GEORGE Pubs of Margate

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Sort file:- Margate, April, 2022.

Page Updated:- Monday, 25 April, 2022.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1700s

George Inn

Latest 1968

(Name to)

44 King Street (44 Hawley Street)

Margate

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo showing a Butcher's Outing, 18 May 1913.

Above photos 1953.

Above photo, date unknown, by the Margate History Society.

Above photo, date unknown kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Above photo taken with permission from Saunders family web.

Above map, date unknown.

Above photo, 2012, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Above windows, circa 2016, by Darkstar.

Above photo circa 2000.

Above Google image 2018.

The George Inn, was adjacent to the Tudor House and situated opposite Love Lane and King Street. In 1943 the King Street part was destroyed when a bomb hit the Holy Trinity Church. However a few of the original Cobb's Ale leaded windows managed to be saved.

Prior to 1833 the pub was owned by the Symond's Brewery of Ramsgate, but they sold the business and pub to Francis Cobb and Son, brewer also in Ramsgate that same year.

One of Margate's Oldest pubs this was once a coaching inn and the livery stables which were next door to the "George Inn" became Swinford's Yard in the mid 1800's and then Reeves Mineral Water Factory. Parts of the stables were still standing till 2011 when new mews cottages were built on the site. These reached from the back of the "George" to the entrance of the College Centre, the site of Bloxhams Green. The green, was later the site of Margate College and the area named after George Bloxham, who also ran the "George" pub in the late 1700's.

George IV is portrayed in full Coronation robes on the wall of the "George Hotel." The building suffered some damage in WW2 from the same bombs that destroyed nearby Holy Trinity Church.

Further damage was sustained in the 1953 Storm, the "George Inn" being flooded, and the water measured about 5 feet high inside the building.

One time Cobbs tied house. Cobbs were founded in 1673, but Whitbread took them over early 1968 and typically closed the brewery, (well who wants the competition, buy them out and shut them down) the pub closed around about the same time.

In 2006 the further damage occurred from an arson attack, and was later refurbished and turned into an Indian Restaurant which it is operating as today. (2016).

On 6th December 2019 it reopened as a public house again, this time with the new name of the "George and Heart."

Kentish Gazette, 2 April, 1783.

John Mutton.

Late servant to John Foot, Esq., Begs leave to acquaint his friends that he has taken the "George Inn," at Margate, those Gentlemen who please to favour him with their Company, may depend on the best Accommodation, as he will spare no Pains to merit the Favours of the Public.

From the Kentish Gazette, Friday 17 August, 1798.

GEORGE INN, MARGATE.

Michael Mascall returns his best thanks to his friends and the public for the great encouragement he has already experienced in the above house; and, for their better accommodation, has taken a private Stable-Farm in King Street, opposite the "George Inn;" in which are good stables, with stalls and other conveniences.

M. Mascall begs to add, that he has no connection whatever with the livery stables of Mr. Samuel Bloxham adjoining to the "George Inn;" but that there is a free passage through Mr. Bloxham's stable-yard to and from the "George Inn;"- would therefore be obliged to his friends to ride up to the "George Inn" door.

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 15 November 1859.

DEATHS.

On the 9th inst., at the "George Inn," Margate, Elizabeth, widow of the late William Read, in her 75th year.

LICENSEE LIST

BLOXHAM George 1700s

BLOXHAM Samuel 1774+