DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Dover, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 31 March, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Barry Smith and Paul Skelton

Earliest 1862

(Name from)

Recruiting Sergeant

Latest 1863+

Buckland

Dover

 

Thomas Cattermole in 1863, was the sole licensee I could find to connect with this one. That poor chap must have felt that you just could not win.

Previous to this pub being called the "Recruiting Sergeant" I have heard it mentioned with the same licensee as being referred to as the "Raw Material." It is also difficult to imagine a house with either of these names being packed to the doors.

After seizing a troublesome customer one day and depositing him outside on the pavement, he was immediately charged himself by a passing Constable for obstructing the highway.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 21 November, 1863.

INFRINGEMENT OF LICENSE

Thomas Cattermole, landlord of the "Recruiting Sergeant" public-house, Buckland, was fined £3 and the costs, for having his house open at an improper hour on Sunday last; in default two months' imprisonment.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent Intelligencer, 19 December, 1863.

The early business before the Bench was the transfer of a public-house license, - The "Recruiting Sergeant," Buckland.

Unfortunately the paper gave no further information.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

Last pub licensee had CATTERMOLE Thomas 1863+

 

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