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Luddenham and Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent
Shipwright’s Arms, Hollow Shore, Faversham - in May 2012
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1841/John Tritton/Publican/40/Kent/Census
1841/Elizabeth Tritton/../35/Kent/Census
1841/John Tritton/Black Maker/15/Kent/Census
1841/Frances Tritton/../13/Kent/Census
1841/David Tritton/../10/Kent/Census
1841/William Tritton/../8/Kent/Census
1841/Fredrick Tritton/../5/Kent/Census
1841/Margaret Tritton/../3/Kent/Census
1851/Thomas Madams/Shipwright/47/Faversham, Kent/Census
1851/Elizabeth Madams/Wife/40/Gillingham, Kent/Census
1851/Charles Madams/Son, Shipwright/22/Seasalter, Kent/Census
1851/Opra Madams/Daughter/20/Seasalter, Kent/Census
1851/Thomas Madams/Son, Apprentice/18/Seasalter, Kent/Census
1851/Esther Madams/Daughter/9/Seasalter, Kent/Census
1851/Ann Madams/Daughter/8/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1851/William Madams/Son/3/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1851/Harriott Madams/Daughter/1/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1851/Henry Madams/Nephew/9/Sheerness, Kent/Census
1851/Richard Johncock/Servant/14/Oare, Kent/Census
1858/Thomas Madams/../../../Melvilles Directory
1861/Thomas Madams/Publican/54/Faversham, Kent/Census
1861/Elizabeth Madams/Wife/49/Rochester, Kent/Census
1861/Esther Madams/Daughter/18/Whitstable, Kent/Census
1861/Ann Madams/Daughter/17/Whitstable, Kent/Census
1861/William Madams/Son/13/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1861/Harriett Madams/Daughter/11/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1861/Emma Madams/Daughter/9/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1861/Elizabeth A Madams/Daughter/5/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1861/George Measdoy/Lodger, Shipwright/22//Census
1871/Thomas Madams/Ship Carpenter/65/Faversham, Kent/Census
1871/Elizabeth Madams/Wife/59/Rochester, Kent/Census
Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal 05 June 1875
Frederick Austin, landlord of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore, in the parish of Luddenham, was summoned for having his house open for the sale of beer during prohibited hours on Sunday, May 9th. Case dismissed.
Kentish Gazette 14 May 1878
Herbert Clark, landlord of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore, in the parish of Luddenham, was summoned for allowing a ferocious dog to be at large.
It appears that on the previous Saturday a man named Hall was attacked by this dog which bit him through the nose. It seems the dog had also attacked other persons, but defendant nevertheless refused to destroy it.
Magistrates made an order that the dog shold be destroyed forthwith, under pain of penalty of 20 shillings for every day the order is not carried out, and costs of 13 shillings.
1881/Herbert Clark/Mariner And Licensed Victualler/45/Faversham, Kent/Census
1881/Thomasine Clark/Wife/42/Faversham, Kent/Census
1882/Herbert Clark/../../../Post Office Directory
Faversham News 04 May 1889
The license of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore was transferred from Herbert Clarke to Godfrey Dane.
1891/George Dane/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Charles Dane/Licensed Victualler & Fisherman/29/Faversham, Kent/Census
1891/Mary Dane/Wife/28/Faversham, Kent/Census
1891/Charles Dane/Son/3/Faversham, Kent/Census
1891/Joseph Dane/Son/1/Faversham, Kent/Census
1891/Annie Bowles/Servant/15/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/George Gregory/Licensed Victualler, Shipwrights Arms/44/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/Elizabeth Gregory/Wife/34/Canterbury, Kent/Census
1901/Florence M Gregory/Daughter/11/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/Elizabeth Gregory/Daughter/9/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/Winifred M Gregory/Daughter/8/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/James Hunt/Adopted/5/Faversham, Kent/Census
1901/Eliza Gregory/Visitor/22/Margate, Kent/Census
1901/Kate Stubbles/Servant/16/Herne Bay, Kent/Census
1901/Frank Gregory/Visitor/2/Faversham, Kent/Census
1911/George Adsley/Licensed Victualler/56/Oare, Kent/Census
1911/Sophia Adsley/Wife/53/Luddenham, Kent/Census
1911/Roy Adsley/Son, Blacksmith's striker/17/Luddenham, Kent/Census
[By 1939, George Adsley is incapacitated, and living at the George Inn, Newnham; when the victualler is Olive F Foreman.]
Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal 04 November 1911
The license of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore, Luddenham was transferred from George Adsley to Isaac Dane
1913/Isaac Dane/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/Isaac Dane/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Geo Jackson/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Walter Evans/../../../Post Office Directory
In 1939 at the Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore, Near Faversham are :
Walter G Evans, Operator For Faversham Water, born 22 May 1898
Edith L Evans, Domestic Duties, born 10 Nov 1898
Walter G Evans, Mate Of S B Esther Co, born 20 Jan 1919
Minnie H James(Evans), Cashier, born 01 Mar 1922
Louisa M Woods, Domestic Duties, born 02 Dec 1874
Faversham News 20 October 1939
The license of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore was transferred from Walter George Evans, to his wife, Edith Evans.
Faversham News 11 July 1941
The death has occurred at "The Shipwright Arms," Hollow Shore (of which her son is licensee). of Mrs Emma Woods, of 107 Upper Brents.
Mrs Woods, who was 71 years of age, went to live with her son at the beginning of June. Her death occurred suddenly on Thursday of last week.
Faversham News 01 February 1946
The death of Mr George Thomas Jackson, of School House, Solomons Lane, Faversham, collapsed on Saturday morning, January 19th. He passed away at 6.30 the following morning.
Mr Jackson was born at Oare. During the war of 1914-1918 he served abroad in the Royal Artillery and was slighty wounded. After the war he worked for twenty years in the brickfield at Oare. Then for four years he was licensee of the Shipwright Arm at Hollow Shore.
Faversham News 05 December 1947
The license of the Shipwright Arms, Hollow Shore was transferred from Edith Evans to Edward John Mumford Cooke.
Faversham News 09 July 1948
Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore
Commander and Mrs Archer will be pleased to welcome old and new friends at the re-opening of the above.
Free and Fully licensed. Popular prices. Snacks, Accomodation etc.
East Kent Gazette 08 June 1951
The Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore, Faversham, Kent
Freehold and Fully licensed Inn.
Will be sold as a going concern (unless previous sold privately)..
Faversham News 30 July 1954
Harry arrives at Hollow Shore.
The day after he made his twenty fourth rescue effort in the Swale estuary, on Monday, Major J Jobey of the Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore was presented with a son and heir.
The new baby is a brother for Cherry Susan aged 7, and Jacqueline Angela, aged 9. His name is Harry Edward Peter.
Mother and son are doing well.
1961/Jack Reginald Jobey / Innkeeper /../../London Gazette, 3 November 1961 **
Faversham News 13 January 1961
Dinghy mystery cleared.
Mr Jack Sparrow, of St Johns road, Faversham reported to the police on Saturday that he had found an 11 foot dinghy with out-board motor fitted at Uplees. In the dinghy was a single barrel shotgun and a broken oar.
Police later found that the dinghy belonged to Barry Tester, son of the licensee of the Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore.
Tonbridge Free Press 22 December 1961
Ex-Innkeeper blames 'confidence trickster' for his failure.
A former Faversham licensee and boat builder told Canterbury Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday that his businesses were ruined by the 1953 flood disaster, when his inn was swamped by 14 feet of water, and by a "pseudo-purchaser" who disappeared.
Jack Reginald Jobey, 44, of Bridge House, The Brents, Faversham, told the court that the prospective purchaser was "nothing more or less than a confidence trickster".
Jobeys's liabilities expected to rank for dividend were said to be over £4,000.
He said that in 1952 he bought the unoccupied and derelict Shipwright Arms Hollow Shore for £1,400 and later paid £1,100 for a piece of land near the inn on which a boatbuilding business was carried on.
It took him 18 months to put the inn in order, and it was re-opened. He was assisted by a bank loan, but shortly afterwards both the inn and the boatbuilding business were hit by the flood.
The inn was flooded to a depth of 14 feet to the first floor and was seriously damaged.
A balance sheet at March 1958 showed a deficiency of £5,960, partly due to expense on rebuilding wharves and jetties for a prospective purchaser who disappeared.
In December 1959, he sold part of the wharf to a boatbuilding business for £1,700, and the Shipwright Arms, together with the remaining part of the boatbuilding business, for £10,000, which left him with a deficiency of £2,500.
He went on to live with a relative at Bridge House and earned mony by repairing boats until November 1960, when he became managing director of a limited company making chicken grit from sea shells.
Jobey, married with four children, said he was now working as a labourer.
The examination was closed.
Faversham News 08 November 1968
A Faversham Company Director was committed for trial at Kent Assizes on a charge of causing death by dangerou driving.
He is Laurence Tester, a former licensee of the Shipwright Arms, of Hollow Shore House, Hollow Shore.
Faversham News 17 July 1987
A Faversham woman's 12 year old dream came true when she took over the licence of one of the area's most popular and individual inns.
Marilyn Candler's long term project had been to save enough cash to take over a pub when her chidren left school.
But a whole series of quirks of chance meant that Marilyn happened to be in just the right place at the right time a few years early.
When an experienced person was needed to take on the licence of the Shipwright Arms, at Hollow Shore, Marilyn stepped forward.
Marilyn, who lived in the town until she was five, moved back to Faversham from Manchester with her two children - Davina, now 16 and Darren, 15, six years ago.
And since then she has worked full time behind the bars of several Faversham pubs - a job sh has always loved. Just over two years ago she began working for Mac Maclean at the Shipwright's and when the next licensee, Mr Michale Mills, was taken ill she was asked to use her experience to manage the house until he was fit.
"When it became clear that he would not be well enough to return, even though he was making a good recovery, the idea of me taking over the licence began to emerge," explained Marilyn. "I couldn't believe that the dream was coming true so soon".
Her partner in the project, fisherman Nick Rye, also found himself involved more by accident than design. He and Marilyn met while she was serving behind the bar and he was taking breaks from his work restoring a boat by the waterside. Their relationship blossomed and now they find themselves on the same side of the bar.
Marilyn and Nick have no plans to make dramatic changes to the Shipwright's. "The pub works very well as it is," said Marilyn. "Customers come from miles around to find a pub so close to the sea."
"And then we have our regulars from the Faversham area as well as boating people right on our doorstep." The Shipwright's is renowned for powerful brews and its wide range of lunch time dishes. Marilyn confesses that she is not the world's greatest cook - in fact, on the quiet she admits that the kitchen staff only let her loose on the simplest meals. "But we have a good team who work flat out to keep up wih demand," she said.
Nick and Marilyn moved in to manage the Shipwright's in January - and were snowed up for weeks.
We rely on our own generator and we pump our own water, so those winter weeks were quite an experience.
"If we can cope with that we can cope with anything," they said. "It's hard work but we've been lapping it up."
The Shipwright's has been selling ale for centuries and it's easy to imagine the sea boots of ancient mariners thumping across the wooden floors, under the low dark beams.
Rags, the resident Jack Russell, has either a vivid imagination or some sort of link with "the other side" for she has been displaying some rather strange behaviour since moving to the Shipwright's.
"I am very sceptical about these things - a real unbeliever," said Nick.
"But there are times when I have second thoughts - the dog definitely behaves as though there's been a visitor."
And Marilyn describes strange phenomena such as ice tongs dematerialising, then reappearing in the middle of the kitchen floor.
A friend of Marilyn's, who has been researching the history of the Shipwright's Arms, has revealed that the first licensee in 1738 was a Widow Crowe.
So far no more women tenants have surfaced in his findings.
It has taken more than 200 years for another landlady to get her hands on the the licence and Marilyn is going to make quite sure she is not easily forgotten.
Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal 03 March 1993
The Shipwright Arms, at Hollow Shore (or Holly Shore, as some would have it) is due to re-open this weekend. The creekside pub is one of the mos distinctive hostelries in this part of the country. Just getting there is an adventure.
The Shipwrights closed 17 months ago and some of us wondered if it would ever open again.
Partners Simon Claxton and Roger Jelly are confident that the pub can be built up to its forer glory and gradually developed into a thriving real ale venue with a restaurant.