "Olive Branch" public house in
Worthington's Lane, was summoned for infringing his license by having
his house open for the sale of drink on Sunday morning.
Sergeant Barton found two men in front of the bar at twenty minutes
to twelve on Sunday morning last. Both belonged to the town. They were
drinking, and on seeing him enter they went into a back room and placed
their pots, which contained beer, under a form. The landlady was
present.
The defence was that a man who was in the habit of leaving his keys
of a stable at the house came in for the keys, and asked for a pint of
beer. The landlady's daughter, a little girl, was alone in the bar and
drew it without knowing the wrong she was committing. Mrs. Spice, who
appeared in answer to the summons, said that she and her husband had
conducted the "Olive Branch" for twelve years without a complaint, and
had never had occasion to call in the police.
The Magistrates took the extenuating circumstances into
consideration, and find the defendant 10s., and the costs, which was
paid.
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LICENSEE LIST
FRIEND Joseph 1842?
FRIEND Susannah 1843
COLYER George Sept/1846+
 
MARSH Mrs 1851
LIPSHAM 1854
PHILLIPS George 1858-59+
SPICE Johnathan 1855-67+
SPICE Mrs Mary Mar/1870-Nov/80
FORRESTER William Nov/1880-82
GILLIS Mrs Sarah Ann 1891-96 end
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beer retailer) (I believe she married Stephen Smith Wickenden.)
WICKENDEN Stephen Smith to June/1904
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895
From the Dover Telegraph
From the Dover Express
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