RAILWAY TAVERN Pubs of Whitstable

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Sort file:- Whitstable, October, 2021.

Page Updated:- Saturday, 16 October, 2021.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Railway Hotel

Latest 1970s

(Name to)

67 (41 18801) Harbour Street

Whitstable

Above photo taken circa 1900s, showing electioneering outside the "Railway Tavern."

Above photo, early 1900's taken from Ludgate Hill.

Above photo, 1923, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

From the Kentish Chronicle, 8 September, 1860.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S PETTY SESSIONS. Saturday.

This was the annual general licensing day for the various public-houses situate within the Home Division. All the old licenses were renewed, and there were the following applications for new ones.

William Madams, for the "Railway Tavern," Whitstable. Mr. Tassell, of Faversham, appeared to support the application, and Richard Mutton, for the "Plough and Harrow," Bridge.

The applications were granted.

John Anderson, for the "Stag," at Whitstable and T Ougham, for the "Rose," Whitstable. The decision upon these two cases will not be announced until the adjourned licensing day, the 29th September.

From the Kentish Chronicle, 12 September, 1863.

ANNUAL LICENSING DAY.

New spirit licenses were granted Mr. Stephen Richard Perkins, of the “Railway Tavern.”

Stephen Richard Perkins, with his wife Keziah, shows up in 1851 as a sail maker from Whitstable at 7 Hibernia Place, Ramsgate.

One time Fremlin's tied house, later became a Punch Tavern during the late 1960s or early 1970s and went by the name of the "Punch Tavern". Not to be confused with the "Railway Inn."

LICENSEE LIST

PERKINS Stephen Richard & Keziah 1858-74+ (age 43 & 44 in 1871)