120 Snargate Street

The Ordnance is shown on the left of the trams. The photograph was taken around 1920 and is by kind permission of Philip Smye-Rumsby, managing director of Smye-Rumsby Ltd.

This was the former "Old Post Office", "Prince Arthur" and "Victory". The last name must have been adopted in 1895. An “Ordnance Arms” addressed simply 'Paradise', was kept by Ruttom in 1805. A bomb landing on the roof on 20 May 1916 must have shook the building somewhat and it may have been a victim in world war two also. I do not know. It just seems to vanish into thin air after 1938. I found no evidence of its closure but I found no mention of it either after that year.

LICENSEE LIST

CLEMPSON C 1895

HARRISON Arthur James to Jan/1900

EGGLETON Stephen Jan/1900+ (Late of Henley-on-Thames)

SHEPPARD Richard Thomas 1902 end

FOOKES James R 1903

DURANCE George Henry 1903-04 end

MINOLETTI Giacomo Guiseppe 1904

TAYLOR William James 1907-22 end

CORNWELL William J 1922-23 dec'd

CORNWELL Mrs N 1923

CORNWALL W E 1924

CORNWELL William John 1930

CORNWELL Mrs Ellen S 1932-38+

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1895

From the Post Office Directory 1903

From the Post Office Directory 1913

From the Post Office Directory 1922

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1924

From the Post Office Directory 1930

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1932-33

From the Post Office Directory 1938

From Pikes Dover Blue Book 1938-39

From the Dover Express