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Stone Street
Cranbrook
Above photo, 2015, showing the "Bird in Hand" cottage next to the Tea
Rooms. |
Above photo, 2015, showing the back of the premises. |
The building is said to be sixteenth century and gained a Grade 2 listing
on 20 June 1967. Originally an Inn and later operated as an Alehouse and
common lodging house
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From the Sussex Advertiser, Lewes, Sussex, England. 6 February 1864.
PETTY SESSIONS Thursday Feb. 4.
Jesse Mercer, landlord of the "Bird-in-Hand" beer-shop in Stone-street, Cranbrook, was charged by Superintendent Ovenden, with having kept his
house open for the sale of beer before twelve o'clock on Sunday morning
the 24th of January.
P.C. Jordan said that he entered defendant's tap-room about five minutes
past eleven o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 24th of January, and
he there saw three persons, one of whom was a young man named Tompsett.
On looking under the seat he found nearly a quart of ale in a pot.
Defendant came into the room at the time, and said he had stood one pint
of the beer and the other belonged to a lodger.
Superintendent Ovenden said the house had been open from seven in the
morning until the time Jordan and himself entered about eleven, and when
he went up to the tap-room window someone gave a whistle which seemed to
be understood by the landlord. He said the beer was found under the seat
when they entered the room.
Defendant said the three persons were lodgers, and seemed to entertain
an opinion that he might sell beer to lodgers before twelve o'clock on
Sundays.
In reply to a question from the chairman, the superintendent said the
defendant's house was very badly conducted, and had been for some months
past. Spies were placed in front of the house to watch the approach of
the police, so that it was with difficulty the defendant could be
detected.
The Chairman said he was sorry to find a Cranbrook house so badly
conducted, but as there appeared to have been no prior conviction the
bench would not inflict the full amount of penalty, viz. £5; but he
hoped that the defendant would let this case operate as a caution, and
that in future no complaint would arise in reference to the manner in
which he carried on his business. He would be fined 40s., and 13s.
costs. The money was paid.
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Maidstone Telegraph, Saturday 31 December 1870.
Farley, East. A Man Frozen To Death.
Much painful excitement was occasioned in this village on the the
morning of Christmas Day, by the discovery on the road side of the body
of a man whose death had evidently resulting from exposure to the
attempts cold of the previous night.
The deceased, Samuel Kinnairde, a carpenter, 45 years of age, had been
for some little time residing at Farleigh, and was believed to belong
to Cranbrook.
On Saturday night he drank heavily, at the "Bird in Hand," Coxheath, and
on leaving, at about 12 o'clock, was observed to stagger. He went on his
way, however, and was not seen or heard of till 7 o'clock on the
following morning, when he was found dead as already related. From marks
in the snow near the spot where the body was lying, the unfortunate man
appears to have reeled, to have made an inefficient attempt to retain
his footing, and then to have fallen to the ground. He does not seem to
have endeavoured to rise again, and the probability is that, overcome by
the effects of the drink he had taken, he fell asleep, and the extreme
cold deprived him of life.
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From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 6 February, 1914.
CRANBROOK PETTY SESSIONS.
FOUR LICENSED HOUSES NOTIFIED FOR REMOVAL.
At these Sessions yesterday. Mr. W. B. Tylden-Patterson (in the chair)
and a full Bench of Magistrates, Supt Fowle presented his report,
stating all the houses had been well-conducted, and there was a decrease
of drunkenness by 11 compared with last year. The Chairman announced
that the following four houses would be deferred to to the next Court
for consideration on the ground of redundancy:
The "Duke of York," the "Paper Makers' Arms," the "Bird in Hand," and
the "Prince Albert." The whole of the other licenses would be renewed.
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LICENSEE LIST
MERCER Jesse 1864+
MIDMORE Benjamin 1881+ (age 67 in 1881 )
WHATMAN Edgar 1891-1901 (age 45 in 1901)
VANE Thomas Vane 1901-03+ (also lodging keeper age 65 in 1901)
FRANKS George William 1911-13+ (also stoker & engine driver age 40 in
1911)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/BirdInnHand.shtml
Census
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