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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the town council were paying for it and the upkeep costs seemed high, eventually the idea was dropped.
mick wes quite upset at the furore as he never asked for it in the first place.
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Cheers for that
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'had been to a masquerade in the Eagle gardens' :
Betsy NASH, singlewoman, attired in male apparel, charged with creating a disturbance at the Royal Mortar. No one appearing against the defendant it was stated she had been to a Masquerade in the Eagle Gardens and appeared before the bench in her dress as "a nice young man"; was dismissed with a caution not to again appear in such unsuitable attire!
(Dover Telegraph Sat.1.1.1848 p.8 col.1)
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Lovely snippet, strange co-incidence when you take into account that there is now a business of the same name now operating just up the road from the Eagle pub, I don't mean 'a nice young man'
Also I'm sure I heard that there was a gibbet near the inn years gone by.
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Hope you dont mind me posting this link , its a fascinating site
http://www.dover-kent.com/1Pubs-list.htmlSorry colin IVe just realised your link is a page on the site I linked to !
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Barry, the gibbet was across the road at Bridge Street.
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So it was an Hotel in the first instance. It always looked like it would have made a good Hotel.
With the Taste of India next door, we always thought it would help both businesses. We used to call in there for a drink before our Indian - until we dicovered Blakes.
In the later years, the people in there put us off going in.
Roger
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Dover's Place of Execution:
"The buildings on the upper part of the west side of High Street are comparatively modern. In the 18th and the early part of the 19th centuries, on the rising ground at the upper corner, facing Bridge Street, was the place of execution of the condemned felons of Dover and its Liberties. Those executions were of frequent occurrences and were very sad and revolting scenes. The central object was a poor, unfortunate person conveyed in a cart, with a coffin beside him ready to receive his body, and the Chaplain of the Corporation imparted last words of counsel and comfort to his soul. The cart so laden was surrounded and followed by an excited mob, on whom the object-lesson was supposed to have a moral effect, although often it was quite the contrary. The hanging took place on the highground on the left entrance to Tower Hamlets Road, and the windows of the Black Horse Tavern, at the opposite corner of Tower Hamlets Road, offered a point of vantage to sightseers who did not care to jostle with the crowd.
Amongst the executions which took place there in the early part of the 19th century, before the Municipal Reform put an end to them, were Turmain on the 8th March 1813; two men for forgery on the Margate Bank, 27th November 1817; Alexander Spence, for shooting an officer of the Coastguard, Friday 9 August 1822, and a young man for robbery at Margate in 1823 was the last person executed there."
(Dover - by J. Bavington Jones, publ. by the Dover Express, 1907)
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"The skeleton discovered at X-road at top of High Street is supposed to be that of SPENCE, a soldier, who was executed at the Toll Bar, Bridge Street, for shooting Lieut. GRAHAM at the Western Heights. He was the last man to be executed there. " (Dover Express 14.4.1888 p.4 col.6, and see Dover Express 28.4.1882 p.5 col.4),
also see Dover Express 31.4.1882 p.5 col.2 "could NOT be Spence")
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Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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I recall a chap calling me saying he booked acts for The Eagle and another place in Ashford, nothing came of it.
Hare and Hounds gone too, let's keep the bandstand going!
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
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Yes, Public Hangings were a source of much income for The Black Horse I read. I thought I might have seen more about the Dover clans that frequent the place yet, but only the one mention of a Williams to connect the evil-doings of the past with events of the present...
http://www.dover-kent.com/Eagle-Hotel.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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P.S.
And what is all this about a four-faced clock?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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fascinating link tom, more on the issue of the clock.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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now, anyone for personal flogging at the eagle again lol
who would you put in the stocks???
lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the former landlord would be a popular choice judging by comments on here.
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