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183 Beach Street
Top of Exchange Street
Deal
(175 Beach Street in 1832 & 1882
    )
Royal Exchange above shown extreme left, kindly supplied by Sue Solley. |
Above photo showing the Royal Exchange Hotel in 1947, kindly supplied by
Stuart Kinnon. |
Above shown Beach Street after a storm, date unknown. The "Royal
Exchange" on the left. At the end of the street was the "Napier
Tavern." |
"Royal Exchange" is shown extreme right. Also in picture extreme right
is the "Albion" and two doors away the "Deal
Cutter". |
Above photo by Paul Skelton, 26 July 2008.
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Photo kindly sent by Patricia Streater, 18 January 2010. On the left in
the photo is the turning into Griffin Street. I don't know what the
building is on the corner, the one with the verandas. After the portion
of red-brick wall is one end of the Mary Hougham Almshouses. On the
right of the Almshouses, in its own grounds, is the former North Deal
Boatmen's Rooms now converted to private residential. Then the turning
into Exchange Street. At the right of the photo is the "Royal Exchange". |
On the corner of Exchange Street, the Royal Exchange was at one time a
Charringtons pub selling London Ale.
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From the Kentish Post or Canterbury News-Letter, June
26 to June 29, 1751. Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.
Sale of a Deal Hooker, advertised as to be sold at the Sign of the Royal
Exchange at Deal.
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From the Kentish Post, 9 May, 1757. Kindly sent from
Alec Hasenson.
Auction sale of two leaseholds at the "Royal Exchange" in Deal, May
9th 1757.
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Sale of the manor of Chamberlain's Fee (KAO U.924 P
9/4) 1828
INNS in the sale catalogue
All that messuage, tenement and established inn called
or known by the name of the "Royal Exchange," in Beach Street,
with the yard, stables, outhouses, buildings and extensive premises thereunto belonging
and now used therewith - to other with a Dwelling House and premises in
Exchange Street adjoining thereto - and also Four Storehouses and a
large Yard and Warehouse adjoining, as the same are now in the several
occupations of Charles Warman and others. These
premises are subject to a lease granted to Edward Iggulden Esq. for 21
years from 29th September 1819 at the yearly rent of £5.1s.0d. (Note,
sold to Mr. Iggulden.)
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From the Kentish Gazette, 22 November, 1793.
"21st. About 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning a stranger arrived in the
diligence from Canterbury and went to bed at the "Royal
Exchange Inn." In the course of the forenoon he shifted his quarters
and went to the "New Inn" where he
requested a private room and bed. The waiter recognised him as one Lyons
who was wanted for forgery and who had escaped from an officer of Police
in London."
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From the Deal Borough Sessions Book, 26 September, 1799.
Under Act 39 Geo. 3, C. 79 - An Act for the effectual
suppression of Societies estabd. for Seditions & Treasonable purpose and
for better preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices mentions -
Royal Navy Lodge No. 157 and usually held at the "Royal Exchange Inn" in
the town of Deal on the 1st Monday of every month, 24th June and 27th
December.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 30 May, 1846. Price 5d.
DEATH
May 28, at Deal, Mr. Daniel Cork, of the "Royal Exchange Inn," aged
56 years.
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From the Deal, Walmer and Sandwich Telegram, 17
October, 1860.
Two advertisements of auctions of property at "Royal Exchange Inn" by
Worsfold & Hayward and Mercer & Edwards.
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From the Deal, Walmer, and Sandwich Mercury,
15 July, 1871. 1d.
BATHING AFTER 8 O'CLOCK
Three boys, whose parents reside at the North-end, were placed in the
dock by the Superintendent having been found bathing from the beach
opposite the "Royal Exchange Hotel," after eight o'clock on the previous
evening. The eldest boy was from Greenwich school, and had only arrived
in Deal on Saturday night.
The Mayor reprimanded and then discharged them, they having first
given their promise not to repeat the offence.
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(Next door to this pub was another, called the "Kings
Arms." Paul Skelton.)
Finally closed some time in the 1960s.
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From the Dover Mercury, 7 April, 2011.
CHANGING FACE OF TOWN'S SEAFRONT
AT THE turn of the century in the early 1900s, the seafront in north
Deal was a busy place for boatmen.
In those days there were buildings on both sides of Beach Street,
where a sea wall is now opposite the rows of properties facing The
Downs.
With more foreshore north of the "Royal Hotel," many boats were
moored along that stretch of coastline.
It is believed the old black and white postcard, featured in Gregory
Holyoake's Vintage Views of Deal and Walmer, dates from 1905 and the
view was taken by photographer J. Glencairn Craik at St George's Studio,
119 High Street, Deal. The three children with their picnic baskets are
posing for the cameraman near the Boatman's Rooms, which opened in 1884.
This distinctive building was also the headquarters of the Deal and
Downs branch of the Missions to Seamen, whose chaplain was the Rev
Thomas Treanor.
In the distance is the "Royal Exchange Hotel," on the left, advertising
Thompson and Son's Celebrated Walmer Ales, Stout and Porter with the
painted wall sign facing the junction with Exchange Street.
Steve Glover and Michael Rogers researched the business in their book
The Old Pubs of Deal and Walmer, discovering a few intriguing tales.
In 1793 a stranger arrived from Canterbury to stay at the inn and moved
out mysteriously the same day, later to be recognised as having escaped
from prison.
By the late 1820s the "Royal Exchange" had its own yard,
stables and outhouses, as well as neighbouring warehouses. A variety of
landlords were listed as running the business, and in 1910 the proprietor
was fined
£1 with costs almost totalling another £1 for permitting drunkenness on
the premises.
Eventually the "Royal Exchange" called orders and closed its
doors for the final time in
1965. The building was later converted into flats.
Properties on the right in
the photo were eventually demolished, although a few survived the Second
World War only to be knocked down as the beach was eroded.
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LICENSEE LIST
LORD Charles 1797-1804+ (Dover/Deal Directory Guide)
WARMAN Charles 1819+
BIRCH Robert 1823-28
 
ATKINS Thomas 1828-39
 
CORK Daniel to May/1846 dec'd
CORK Mrs Sarah 1847-62+
  
DONOGHUE Mrs C 1874+
TURTON S Miss 1882+
CRICK George Richard 1899+
BULLOCK Mrs R A 1908+
WADOUX Arthur 1913-22+
  
ROSS David Currie 1834+
HAGGER Dorothy Gladys Mrs 1938+
From the Pigot's Directory 1823
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Pigot's Directory 1839
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
From Melville's Directory 1858
From the Kelly's Directory 1862
From the Post Office Directory 1874
From the Kelly's Directory 1874
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the Kelly's Directory 1899
From Pikes 1908
From the Post Office Directory 1913
Deal Library List 1914
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From the Kelly's Directory 1934
From the Post Office Directory 1938
Deal Licensing Register
From the Dover Telegraph
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