Landlords & Landladies

The Public House has been an important social institution since medieval times. As the authorities have always looked on pubs with some degree of suspicion, regarding them as potential centres for dissension, drunkenness, and disorder.

Over the centuries hundreds of thousands of people have run pubs. Indeed it stills remains an ambition for many a drinker, although few realise how hard the work is.

Harwich & Dovercourt Victuallers Association (1964).

Many children followed their parents into running pubs, Girls started as barmaids or working in the kitchen, while boys became potboys or ostlers. It was extremely common for publicans, particularly in smaller establishments, to work only part-time, Combining running a bar with other work. During the day running the pub was left in the hands of his wife and other members of the family. a number of women also ran pubs, often taking over on the death of their husbands or fathers.

The Site lists original content on Pub History Census and Trade Directory entries from the Post Office, Kelly’s and Pigots Trade Directories, and has entries up until 1937.

If there is not an entry for a year, it is because I do not have this information. please help us to complete the data.

Alma Inn / Alma Dining Rooms

25 Kings Head Street, Harwich.

1862-1867 William Hammond
1871-1883 Thomas Jennings
1884-1886 John Guy
1887-1888 Alfred Hallums
1889-1895 James Ward
1904-1905 John Stanton
1906-1913 Thomas Reed
1914-1923 John Reed
1925-1925 Alfred Johnson
1926-1933 Henry William Aldridge
1932-1954 William Chambers
1954-1987 Arthur Chambers
1987-1990 Alan & Pat Markham
1990-1991 Clive & Jane ?
1991-1992 Norman & June Moore
1992-1997 Richard Watts & Susan Gibson
1999-2007 Stephen Clark & Saidie Reader
2007-2009 Kelly Francis & David Connolly
2010- Nick May

Thomas Benjamin Hill Jennings landlord of the “Alma Inn” was born in Sheerness, Kent in 1832/33 and died in 1890.

William James Chambers before coming to Harwich in 1933 he used to operate one of the first motor buses on the Orford-Ipswich route. He also took over a Royal Mail contract in horse and cart, operating from Orford to Campsea Ashe.

Arthur Chambers family came to Harwich due to the talk about the Development of Bathside bay, his father then took over the Alma in 1932 at the time nearly all of the publicans were pensioners, the family went onto be connected with the Alma up to 1987.

Arthur Chambers

Anchor Hotel

Stour Road, Bathside.

1870-1894 James Spracklin
1898-1900 Frederick Ward
1908-1917 Charles Lewis Hills
1922-1929 William Harvey
1933-1937 Kate Harvey
-1953 Pearl Lofts
1953-1966 Dennis Noseley
1967- Tom Doran
1970’s Ollie Marston
1982-1987 Tony & Iris Partridge
1987-1988 Peter & Irene McDonald
1988-1989 Alan & Florena ?
1989-1992 George & Jill King
1993- George & Maria Newberry
Bill & Andree Race
1997- Ray & Karen Baldry
Wayne Rampling
Pearl & Elsie Lofts

Mr. Pearl Lofts -Popular licensee of the Anchor Hotel, Mr. Lofts was a lifelong resident of the town. During the first World War he served in Salonika with the Royal Army service corps and was a keen member of the British legion. Pearl Lofts, 67, was one of eight people in the town who drowned in the 1953 floods when water gushed into the cellar.

Angel Inn

Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1768- Richard Banfield
1791-1823 Joseph Clark
1823-1829 Mary Ann Rowland
1832-1841 Ann Rowland
1845-1848 Daniel Grigson
1848-1855 Alexander Young
1855-1861 J. Lewis
1861-1862 John Watson
1862-1871 Maria Watson
1874-1878 Robert Lewis
1878-1892 William Carter
1906-1922 Henry Tyrell Dawson
1925-1933 Harry Taylor
1937-1938 Lilly H Kettle
1938- Cyril Baker
1951-1953 Herbert Marshall
1953-1953 Horace Bush
1953-1974 Alfred Kendal
-1986 Laurence Smith
1986-1988 Andrew & Donna Patterson
1988-2000 Mike & Julie Kirk
Alfred Kendall

The Sudden death on Monday 13^th June 1862 of Mr James Watson the landlord of the Angel Inn, he had been ailing, but nothing serious was apprehended, he was taken suddenly worse and died, it is supposed from the effects of a diseased heart.

The Building was sold to the Milsom group in 2000 and restored as an annex to the Pier hotel.

British Flag

57 West Street, Harwich.

1851-1867 Simeon Edmonds
1870-1874 James Chatten
1878-1881 John Carrington
1881-1898 Frederick Kettle
1898-1907 Ernest Knights
1908-1910 Joseph Sherman
1911-1914 Thomas William Stevens
1917-1922 Mary Ann Amelia Stevens
1923-1937 Horace Harry Stewart Tootell
1937-1947 Claude Whitnall
1947-1984 Lydia Whitnall
1984- Roy & Eileen Hopkins
1988- Dave & Joan Lammas
2001- Alan Robinson & Christine Simpson
-2015 Lee & Cindy Campbell
2015- Mark & Di Taylor

Lydia Whitnall, was born in 1920, appropriately in the British Flag pub. Her Grandfather had been licensee of the British Flag since 1890 and her mother since 1923.

She attended the Esplanade School until she was seven and the Main Road School, leaving at fourteen.

After school she stayed at home and helped behind the scenes in the pub, but at eighteen she was allowed to start serving at the bar. She was married from the pub in 1944 and raised four children in the pub. She took over the licence of the pub in 1947 when her father died and ran the pub for the next 37 years.

Mark & Di Taylor

Coach and Horses

2 Church Street, Harwich.

1822-1829 Samuel Lucas
1832-1839 Elizabeth Lucas
1841-1846 Samuel Chittock
1848-1862 William Read
1867-1870 James Buck
1870-1872 Daniel White Howard
1874-1886 William Gooding
1890-1895 Jonathan Gooding
1898-1910 Robert Martin
1912-1917 William Newman
1922-1925 Alfred Reeman
1925-1927 Bernard D. Harvey
1927 George Clover
1931 Albert Lichard Newell
1931-1932 William H. Morgan
1933-1934 Henry Oliver
1934-1936 David Miller
David Miller – Coach & Horses

The Coach & Horses closed 1936, and was once a showroom for Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies, today it forms part of a private residence.

Duke of Edinburgh /The Billy/William V

65 West Street, Harwich.

1832-1839 James Pain
1845-1863 James Woods
1867-1870 Charles Warren
1870-1872 Robert Barnes
1874-1886 Robert Martin
1890-1891 Sophia Laws
1894-1900 William Jasper
1902-1909 Harry King
1910-1913 Edgar Thomas Bryant
1914-1926 Harry Joseph Samuel Balls
1929-1933 William Beisley
1933- Frederick Hemsley
1948-1951 Ernest Richardson
1952- C Jones
1954-1967 Edward & Anne Ellis
1967-1980 Harry & Margaret Shean
1986-1988 Alan & Mandy ?
1988-2000 Sylvia & Alan Todd
2000-2001 Michelle Barrowcliffe & Heidi Broom
2001-2010 Dean & Jolene Bull

The Billy closed in 2010 the pub had previously been called the Harwich Arms, William the Fourth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

William Jasper was born in Rotherhithe the son of Henry Jasper & Ann Gardiner. He was married three times, they initially lived in London before moving to Middlesbrough William died 18 Feb 1902 in Long Ditton Surrey. For the majority of his life William was a Boilermaker & this is the occupation that is cited on his death certificate. However both his children George & Edith gave his occupation as either Publican or Innkeeper on their marriage certificates.

Anne & Edward Ellis

Dukes Head

22 Church Street, Harwich.

1765- James Haystead
1791-1823 Richard Cork
1823-1838 Robert Pooley Feller
1839-1841 Margaret Feller
1841-1841 John Pinner
1841-1845 Elizabeth Stebbing
1845-1847 John Pinner
1848-1851 Edgar Alexander
1851-1855 Eliza Mullett
1855-1873 Francis Claxton
1874-1877 John Tye
1878-1882 William Jacklin
-1885 Charles Burroughs
1885-1905 Diana Burroughs
1906-1921 Thomas Jennings
1922-1925 William Bates
1925-1929 Thomas Dyer
1929- Frank D. Dyer
-1940 Mrs. Dyer
1940- Owen Richardson
1941-1942 Ernie & Norah Richardson
1951-1952 Albert Rowland
1952-1953 Walter Marchant
1953-1971 William & Kit Ingram
William Ingram

Last Orders. 6th June 1971. Sunday night was a time for present giving, mixed with songs, merriment and memories at the Duke’s Head. The pub, which has been run by William & Kitty Ingram for the past 18 years, closed its doors for the last time.

To Mrs Ingram, her husband, and the Duke’s Head “regulars” it was a sad occasion, Yet they put a bold face on it and held a week of farewell parties, culminating in the big close down on Sunday night to the strains of “Auld Lang Syne”.

Both Kit and her husband received gifts, which showed how much they had been appreciated at the Duke. “I thought I would weep, but I didn’t said Kit.

Duke of Norfolk. / Privateer

13 Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1832-1938 Jonathan Gardiner
1839-1844 William Ragen
1845-1851 Benjamin Branch
1851-1863 James Peachy
1867-1870 John Huff
1870-1872 Abraham Lloyd
1874-1879 Alexander McMillan
1879-1881 William Newson
1881-1887 Joseph Earney
1891-1894 William Carr
1895-1901 Frederick Martin
1902-1915 Frederick Tann

In 1930 the building was stripped of its antique features and the building was finally demolished in 1947.

Duke of Wellington

18 Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1848-1850 William Ragn
1851-1851 Thomas Denney
1851-1877 James Morley
1878-1889 George Sillitoe
1890-1891 Louisa Sillitoe
1891-1893 Minnie Sillitoe
1894-1897 Henry Honey
1898-1901 William Brown
1902-1925 Frank Stanley Greenwood
1929-1932 Arthur J. Mouser
1933-1937 Harry Browns
1937- Arthur Lionel Todd
1951-1953 Bill Chambers
1954- Chris Hart
1955-1959 Eddie Baker
1968- Charles & Ruby Burgess
1970’s Jennie & Pete Smith
1987-1989 Tony & Sue Short
1989-1990 Tony & Lynn Lidster
1990-1991 Adam & Dennis ?
1991-1991 Jona ?
1992-1993 Mark Janda
1993-1995 “Closed”

Frank Stanley Greenwood (known as Stan) was born at Stutton in Suffolk in 1879. His father William Bowler Greenwood was a well-known butcher in the area, with several shops in Harwich and Walton, and in the eighteen-eighties was also licensee of the Cricketers public house in Manningtree, now known as the Crown.

Rose & Stan Greenwood

At the time of his marriage to Rose Callow in 1901, Stan was manager of the Ordnance Hotel in Felixstowe, he took over the licence of the Wellington soon after, and kept it until Rose died in 1927.

Elephant and Castle/Welcome Sailor/Haywain/Mariners/Shakers

11 West Street, Harwich.

1862-1867 Joseph Allen Cross
1867-1870 James Etherden
1870-1872 John Morris
1874-1879 James Downes
1881-1903 John Smith
1906-1918 Frank Garton
1922-1926 George Baker
1929-1951 Horace F. Goldsmith
-1956 William Culley
1950’s Albert Gartland
1960s’ Donald Dalby
1962- Fred Hinton
1970’s Tom Carney
-1980 Joseph & Margaret Carney
1980-1982 **Closed**
1982- Peter Smy & David Lewsy
1985- Tom & Pat Bishop
-2009 Bill Milligan
2009- Becky Gawn
Albert Gartland

Previously known as the Golden Lion, Welcome Sailor, it was Re-built in 1896 and renamed Elephant & Castle until its closure in 1979. The pub reopened in 1985 as The Haywain, and in 2002 as the Mariners.

Foresters Arms

5 Church Street, Harwich.

1867-1870 Elijah Race
1871-1873 Henry Bateman
1874-1879 Mary Ann Bateman
1881-1913 Daniel Barwood
1914-1925 Harriett Barwood
1925-1941 Frederick C. Barwood

Fred Barwood.

The Foresters Arms was an ale house from 1800 to 1941, Three generations of Barwood’s kept the pub before serious damaged by incendiaries forced them out in World War II.

After Daniel Barwood’s death, his widow Harriet was the licensee from 1914 until 1925. From 1925 until its closure in 1941 due to war damage, Frederick was licensee, when Foresters closed, he moved to the Golden Lion and was licensee there until 1950. Foresters was restored in 1953 by Winifred Cooper, MBE, President of The Harwich Society, it remained her home for nearly 50 years.

It is now the headquarters of The Harwich Society

Globe

5 Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1765- Sarah Burn
1791-1822 Robert Grisnett
1823-1846 John Etherden
1848-1875 Robert Orvis
1878-1903 William Kettle
1906-1918 Albert Lake
1922-1934 Ethel Phillips
1937- James Phillips
1951-1953 Ronald Monks
1957-1959 Wilson Hailey
1959-1977 Arthur & Iris Andrews
1977-1980 Gordon & Valerie Bray
1978-1980 John & Kate Verrall
1980- Brian & Margaret Allen
1985-1987 Allan Wiltshire
1987-1988 Tony & Gill Cutter
1988-1990 Keith & Margaret Shakesbury
1990-1992 Jack & Dorothy ?
1992-1993 Steve & Angela Baker
1993- Gayle & Chris ?
1993-1998 *Closed*
1998-2003 John & Terry Creek
2003- Steve Woolard & Tracy Bailey
Arthur & Iris Andrews

The Globe was the town’s oldest surviving pub. It began trading in 1753 when it was owned by Cobbold,who sold it at auction in 1837. after a short period of closure, it is trading as a popular pub again .

Golden Lion/Smugglers/Blazers/Treo’s Bar

17-18 George Street, Harwich.

1765- John Cope
1823-1824 William Weights
1828-1829 Thomas Galer
1867-1870 Henry Mangin
1871-1877 Henry Barnes Figgures
1878-1883 Annie Leatherland
1886-1899 Joseph Halls
1890-1896 Robert Martin
1899-1903 John Fleming
1906-1909 Ernest Alfred Knight
1910-1918 James Slater
1922-1924 Amy Slater
1925-1928 Frank Miles
1929-1934 Robert Last
1937- William Nunn
1941-1950 Frederick Barwood
Fred & Mabel Dean
Mrs Shrive
1950’s Alfie Mealing
1960’s Tom Howard
1968- Arnold Johnson
1970- Charles Jackson
1985-1987 John & Sam Walls
1987- Steve & Emma?
1988-1989 Paul & Beverley ?
1989- Lawrence & Jacqueline
2001-2001 Jody & Tony ?
2008- George & Jayne Priestnall

William Weights was landlord from 1823-1824 and from 1827 he had taken over the Kings Head in Market St. William died around 1828.

Great Eastern Railway Hotel

The Quay, Harwich.

1867-1869 Thomas Bolton
1870-1872 James Bellamy
1874-1877 Lizzie Bellamy
1878-1883 Thomas Bolton
1886-1889 John Grew
1890-1891 Arthur George King
1891-1891 John Cookson
1891-1893 Frederick Dunsford
1894-1896 Frederick Rees
1898-1915 Henry Christian Thomas
1917-1926 L. Sydney Smith
1926-1933 A. Ryan

The Great Eastern Hotel opened on the 12th July 1865. after losing trade after Parkeston Quay opened, and, after previous temporary closures, the hotel was eventually closed for good in 1933.

Half Moon

15 St. Austin’s Lane, Harwich.

1791-1822 Daniel Maldon
1823-1829 John Brown
1832-1938 John Godbold
1839-1854 Joseph Hunwick
1855-1861 Mrs E Hunwick
1862-1863 Joseph Charles Hunwick
1863-1866 Edward Gaskin
1867-1872 Abraham Garling
1874-1879 Mary Pryor
1881-1887 William Dowling
1890-1896 Mary Ann Dowling
1898-1900 George Francis Read
1902-1905 Herbert William Jessop
1906-1907 William Good
1908-1909 Charles Earle I ‘Anson
1910-1915 James Harvey
1917-1921 Ernest William Paine
1922-1926 Frederick Goodchild
1929-1934 Edward Ellis
1937- Charles Songer Manford
Florence Watson
1951- Alfred E Driscoll
1957-1969 Rose Pirie
1969-1973 Bert & Rose Copeland

Known to have been trading in 1753, The Half Moon closed its doors in the 1970’s before becoming Half Moon Antiques for some thirty years. Today it trades as the Thai Up The Quay Restaurant.

Hannover Inn

65 Church Street, Harwich.

1888-1910 William Lawrence
1910-1925 Harriet Dorman
1925- Fred Hockley
1939-1941 Ernie & Norah Richardson
1951-1963 Winifred E. Rudland
1963-1974 George Bernard
1974-1984 Graham Richardson
1984-1986 Brian & Carol Dean
1986-2016 Barry Mackness
2016- Robert & Teresa Ranson
2021- David Todd

James Henry Lawrence was born 20th May 1862 in Harwich, James was the eldest surviving son of William Lawrence born 1834 in Aspall, Suffolk and Laura long born 1834 in Harwich. His parents William and Laura ran the Hannover Square Dining rooms.

George Bernard

Harwich Arms

43 Kings Quay Street, Harwich

1823-1826 Francis Lord
1827-1861 Joseph Edwards
1862-1866 William Beaumont

William Tyrrell Beaumont was born in Harwich on 2nd October, 1847. The 1851 Census shows the 3 year old William Tyrrell living at 41 Church Street, Harwich, with his mother Maria and father William, who was then listed as a carpenter. Ten years later, the 1861 Census, shows that the family has moved to the Harwich Arms where father William is shown as a Carpenter and Victualler. whilst still at the Harwich Arms Inn, William (Snr.) passed away on 26th July 1866.

Kings Head

8 Market Street, Harwich.

1765- William Halstead
1791-1821 Jacob Bond
1822-1826 William Garred
1827-1831 William Weights
1832-1847 Sarah Weights
1848-1861 George Weights
1862-1866 Matilda Weights
1867-1869 William Lodge
1870-1877 John Hucks
1878-1880 Richard Edward Manhood
1881-1889 Edward Paine
1890-1891 Samuel Cracknell
1891-1893 Henrietta Cracknell
1894-1916 Frederick William Chambers
1917-1924 Jack Simpson
1925-1928 Charles Agar
1929- Frederick William Goodchild

Edward Paine

Edward Paine moved to Harwich from Tollesbury where his parents also ran the pub called the King’s Head. His dad was called William Pain and his mother Rosetta continued to run it until there was a robbery and her daughter and son in law took over the Tollesbury pub.

William Weights was landlord from 1827 before his death in around 1828, the Kings Head was then run by William’s second wife Sarah, her daughter Sophia Amelia Waights was a barmaid, and had a 7 month old child also called Amelia. Two female servants, a pot man and three lodgers also lived at the Kings Head in 1841.

By 1848 I believe that Sarah had married Mr Pilbrow. She seems to have left her daughter in the care of brother George Bridge Waights who took over The Kings Head,his niece Amelia was a barmaid.

By the 1861 census and 1862 Directory, George had died (1860) and his widow Amelia ran the Kings Head with help at the bar from Amelia.

Lifeboat Inn

34 Kings Head Street, Harwich.

1862-1868 Edward Saxby
1871-1875 Susannah Saxby
1878-1882 William Edward Duffy
1886-1890 Walter Sealey
1890-1918 Frederick Cooper Neale
1922-1924 Elizabeth Neale
1925-1932 George Gilchrist
1933-1937 Jessie Ross
1937- George Bertram Keeling
1951- Charles R H Ross
James Curly

The Lifeboat Inn, known prior to 1877 as the Red, White and Blue. it was owned by Cobbolds until 1869 when it was sold by auction to Charrington Nicoll for £640. The name of the pub was to change to the Lifeboat in 1878 and was demolished during the 1950’s as part of the redevelopment scheme.

Little Eastern

11 George Street, Harwich.

1867-1903 Henry Dawson
1906-1918 Arthur Welham
1922-1927 Frank Calver
1929-1932 George Luckett
1933-1936 B. E. Lewis
1937- George B Keeling
1952- Bertram C Keeling

The Little Eastern had undertaken some improvements in the 1914-18 War period, but finally closed in 1952 and was later demolished.

London Tavern

21 Church Street, Harwich.

1862-1870 William Turner Thistleton
1871-1873 Charles Vincent
1874-1905 John Osborne
1906-1913 Herbert Booth
1914-1922 Hector J. Francis
Hector John Francis

Hector John Francis who was an employee of the Co-operative Society and who managed the London Tavern on Church Street as a public house and drapery from 1914 to 1922.

Hector John Francis and his wife Helena Alberta Louisa Francis (Nee Scott), photo courtesy of Alan Hartley.

New Bell Inn/The Bell

Market Place, Harwich.

1768- George Adam
1791-1823 Mrs Randfield
1823-1833 Robert Roundfield
1839-1855 Grace Beeston
1862-1867 Simon Munson
1867-1882 Edward Paine
1886-1890 John Osborne
1890-1891 William Pearce
1894-1898 George Cullingford
1898-1902 Samuel Harris
1906-1908 Michael Walsh
1908-1910 Benjamin Colthorpe
1910-1912 William T. Beaumont
1912-1914 John Simpson
1917-1922 William Frederick Wade
1925-1937 Joseph Gleed Smith
Alex Vernon Smith
1951- Mabel A Smith
1959- Mr & Mrs Rolfe
1960-1962 Bob & Dilys Clarke
1963-1969 Frank Miller
1967-1977 Mark Stansall
1977- Stuart Johnson
1981-1982 Ron & Doris Flight
1982-1995 Don & Pam Colcomb
1995-2003 Pam Colcomb
2003-2015 Richard & Sue Watts
2015- Kevin Spellacey & Pamela Fox

George Cullingford’s main occupation was a master mariner but he was registered as the landlord of the New Bell between 1894- 1898. In those days a lot of the publicans had other main jobs 2 of his daughters were chambermaids at the Pier Hotel.

Mark Stansall

Packett Inn/The Smack/Eagle Pacquet Boat

42 West Street, Harwich.

1765- John Jackaman
1791-1822 John Clark
1823-1840 Edward Webber
1841-1842 Martha Webber
1841-1844 Thomas Webber
1845-1851 Martha Webber
1851-1861 Sophia Webber
1862-1869 George Haddow
1870-1873 William Law
1874-1885 Charles Burroughs
1886-1889 Sophia Cowell
1890-1897 David Rudler
1898-1916 Ellen Rudler
1917-1921 Edith Murphy
1922-1924 Frank R. Guymer
1925-1928 George Tushingham Hazelwood
1929-1933 William J. Monks
1933-1938 Stephen Kirk
1938-1951 George Kidd
1951- Florence Watson
Emily Sealey

Charles Burroughs is shown as either a stone dredger or mariner in all the census from 1851 to 1871 but in 1881 is shown as Licensed Victualler at the Packet Inn. He married Diane Shilling in Lymington, Hampshire in Q4 of 1867.

Pier Hotel

The Quay, Harwich.

1862-1880 John Brice
1881-1889 William Rule
1890-1891 John Charles Griffiths
1891-1893 Frederick Dunsford
1894-1897 Edward W. Messitter
1898- Arthur E King
1898-1901 Thomas Jenkins
1902-1907 Jane Dale
1908-1910 William Baker Firman
1910-1912 John William Bosworth
1912-1923 Joseph Gleed Smith
1923-1925 Mr Garton
1925-1938 Thomas Clare Collins
1938-1939 C.J. Thistle
1939-1953 Emily Hardiman
1953-1958 Frank & Dorothy Palmer
1958-1972 Geoffrey Vernon Smith
1972-1974 Keith & Audrey brown
1974-1976 Brian & Tina Palmer
1976-1978 Patrick Huggins
1978-1978 Richard Wheeler – Milsom Group
1978-1981 Jim Sarton
1981- Chris Oakley
1991- Stephen Carter

Frederick Dunsford was born in Devon, and between 1841 and 1851 moved from Clyst, Devon first to London, and then to Chingford Essex. his mother (Ann Cockayne) was from Derbyshire. Frederick ran the Pier Hotel in Harwich for a fairly short period from 1891-1893.

Pier Hotel (1973)

Prince of Wales

18 West Street, Harwich.

1767- James Cook
1867-1880 John Andrews
1881-1885 Samuel Carrington
1886-1890 Sophia Carrington
1891-1901 Thomas Crane
1902-1905 Charles Leggett
1906-1908 James Woolnough
1908-1908 Edward William Paine

Trading from 1684 as a beer house, sold by Daniels Brewery in 1908 and converted in to a shop and later as council accommodation. Today its private dwellings.

Railway Tavern

10 George Street, Harwich.

1874-1911 Charles R.Salter
1912-1913 Kate E.Salter
1914-1924 Ernest George Hughes
1925-1951 George R. H. Palmer
1952 James Curley

Charles R.Salter

Mrs Emily Cook was born in the old Railway Tavern in 1886,
The tavern was owned by her father Charles Salter and was the Scene of many gatherings. Fisherman would play quoits and have half pints of ale after a day on the water, her father furnished supplies to the Great Eastern ships; Capt Precious of the ill-fated Berlin would stay at the Railway Tavern when ashore in England.

Royal Oak

22 Market Street, Harwich.

1765- Benjamin Steward
William How
1791-1821 Thomas Cole
1822-1826 Abraham Barter
1827-1831 John Burton
1832-1838 Sarah Burton
1839-1844 Thomas Denney
1845-1850 Joseph Burrell
1851-1854 Mary Burrell
1855-1869 Samuel Cross
1870-1874 Alfred Lambert
1874-1880 John Pratt
1881-1885 John Nichols
1886-1899 William Hepper
1890-1891 Colchester Brewery Company
1891-1893 William Long
1894-1897 John Manning
1898-1928 Walter Gosling
1929-1932 John Smith

Licensee Mr John Smith applied for renewal of the pubs licence in 1932 but was turned down on the grounds that the King’s Head and the Royal Oak were to closely situated and the licence was not renewed. The pub closed in March 1932 and is now a Private Residence.

Royal Hotel

43 Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1870-1877 Charles Miller
1878-1880 Dick Ham
1881-1893 Thomas Raven
1894-1897 Emma Raven
1898-1905 Bernard Asplen
1906-1907 George A. Linstead
1908-1921 Charles Edwin Everitt
1922-1927 George Hearn
George Hearn (left)

Built circa 1866 on the site of the former ‘Harwich Arms’ , the pub was sold in 1927 and became the Royal Flats.

The Ship/ Ye Old Ship Inn

3 Kings Quay Street, Harwich.

1780- Henry King
1791-1822 Jacob Squirrell
1823-1826 Francis Hiblett
1827-1847 James Leabon
1848-1863 Thomas Ennels
1863-1870 Thomas Ennels jnr
1870-1877 Eliza Ennels
1878-1881 Laurence William Pells
1882-1885 Charles Robert Salter
1886-1889 William Hodge
1890-1891 James Thomas Burgess
1891-1894 Walter Young
1894-1897 Henry Davenport
1898-1905 George Robert Lilley
1906-1911 Joseph Weavers
1912-1916 Henry William Easter
1917-1925 Tom Button
1925- Osborne Philo
1951 Frank Orvis
Lawrence Pells.

The Ship, so it appears, was not its original name. Charrington Nicoll leased it in 1910,but Cobbold took over the lease and finally closed it around 1927. it was later used as a tearoom, bookshop, and a sweet shop. It was restored in the 1970s and became a gift shop and then a restaurant as it remains today.

Spread Eagle/ The Star

74 West Street, Harwich.

1765- John Holderness
1791-1822 John Death
1823-1926 James Bull
1827-1831 Charles Joyce
1832-1840 Mary Joyce
1841-1844 Harriet Robinson
1845-1847 Mary Joyce
1848-1861 William Rumsey
1862-1882 Louisa Rumsey
1882-1885 Joseph Henry Kersey
1886-1893 Lewis Tovell
1894-1905 Louis Tovell
1906-1909 Jane Tovell
1910-1916 James Ernest Eaton
1917-1924 Charles Edward Hills
1925-1927 Arthur B. Heron
1927-1936 John Robert Kidney
1937- George John Baker
1940-1941 James Charles Callaghan Bates
1941-1948 James Henderson
1950-1960 Augustus & Vi Harris
1961-1971 Minnie & Bert Turner

Between 1684 and 1860 it was known as the Star. The Spread Eagle was regarded as the town’s oldest pub. In 1914 its proprietor Mr Charles Hills applied for permission to re-build the premises as a modern ‘Mock Tudor’ establishment. the Council approved the plan but it was never carried out.

Mr Augustus Harris was born in the Isle of Wight. His father who was the first bathing pool attendant when Dovercourt bathing pool opened. Was a sailor and the family travelled around. They came to Harwich in 1914 when Mr Harris worked for the Royal Army ordnance depot until 1919.

He then worked for Wells and Son, in Station Road, Dovercourt, when he married his wife Violet, they moved to Pembroke Villas, next to the garage in Station Road.

Vi Harris

Stingray/ Wheatsheaf

56 Church Street, Harwich.

1937- Harry G. Edwards
1937-1970 Jim Taylor
1970- Pat Hempstead
1974- Pamela Ingram
1980’s George & Sheila Dixon
-2002 Andy & Mo
2002- Jamie Shrive **Present**

George Dixon and his wife Sheila (Stingray). George had a somewhat dubious past when he came here from London, he was a great boss to work for. He had a heart of gold. Every Christmas he would arrange a party for the kids of Harwich and dress up as Santa. All the kids got great presents. He also helped out poor families (something he never advertised, just done it quietly.

Jim Taylor

Swan/New Swan/The Ship/The Crown

14 Kings Head Street, Harwich.

1769- James Johnson
1791-1822 John Leabon
1823-1826 James Leabon
1827-1831 William Dixon
1832-1838 Phillip Hucks
1839-1847 William Haxell
1848-1869 James Pinner
1870-1877 William Jacklin
1878-1893 Edward Long
1894-1897 Elizabeth Long
1898-1905 David Prime
1905-1908 George Cooper

After leaving the Swan, William Jacklin went on to run the Duke’s Head in Church Street from 1878 through to sometime after 1882.

Three Cups

64 Church Street, Harwich.

1592 – Richard Goodwyn
15?? – Thomas Twitt
15?? – 1601 Michael Twitt
1652-1654? Walter Standly
1654-1657 Mathew Dodsly (Bodsly?)
1672-1694 Samuel Newton
1711- Mr. & Mrs Edy: ‘Mrs Adye (or Adey)
1715- William Kempster
1751-1763 Thomas Hallstead
1773- Benjamin Didier
1773-1822 Abraham Hinde
1823-1831 William Bull
1832-1869 Ann Bull
1870-1875 Joseph Leech Bull
1875-1886 John Bull
1886-1894 John Tye
1894-1897 Charles Chambers
1898-1902 John Broadbent
1905-1907 Carnie & Cartmale
1907-1912 Thomas West Carnie
1914-1921 Bertie Edward Bussey
1922-1928 Alice Maud Dorton

1929-1937 William G. Kitson

1937-1938 Edmond Charles Jules Guignard
1938-1981 Albert Keeble
1981-1990 Ricky & Kim Good
1990-1992 Lance & Trevor ?
1992-1994 Karen ?
1994-1995 George Hodgson

Albert Keeble

Swiss born Mr Edmond Charles Jules Guignard learned his profession in the school of J.Lyons and co. he came up from London with savings and invested them in The Three Cups.

Herbert Dorton married Alice Maude Mary Bird in 1899 who, as Alice Maude Dorton later ran the Three Cups Hotel in Harwich from 1922 until 1928.

https://thethreecups.com/residents

Three Cups Tap

Kings Quay St, Harwich

1862- William Haxell

White Hart Inn

3 George Street, Harwich.

1780- Roger Hines
1791-1821 George White
1822-1838 William Blizard
1839-1844 Isaac Nicholls
1845-1854 Richard Coppinger
1855-1861 J. Smith
1862-1866 Susan Catherine Harrison
1867-1870 Henry Cole
1870-1880 George King
1880-1885 Isaac Charles Pratt
1886-1901 George Mercer
1902-1905 Richard Miller
1906-1913 Joseph George Bragg Sprake
1914-1928 Alfred Goodall
1929-1936 John H. Birch
1937- Herbert Watkinson
1943- F. Newman
Albert Marshall
Mrs Shrive
William Blizard

**Picture from a Painting donated by Mrs Betty Newnham**

Richard Miller, Richard’s father was an agricultural labourer on a farm in Dovercourt but Richard went into the navy, probably lying about his age when he joined. At some point he went to Ireland where he met his wife and started a family, and somewhere along the line he transferred to the coastguards. He finished his time as a coastguard in Dorset and became a hotel keeper in Bridport. He subsequently moved back to Harwich and ran the White Hart.

He died in 1914 when he was living in Palmers Green.

DOVERCOURT

Alexandra Hotel

Kingsway, Dovercourt.

1903- Frank Eden
1906-1907 Albert Henry Thiem
1908-1909 Unnamed
1910-1916 Carl Rosinsky
1917-1932 E.J. Squires
1933- S.E. & V.E. Dore
1938- Arthur Moor
1941- Bernie Bronley
1944- Geoffrey Vernon Smith

Carl & Minna Kate Rosinsky

Officially opened on the 25th May 1903 with lunch for 120 guests entertained by a five piece Orchestra,the hotel was described as a ‘fine and handsome hotel’ and a ‘handsome and palatial building’.Designed in the Queen Anne style by Sherrin and situated in 3/4 acre of land overlooking the bay, the driving force behind the hotel was Thomas Moran. The opening luncheon for 120 guests was entertained by the five ladies of the Nell Gwynn orchestra. The Hotel became the hub of civic and social activities during the First World War the “Alex” was a popular meeting place for navy officers often with their wives and families.

Bird in Hand

567 Main Road, Dovercourt.

1871-1892 Robert Kettle
1894- Robert Brown
1929-1933 Arthur Bloomfield
1933-1938 Mrs E. M. Bloomfield
1943- Sidney Sayers
1948-1959 Wally & Dolly Raven
1963- Bob & Joyce Caley
1965-1969 Tom & Kitty Pepper
1969- Derek & Sylvia Gay
Frank Miller
1970’s Martyn Wood
1978- Pat & Pamela Huggins
1983-1985 Susan & Ian Bradford
1985-1992 Tony Tait
1992-1994 John Tait
1994- Keith & Sue Kapcia
-1997 Lee Mallett

Tom & Kitty Pepper with Betty Holbrook

Tom and Kitty Pepper, Tom was a keen but not very good stock car driver for a while, when they left to go to their daughters in San Francisco USA, they were followed at the Bird by Derek and Sylvia Gay.

Cliff Hotel

22 Marine Parade, Dovercourt.

1862-1867 Henry Tyler
1867-1870 Thomas Daniell
1870-1874 James Warren
1874-1878 Robert Guy
1878-1881 William Johnston
1881-1889 Frederick Loveridge
1890-1897 Henry Warren
1898-1901 George Thomas Wooldridge
1902-1909 Handel Henrico Packer
1910-1916 Emily Mary Jane Packer
1917-1921 Mabel Garner-Parrot
1922-1929 Charles Beresford
1929- Trust Houses Ltd
1931- Douglas Hutchins
1961-1968 F.C.M. Meadows
1981- John Wade

Devonshire Arms

1 Ramsey Road, Upper Dovercourt.

1938- Amelia Bye
William Ingram
William Marsh
1950-1966 Harry and Elsie Smith
1966-1976 Dennis Noseley
1976-1978 Paul Stevens
Yvonne Frost
1981-1984 Michael & Gillian Gale
1984-1990 Terry & Ali Brown
1990-1991 Terry Allan
1991-1991 Bill & Eileen Edser
1992- Brian & June ?

Mr & Mrs Noseley

The Devonshire Arms opened in April 1938 as the most modern hotel in the area, the pub was renamed the Devon in the new century.

In 2012 part of the premises was converted into a convenience store.

Kings Arms

178 High Street, Dovercourt.

1765- Jeremiah Garrard
1828-1849 William Leopard
1845-1847 Elizabeth Leopard
1848-1854 William Osborn
1855-1861 W. Matthews
1862-1890 William S. Appleby
1891-1892 William L. Appleby
1892-1893 Maria Appleby
1894-1919 Eliza Appleby
1919-1938 Dick Haylett Appleby
1940-1944 Harold Walter Peck
1952- G.Meddick
1964-1967 Aubrey Taylor
1977-1983 Jim & Jean Hughes
1984-1987 Alistair & Julie Campbell
1987-1990 Jack & Joan Hoy
1990-1992 Terry & Ali Brown
1992- Terry & Carol Newman
2002- Lee & Melissa Mallet
2008-2013 Rob & Lesley Wood
2013-2014 Hayley Robson & Michaela Fulleylove
2014-2015 Steve Picton
2015-2019 Jo Sims & Jo Stokes
2019- **CLOSED**
Aubrey Taylor

The King’s Arms was trading as a coaching inn from 1753, when it was owned by Cobbold, and was a copyhold public house when sold in 1837. It was converted into a Hotel in 1864, and is still trading today.

Dick Haylett Appleby

Dick Haylett Appleby was born at the King’s Arms Hotel, Dovercourt in 1872, Mr Appleby was first elected to Harwich council in November 1900, and severed for three years. Again, in April, 1909, he was successful at a by-election, and served until November, 1911, when he was again returned, and served until 1914, when he gave up council work.

In his younger days Mr. Appleby was prominently associated with the Harwich and Parkeston Football Club, for which he was goalkeeper, and in that position, he played in the final of the Essex Senior Cup in 1895, when Harwich were defeated by the odd goal of three against Upton Park. He retained his interest in the “Shrimpers” long after his playing days had ceased.

The King’s Arms Hotel was in the occupation of his parents for many years, and in those early days, before Dovercourt had assumed its present size or importance, it was noted in the district for “Appleby’s stout”.

Phoenix Hotel

Lower Marine Parade, Dovercourt.

1867-1882 Raymond Howard
1890-1897 Warren Ellis
1898-1901 William Bowler Greenwood
1902-1909 William Wright
1910-1921 Fred William Everett
1922-1938 Sarah Everett
1938-1971 Arthur Richards
1970’s Dick & Val Preston.
1974- Geoff Hare
-1983 Joseph & Jenny Sharp
1983-1984 John & Ruth Hart
1984-1984 Martin & Marisa Hookham
1984-2003 Terry & Carol Lindsell
Arthur Richards

Built in 1869 replacing the premises of the same name. The Phoenix was completely destroyed by fire shortly after midnight on Thursday morning 28^th May 1914.

In 1985 the hotel was modernised and converted into a nightclub ‘Reflections’. Sadly this closed in 2003 and the Hotel has been demolished for housing.

Queen’s Hotel /Queen’s Head

119 High Street, Dovercourt.

1791-1822 John Hatch
1823-1829 John Mullet
-1853 George Cook
1862-1877 Robert Dickson
1878-1885 Charles Edwards
1886-1897 Charles Phipps
1898-1901 George Phipps
1902-1905 George Henry Inward
1906-1911 Herbert Nicholson Dorton
1912-1921 William Van Russell
1922-1924 Charles Cully
1925-1928 Alfred A. Fisher
1929-1938 Daniel Baker
1944- Jack Jarvis
1946-1956 Archie Wilson
1967 Les Payne
G. Bird
1988-1989 Pat & Peter Green
1989- Roy & Steph Skinner
Lee & Melissa Mallett
2006- Julie Ridgeon
Mr & Mrs Payne

Mary Brown (herself a licensed victualler with pubs in Bethnal Green and later, Mile End) was married to John Thomas Dorton. they had eight children, the youngest of whom was William Dorton (1849-1924).William had ten children, his second child being Herbert Nicholas Dorton (1872-1912), the licensed victualler who managed The Queen’s Head in Dovercourt from 1906-1911.

Royal Hotel

387 Main Road, Dovercourt.

1929-1932 Minna Kate Rosinsky
1933-1937 Frank M. Nunn
1937- Ernest Cecil Brown
Reg & Molly Harris
1939-1953 Bertie Bloom
1953-1965 William Chambers
1965-1983 James Chambers
1983-1984 Jim & Jean Hughes
1984-1985 Fay & Colin Andrews
1985- Peter & Pat Read
1988-1991 Pat & Barry Binks
1991- Les & Dawn Adams
Sylvia Bartier
1999-2006 Jane & Peter Welch
Andy Nudd
Greg Guiezeler
Bill Chambers & Family

Built as a replacement for the Royal Hotel in Harwich, it became a favorite place to sit and enjoy a quick drink and a smoke with favored friends and is still trading today.

Royal Oak

226 Main Road, Dovercourt.

1828-1838 Edmund Osborn
1839-1844 Mary Osborn
1845-1847 William Osborn
1848-1848 James Pilcher
1849-1854 William Fidget
1855-1861 James Hart
1862-1866 Ann Hart
1867-1873 William Gooding
1874-1905 George Cullingham
1906-1932 William Lawrence
1933-1937 Henry S. Pearce
1937-1959 George Howard Tovell
1959-1975 Dal Hodgson
1988-1992 Jeff Bird
1992-2001 Gavin & Karen Rose
2006-2008 Mick & Marlene Hales
2008-2012 Matthew Campbell
2012- Alan & Maxine Lovett **Present**
Dal Hodgson

Trading from 1873 as an alehouse owned by Alstons the brewers of Manningtree and later became a Daniels, Truman’s house. The Royal Oak is still trading today and is well known locally for its good food.

Trafalgar Inn

616 Main Road,Upper Dovercourt.

1832-1838? Turpin
1839-1844 Robert Brown
1845-1861 David Keable
1862-1866 John Ames
1867-1874 George Rowland
1874-1878 Timothy Pattison
1878-1889 Joseph Charles Baldry
1890-1913 William Alfred Gross
1914-1921 William Nunn
1922-1928 Arthur Welham
1929-1933 Ethel Welham
1933-1937 Victor Harvey Spencer
1937-1938 Arthur Raymond Leigh-Lye
1938 -1941 Mrs Cockerel
1941- Benjamin Storer
1968 Harry Noaks
Dick Tunstall
1976-1978 Malcolm & Pat Stevens
1980’s Ron & Pam Eldridge
1983-2001 Pat Cockrill
2005- Kevin Vinter
Malcolm & Pat Stevens

A fourteenth century coaching inn, the original building is believed to have been destroyed by fire at the time of the battle of Trafalgar. It is thought that the pub was converted from a row of cottages that once stood there. The ‘Traf’ was purchased in 2001 by Ridley’s the brewers, and remains the popular pub it has been over many years.

Victoria Hotel

Station Road, Dovercourt.

1848- Samuel Rackman
1862-1867 Edward Orphin
1867-1870 Henry Whyatt
1870-1885 John Thomas Wilding
1886-1889 William Stevens Darvell
1890-1894 Thomas Williams
1894-1899 William James Chittenden
1902-1916 Frederick Whitehead
1917-1928 Henry John Gooch
1929-1932 Percy Henry Gooch
1933-1937 Charles Edward Richards
1937-1938 Edgar John Beasley
1938-1944 M.W.Ramsey
1944- Ethel Ramsey
1947-1953 William Ingram
Arthur Pitt
H.J.Gooch
1956- Archie Wilson
1967- Jeffrey Bird
1977- P.Searle
1982-1993 John & Ruth Hart
1993- 1994 Robert Borowski
1994- Alan & Maggie Pearle

Ruth & John Hart

Trading from 1861, the hotel caught Fire on the 25th June 2005 no one was inside the pub which was locked up for the night which lately had been open only rarely. The Hotel has since been demolished.

White Horse

487 Main Road, Dovercourt.

1765- Nicholas Rickman
1823-1832 John Davison
1832-1838 William Vyler
1839-1847 William Rumsey
1848-1851 Samuel Sparrow
1851-1861 Sarah and John Sparrow
1862-1870 Samuel Freeman
1870-1873 Henry Pettingale
1874-1877 Thomas Cresswell
1878-1885 Robert Angier
1886-1890 John H. Langstone
1890-1891 Charles Bedford
1891-1894 Ernest Gan
1894- 1901 Paul G. Todd
1902-1905 John Hayter
1906-1907 Charles Samuel Fletcher
1908-1911 George Sidney Fletcher
1912- 1921 Douglas Dorton
1922-1928 Charles Lewis Hills
1929-1933 John H. O’Toole
1933-1943 William J. Hakins
1943- Henry Taylor
1968 Cyril & Grace Gray
1970’s John Cairns
1984-1992 Dennis & June Morgan
1992-1993 Bill & Heather Fisher
1993-1994 Alan & Maggie Pearle
1994-1995 Martin & Tracey
1995- Andy & Una ?
1997- Alan & Jenny East
Jim & Lil Hakins (White Horse)

The White Horse was previously known as the George. It was built on land owned by the Guild of St George, renamed the Great White Horse and was given the name the White Horse in the 1870’s. The White Horse has since been demolished and is now residential housing.

Parkeston

Garland Hotel/Captain Fryatt

65 Garland Road, Parkeston.

1890-1893 William Halifax
1894-1904 James Thomas Burgess
1906-1924 John Wilton Braund
1925-1928 John H. O’Toole
1929-1933 James Edward Shepherd
1933-1941 William Henry Timson
1941- Alfred Burton
1944- Albert Edward Heard
1954-1962 Bill Layton
1967- Eric & Irene Heard
1980-1992 Harry & Margaret Shean
1992-1993 Andy & Karen Smith
1993-1993 Clive Chippington
1993- Tony & Mavis Tait
2007- Mark & Linda Henson
2009-2010 ** Closed*
2010-2013 Becky Gawn
Harry Shean, Pat Hempstead, George Bernard.

Margaret and Harry Shean pulled their last pints at the Captain Fryatt after nearly 13 years in the village. ” We will miss our customers and the friendliness around here”. The couple were presented with a pair of crystal vases and a crystal table lamp, they also received a crystal clock from the darts team.

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