Robin Hood (Dover)

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The site of the Robin Hood on Townwall Street.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|From business card of G. J. Knight, proprietor of the Robin Hood, 1907-30 / Kent's Public House Archive Site: Robin Hood, 40 Townwall Street, Dover; photo submitted by Kathleen Hollingsbee; reused with the kind permission of Paul Skelton.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-16. Photo used with the kind permission of Paul Skelton. Entry largely based on Barry Smith and Paul Skelton's page on the pub.

The Robin Hood on 40 Townwall Street in Dover was in business by 1840 and until early in WWII, when it was so heavily damaged during a German bombing raid that it never reopened. The building was demolished in 1957.

The pub was situated on a corner – evidently the eastern – of Townwall Street and Mill Lane. The address was usually given as 40 Townwall Street, but 41 Townwall Street (1874), Mill Lane (1874), and St James Lane (1840, 1847, 1862) also occur. Mill Lane would have been the lane running north from Townwall Street immediately east of the building in which the pub was situated.

In 1906, the pub was renovated, practially rebuilt, and the frontage was covered in mosaic tiles depicting Robin Hood. Early in World War II, the pub was so badly damaged during a German bombing raid that it never reopened. An early casualty of world war two, it never reopened at the peace. Permission to rectify the war damage at a cost of £930 was refused in August 1946.

In the late 1960s, many buildings on Townwall Street were demolished when the present dual carriageway was constructed.

• Monthly Conservative meeint held in the pub
• 1844. coroner's inquest
• 1845. coroner's inquest
• 1846. coroner's inquest
• the local lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids was reestablished at a meeting there
• 1867. coroner's inquest (twice)
• 1869. coroner's inquest
• 1876 Odd Fellows' annual supper held there
• 1886 Meeting of Dover Licensed Victuallers' Association
• 1889. Annual meeting od Dover Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society

Lists of publicans can be found at Kent's Public House Archive Site and the Pub Wiki. Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• The Closed Pubs Project: Kent: Dover: Robin Hood
• Kent's Public House Archive Site: Robin Hood, 40 Townwall Street, Dover
• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, Townwall Street, Dover
• Roots Chat: Robin Hood Inn, Dover.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.14 (c. 1865; surveyed 1862), No Copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.14 (1898; rev. 1883) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.14 (1898; rev. 1883–97)
• 25" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.14 & 15 (1907; rev. 1906)
• 25" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.14 (1945; rev. 1937–38)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (1899; rev. 1866–97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII (1876; surveyed 1871–72)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (1899; rev. 1866–97)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (1908; rev. 1906)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (c. 1944; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Kent LXVIII.SW (1950; rev. 1937–38).

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