~ KING STREET ~
CANTERBURY
Borough of Staplegate, Ward of Westgate
July 18th 1816 Burial of Mary TERRY of King Street age 58, Thomas Bennett, Rector (St. Alphage)
Orange Street to Borough (left from Orange Street)
No. 1
listed building
1838 James BLIGH, Plasterer, 1 King Street
Marriage, April 1862, at St. George's Hanover Sq., Edwin Henry Alger, esq., of Windsor, to Frances, youngest dau. of James Bligh, esq., of Canterbury. GM1862*
*1 King Street, Canterbury 1860's, James Bligh, age 65, Master Plasterer, employer, wife Mary, and children E?, Frances, son James and son Alfred. James is a widower in 1870's, still living on King Street.
*James Bligh,
a master plasterer living at Canterbury, was another person who received
money from Pout to bribe. For that purpose Pout gave him; a few days
before the election, a 20l note of the Canterbury bank. Bligh
changed this note at the bank, and gave the change to a voter named
Marsh, who bribed a man named Bean with 4l, and a man named
Sayer with 5l. Of the remaining 11l, Marsh kept 4l,
under the pretense of "a trifle for himself for an outstanding
debt," and 7l. he transmitted to one Ebenezer Masters,
as the price for his vote, though Masters would not admit it was a
bribe, but merely that it was "a gift for telling whom he was
going to vote for." This man, Bligh was concerned in another
act of bribery, which requires to be noticed, not only as affording
a remarkable instance of the practice which we have reason to believe
prevailed in Canterbury to a great extent, of what may not inappropriately
be termed "sweating the bribe" on its way from the hands
of the briber to those of the bribed, but also on account of the curious
manner in which this change at the bank of the 20l. note given to
him by Pout tended to implicate him in the fraudulent abstraction
of the notes which will be afterwards mentioned. Bligh was in communication
with a voter of the name of WHITE, who had a father and a brother
also voters (the latter resided at Ashford, a town about 14 miles
distant from Canterbury). He agreed with White for the purchase of
the three votes for 15l. And advanced him a sovereign to fetch his
brother from Ashford. After the three had voted, Bligh told him that
he would find a parcel at his (Bligh's) house. White accordingly went
to Bligh's house, and received a parcel containing fourteen sovereigns,
which with the sovereign already advanced, made up the stipulated
15l. Bligh informed us that he told a Mr. WARD, who was and
is the editor of a Conservative journal published in Canterbury that
he had arranged with the Whites for the purchase of their votes and
should want the necessary money, but had not stated the exact sum
which he had agreed to pay for them. Mr. Ward on the other hand, declared
that he gathered from what passed between Bligh and himself that a
sum of 30l was required by Bligh to carry out his contract
with the Whites. Ward had no funds at his own disposal for the purposes
of bribery, but a Mr. White COLLARD, who was chairman of a district
committee in the Tory interest had. Ward represented to Collard that
30l was wanted by Bligh to purchase the votes of the Whites. This
was told by Ward to Collard in a small room (where the two were alone)
adjoining the general committee room, and Collard thereupon placed
that sum in notes, of which one was a 20l note of a Canterbury
bank, in an envelope, in the presence of Ward. This envelope was stated
by Collard to have been an adhesive one, but Ward declared that it
was fastened with wax, and was sealed by Collard in his presence.
Collard, having placed the 30l. in the envelope, left it, and
Ward also, in the room while he went in to the adjoining committee
room to fetch a man called Ashenden, a son-in-law of Ward's, who was
to give it to Bligh; he was absent but a very few minutes, and sent
Ashenden by Ward and he and Ward immediately quitted the room, and
passing down the street, the envelope was dropped by Ashenden into
Bligh's window. A little girl, a daughter of Bligh's was on the watch,
and she immediately carried it to her father, who opened it in the
presence of his wife, both of whom stated to us that the envelope
was an adhesive one, and that it contained not 30l but 15l.,
and of course, therefore, no 20l note. We may here observe
that Ward stated that Ashenden was never out of his sight from the
time they quitted the committee room together to the time when he
saw him drop the envelope into Bligh's window. The fact, however,
of Bligh having about that time changed a 20l. note tended to strongly
to corroborate the statement of Ward, and to fasten suspicion upon
Bligh but the examination of the banker's clerk by whom the note was
changed proved to demonstration that that note never came from Collard.....We
are bound to add that very little doubt remains upon our minds as
to the party into whose pocket the deference between the 30l.
put into the envelope by Collard, and the 15l. found in the
envelope by Bligh and his wife, had gone.
PP
1852-53
1889 Henry LINK, Market Gardener
1917-18 William JACOBS, General Shop
The east side of King Street (middle section) in July 1954. Most of the old houses seen here were demolished in two phases from the early to mid 1960's. Note the third-floor jettied gables of one of the properties, typical of the late 17th century Canterbury vernacular style, once so common in the city.
Write-up and photo provided by Paul Crampton www.paulcramptonbooks.co.uk/
No. 2
1832 Isaac NEWTON, Retailer of Beer
1838 Thomas MUTTON, listed under Cowkeeper and milkman, 2 King Street, Borough
1889 Henry WILSON, Tailor
1889 Jennings SOUTHEY, Fellmonger & Wool Stapler
1917 John Henry ATTENBOROUGH
No. 3
1889 Alfred DULY, Printer
1917 John HARVEY
No. 4
1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) Mrs. Frances DAVIS, 4 King Street
1917 Frederick DELO
No. 5
1917 Arthur G. BAKER
No. 6
1838 Thomas SUTTON, listed under Builders and Carpenters, 6 King Street
John CAIRNS, Smith *
1889 Charles ROBINSON, Organ Builder
1917 Clifford KNELL
No. 7
Harriett OAKENFULL, Bill Poster, with son Richard GAMBRILL, Clerk *
1917 Charles William CLARK
No. 8
Monastery Cottage
Thomas WHITE, Baker *
1917 A. G. WHIDDETT
No. 9
1865 Poll Book James BOREE, 9 King Street, Canterbury (qualification Parish of St. Mildred)
1889 J. H. Nixey, Staff Clerk
1917 W. J. PAYNE, Timber Merchant
1927 W. J. PAYNE, Electric Saw Mills, 9 King Street, Canterbury (phone book)
Blackfriars North
BRENT'S COTTAGES
No 10
Mary FEDARB *
1917 T. J. GOWER
No. 11
1838 James KING, day (listed under Academies and Seminaries), 11 King Street
Samuel CALDWELL, retired (w) *
1900 John William TODD, a seaman of 11 King Street, Canterbury
1917 Henry BAKER
No. 12
William BRAMFLER, Painter ^
William TOTTMAN, Plasterer *
1917 M. HALLORAN
King Street Square
No. 13
Thomas SMITH, General & Coal Dealer ^
William E. MURREU, Printer, Photography (London) *
1889 Timothy HALLORAN - a Domestic Groom born in Ireland
Timothy HALLORAN, Stableman, Livery, Groom )
1917 Charles KENNETT
No. 14
In 1817 my family members John and Hannah TERRY were living on King Street. John was working as a Labourer.
1838 John TERRY, (Greengrocer Only), 14 King Street ...see also Donjon Fields for James TERRY
John BRIENT, Baker ^
Alfred William DULY, Printer *
1917 James E. WILLIAMS
No. 15
Thomas KELSON, Master Carpenter ^ _(Built some houses in Notley Street)
Charlotte HUGHES, Hawker )
George LUFF, Brewhouse Labourer *
John CONSTABLE
BAPTISTS CHAPEL
The photograph above showing the junction of King Street (west side) and Mill Lane, mid 1960's. The site of no. 13 - 15 shows only the ground floor wall fragments remaining. Possibly demolished in the slum clearance of 1937 and 1938.
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Mill Lane
No. 16
Jane NASH, Lodging house ^
George BROWN (Canterbury Election Commission) c. 1881
(Mr. Dicey) Where do you live? 16 King Street
What is your occupation? French Polisher and Cabinet Maker
Did you get anything at the last election? No, not at the last election.
You got something after the election? Yes.
How much? 10s.
Who from? Dobson
It was for your vote? I do not know; I did not promise my vote
You would not have got it if you had not voted? I do not know that, but I did not promise my vote at all
But you would have got it if you had not voted? No, I do not think so.
You got nothing in 1879? No.
George BROWN, French Polisher *
1889 George BROWN, French Polisher
Emily LANGFORD )
1917 John SMITH
No. 17
1838 Joseph LUNNISS, Butcher, 17 King Street
Stephen BOURN, Hair Dresser %
William HOGBEN, Coachman ^
Edward FAIRBRASS, Milkman *
Albert WHITE, cook * (?)
1889 Edward FAIRBRASS, Milkman
Edward FAIRBRASS, Church Official (Parish Clerk) )
James HOGBEN, Butcher
1917 Frederick John FAIRBRASS
No. 18
1838 William SMITH, Boot and Shoe Maker, 18 King Street
1838 Mrs. Elizabeth GRACE, Miller (dressmaker), 18 King Street
1838 Mrs. Elizabeth GRACE, Stay and Corset Maker, 18 King Street
Henry WILSON, Tailor % ^
Black Prince's Chantry No. 18 - Henry LEACH, Rag Dealer * (?)
Ann HILGRAVE, Shopkeeper *
1889 Mrs. BISHOP
1917 George CLAYSON, China Rivetter
No. 19
1838 Miss Mary TERRY, Stay and Corset Maker, 19 King Street
1851 death of a Mary Ann Terry age 57 of King Street, buried at St. Alphage on May 25th
1889 Higham PRESS, tailor
1917 William DEVERSON, Tailor
No. 20
1838 Mrs. Amy POOLEY, Listed under Grocery Dealers, 20 King Street
50's - 60's Daniel TAPPENDEN, Tailor & Shopkeeper ^
CROWN & ANCHOR Joseph SADDLETON, Pulican *
1889 - 1900's Mrs. Esther SKINNER, "FARRIER'S ARMS"
1917 J. E. KENNEDY
JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
BLIGH'S COTTAGES
No. 21
George HINTON, Journeyman Tailor & John English, Journeyman Carpenter ^
James BLIGH, Plasterer, with wife Jane and 9 children * (no address listed)
1889 James BLIGH, Bricklayer & Plasterer
James BLIGH, Builder, his son Henry is a Plumber
1903 James BLIGH, Plasterer
1917-18 James BLIGH, Builder
GREENS MARINE STORES
1917 G. R. JACKSON Ltd. Marine Stores
G. R. JACKSON (ltd.) General Merchants; E. A. Short, Manager (tele. 114) *see also Knott's lane
No. 22
BLACK PRINCES CHANTRY
Black Princes Chantry - No. 22 John J. L. ADMAN, retired builder *
1889 John James Lepine ADAMS
Susanna GREEN, Rug Merchant )
1917-18 E. A. SHORT
A view of the Black Princes Chantry (No. 22), with Jackson's Yard in the background. Knott's lane is to the right and King street is front and center (No. 20 and 21). You can see the Jewish Synagogue on the bottom left hand side.
KNOTT'S LANE
Looking up King Street towards "The Friars, Best Lane and Orange Street"
No. 23
1838 Edward COOK, Chimney Sweep, 23 King Street
1838 Edward COOK, Listed under Coal Merchant and Dealers, 23 King Street
Robert HAYES, Master Chimney Sweep ^
1889 John WOOD, "MILITARY TAVERN"
Thomas WELLARD, Victualler
1917 Richard BRADFORD
No. 24
Philip CLIGG, Master Baker ^
1889 Mrs. Mary POWELL, second hand clothing dealer
1917 Mrs. SIMPSON, Wardrobe Dealer
No. 25
PRINCE OF WALES
Stephen WILL, Victualler ^
1889 Mrs. Mary POWELL, second hand clothing dealer
1917 Mrs. SIMPSON, Wardrobe Dealer
No. 26
1889 Edward MOODY, Grocer
Alfred GREENSTREET, Grocer (
1917 Alfred GREENSTREET, General Shop
No. 27
1838 PRINCE OF WALES, John GRIST, 27 King Street
1838 LITTLE ROSE, James BLISSETT, King Street, Staplegate (?)
Showing the Little Rose Inn on the right
1889 Thomas Wm. JOHNSON, Little Rose Inn
1917 THE LITTLE ROSE, Philip ROWLAND
Left From Borough (here is Cobden Place, Staplegate Place and the Borough)
No. 28
1838 Mrs. Charles NORLEY, Miller, 28 King Street
William SOLLY ^
1889 William COLLEY, Bootmaker
William H. COLLEY, Caretaker of the Museum )
Anthony CARREE, Shoe Maker *
1917 William Henry COLLEY
No. 29
1838 Richard FILMER, Smith, 29 King Street
James BEAN, Agricultural Labourer ^
Benjamin GAFFEE, Cordwainer *
1889 H. T. ADSLEY, Sweet shop
1917 Mrs. E. BLISSETT
No. 30
1838 Policeman, Thomas ADDIS, 30 King Street
Thomas DOBSON, Baker *
1889 - c.1903 Thomas DOBSON, Baker
1917 William MORRIS, Baker
No. 31
George MAXTED, Postman * (?)
1881 JOHN TERRY, (Slept out) No 31 King Street
1889 John PARRY, currier
1917 Harry HAZELDEN
No. 32
1889 Alfred GREENSTREET, Milk Seller
William DEVERSON, Labourer )
John CHRISTIAN, Bricklayer *
1889 Alfred GREENSTREET, Milk Seller
1917 John KIRBY
No. 33
1889 John William PARRY, Leather Cutter
Frank BLIGH, Plumber )
BUILDERS STORE *
Emma COGGER (Kate BLIGH is her Neice) *
1889 John William PARRY, leather cutter
1917 Alfred SOUTON
Highbury Cottages
No. 34
1838 Mrs. Rebecca HOMERSHAM, Grocery Dealer, 34 King Street
Charles VILE, Tailor *
1889 William BROMLEY, labourer
1917 Edward William BAKER
No. 35
1838 EIGHT BELLS, Michael ELLEN, 35 King Street
Emily BARKER *
1889 Edmund PHILPOT
1917 Mrs. MARSH
No. 36
no one listed *
1889 Mrs. HAMMOND
1917 Stanley COLLARD
No. 37
James AUSTIN, Tanners Labourer )
Robert WIDDOWS *
1889 vacant
1917 John FORD
No. 38
1838 Thomas STACE, Boot and Shoe Maker, 38 King Street
Henry GOODHEW, Milk Carrier )
Augusta CHILD *
1889 Frederick GREEN, labourer
1917 Mrs. MAY
No. 39
Sarah HOPPER *
1889 James PARRY, carter
1917 W. P. JORDAN
No. 40
1889 J. MILLS, Stone Mason
Henry HORTON, Labourer )
1917 William LOVELAND
No. 41
1838 Henry WEST, Mealman, 41 King Street
Henry WEST, Baker, wife Mary $
Sarah ADMANS *
1889 William GOMM, Tailer
1917 Mrs. MOON
No. 42
William DEVERSON, Labourer *
1889 William DEVERSON, labourer
1917 Mrs. HADLOW
No. 43
Oct 1883 John BURTON, 43 King Street, Labourer
1889 William DITTON "EIGHT
BELLS TAVERN"
1893 Jane GRANT (death of a child aged 4, Eight Bells Inn)
Stephen CASTLE, Brewer's Labourer )
EIGHT BELLS, William DITTON, Victualler *
1917 EIGHT BELLS, R. BARKER
No. 44
1889 Edward MILES, Grocer
William H. SCROSCTON, Grocer )
George E. SMALL, Grocer *
1917 William VASS
No. 45
1889 Edward MILES, Grocer
William H. SCROSCTON, Grocer )
Henry BARBER, Tanner *
1917 George H. HADLOW
No. 46
1889 Frank HILLS, Gardener & Shopkeeper
John D. FORD, Green Grocer )
Thomas MASON, General Dealer *
1917 George FORD, Green Grocer
No. 47
Henry G. KENNINGTON *
Harry GIBSON *
1889 Thomas MASON, general dealer
No. 48
Mary A. ATTWOOD *
1889 Stephen KNOTT, painter
No. 49
William MARTIN, Brewers Servant *
1889 Mrs. WICKENDEN
No. 50
1889 Henry ASHBY
No. 51
1889 T. Robinson, "PRINCE OF WALES INN"
Pub, Oliver B. GOODSHEW )
PRINCE OF WALES, Thomas JOHNSON, Victualler *
1917 PRINCE OF WALES, T. W. VENABLES
Brent's Cottages *
here is St. Alphage Lane
Looking from The Friars down King Street towards St. Alphage Lane on the right in the far distance
No. 52
1889 empty
Reuben C. HOLLAND, Fish Hawker )
1903 William Thomas BROWN, Fishmonger
1917 Geroge EASTON, Bootmaker
What No. 53-57 King Street (The Cloisters) now look like
No. 53
1889 vacant
1917 nothing listed
*purchase of property 53 King Street by the city
No. 54
1889 Vacant
Stephen OAKENFULL, Bill Poster & Town Crier )
1917 Henry BRADFORD
No. 55
1889 George GAMBRELL, Tailor
1917 William CULLEN
No. 56
1889 William CULLEN, Greengrocer
1917 William T. CORNFORD, General Shop
56 King Street (The Woollen Drapers and Tailors Co)
No. 57
1889 Mrs. Sarah Ann GRACE, Stay & Corset Maker
Esther POTTS, Sick Nurse )
1917 Frederick DAVISON, Tailor
No. 58
1889 Thomas NEEVES, Labourer
Catherine M. DALRYMPLE (w) )
1917 Mrs. DALRYMPLE
1805-7
George GAMBIER, bricklayer
Edward HARNETT, baker
Thomas and Joshua LEEMING, attornies
John PALMER, instrument tuner and repairer
Jacob PARSLEY, baker
Henry PIDDOCK, cabinet maker and japanner
Joseph POTTER, builder
2 cases of measles attended to in an epidemic of this disease in King Street, Canterbury during 1852 by G. Rigden, Esq. (138 cases total in the city)
15 cases were fatal of the 138 cases seen. AMJ
"Death - In King Street, Canterbury, aged 98, Mrs. Anna Maria LEFEVRE. She has lived in the reigns of four Kings of England, and been subjected to various diversities of fortune." The Gentlemen's Magazine 1820 & the Annual Register 1820
1823 Marriage Mr. J. DOLBY, of Margate to Mrs. E. HAMBROOK, of King's Street, Canterbury. MM1823
Osmond SNOULTEN, Fellmonger, King Street, Canterbury *noted in the List of Freemen 1830
1830 Mr. Homersham, King Street Canterbury, subscriber to England's Topographer
1885 Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trades - Jenning U. Southee, listed under Fellmongers
1838 William COPPINS, Brawn manufacturer, King Street
1838 William COPPINS, Bricklayer, King Street
1838 Michael WRAKE, King Street
1838 Mrs. Ann WHITE, listed under Lodging House Keeper, King Street
1838 CROWN AND ANCHOR, Joseph ADMANS, King Street