Canterbury pub index
At 9 Westgate Street without in 1867
at 9 Westgate without in 1862; Bedwell & Co’s Canterbury & District Directory 1888 describes the siting of the Victoria Hotel in Northgate Street as “71 Burren, Thos., Victoria Hotel, Here is St Radigund’s Street”, and this allows us to identify the current building on the corner of the two streets, though almost certainly the current shop to the right of the frontage was once part of the Victoria itself to judge by the roof-lines and the siting of the front entrance and bar windows ***
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Canterbury, Kent .
Residents at this address
1862/T Smith/../../../Post Office Directory
1867/Mrs E Ward/../../../Post Office Directory
Thomas Burren (1835 - 1916), is the nephew of James Burren senior, at the
Five Bells, Rochester and then
the
Blakeneys Head, St Bartholomew. Thomas Burren was initially at the
Providence Inn, 162 Northgate
Street, Canterbury ***
Thomas ran a thriving fly proprietor and job/post master business from the
Victoria, with collections from several other inns in Canterbury and
throughout Kent, so he appears in numerous Kent Directories (too many to
list here) and censuses based at the Victoria from 1878 to 1891, and he then
moved to his fly proprietor mews property at 87 Broad Street (a few doors
away from the Victoria) and continued to be listed as a job master at this
address in directories as late as 1913 ***
1871/Thomas Burren/Licensed Victualler/35/Hounslow/Census ***
1871/Hannah Burren/Wife/35/Minster/Census
1871/Hannah Jarrett/Niece/14/Sheerness/Census
1871/Charlotte Penn/Barmaid/20/Canterbury/Census
1871/Edward Ladd/Groom/18/Canterbury/Census
1871/Susan Allen/Housemaid/20/Canterbury/Census
1874/Thomas Burren/../../../Post Office Directory
Thomas was a supporter of the local Conservative Party and he was among
those named and shamed by an 1881 Royal Commission of Inquiry for bribing
voters in the general election of 1880, which was therefore declared void
for the Canterbury seat – this rebuke did not deter him from politics and he
subsequently became a City Councillor for the Northgate Ward for at least
three terms (Bedwell & Co’s Canterbury & District Directory 1888 lists him
as a Councillor, Kelly’s 1903 names him as a Councillor due for retirement
in November 1903, and Kelly’s 1913 names him as a Councillor due for
retirement in November 1914) ***
1881/Thomas Burren/Hotel Proprietor, Job Master & Horse
Slaughterer/45/Hounslow/Census ***
1881/Hannah Burren/Wife/45/Isle of Sheppey/Census
1881/Louisa Moore/Sister/50/Tonbridge/Census
1881/Flora Burren/Niece/11/Rochester/Census
1881/Fanny Tomalin/Domestic Servant/19/Canterbury/Census
1882/Thos Burren/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Thomas Burren/Job & Post Master, & Licensed
Victualler/55/Hounslow/Census ***
1891/Hannah Burren/WIfe/55/Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent/Census
1891/Robert G Fox/Groom/50/Wandsworth/Census
1891/Florence Allen/General Domestic Servant/19/Ashford/Census
1903/Bramhall C Howard/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/Henry Cross/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/George Cross/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Henry Geo Cross/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Henry Geo Cross/../../../Post Office Directory
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