Margate Old Roads - Brewhouse Hill (6 King Street)

[cguffen]

okay thank you! I will try to use the satellite to view along Brewery Hill - that was one of my guesses as well.
good to know the house was there in 1851 tho


Thanks!!!

[Foad Family Kent]

Ok, this 1954 OS Survey Map shows the area. Foley House is shown in the yard and you can see ruins mentioned, this would have been the area of the houses that your family lived in.

[cguffen]

Brewery labelled and shown on 1897-1900 map
You can see the buildings on the site

[lizziemus]

Good evening

This is fascinating - I am going down to Margate this summer so will really enjoy tracing all this - thank you

Lizzie

[cguffen]

Hi Lizzie
Can you see the map that I posted in the message above when you click on it? I don't know how to put it in the message so it is an attachment - it labels the Brewery
 Just want to be sure it opens
I think your relative was living in a place and not on the street

There are scads of original materials in the East Kent Archives - open from Tues-Fridays 9-5 I think
If you're going there, why not see what they have -
the stuff is listed in the UK archives online

[cguffen]

Kent Land Information System
http://extranet7.kent.gov.uk/klis/

free online maps - very detailed - going way way back.  I used this for the map I attached above - above
you can get 1889's and earlier

East kent Archives Centre in Dover has tons of information about Margate and the people on Brewers Hill
http://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/archives_and_local_history/archive_and_local_history/east_kent_archives_centre.aspx

National Archives online gave me that information above by searching margate and brewery - it lists everything in the East Kent Archives Centre

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Search/search_results.aspx?Page=1&QueryText=Margate+Brewery&SelectedDatabases=A2A|ARCHON|BOOKSHOP|CABPAPERS|DOCUMENTSONLINE|EROL|MOVINGHERE|NRA|NRALISTS|PREM19|RESEARCHGUIDES|E179|CATALOGUE|WEBSITE|TRAFALGAR&SearchType=Quick

Records go back to the 1500"s!!!

Cathy

[MargateHistory]

Just to confirm previous postings, there is useful information about Brewhouse Hill on the http://www.margatelocalhistory.co.uk website. By 1883 (in the Isle of Thanet Guide) the road was known as Brewery Hill, and Foley house was No 8, at that time occupied by a Herbert Jones and an H.W.Travers. Earlier guides (eg Bagshaw 1846) show Foley house occupied by Francis Carr Cobb. Confusingly, the Isle of Thanet Guide says that Brewery Hill was between 25 and 27 High Street , but this is obviously a misprint for 25 to 27 King Street, as the entry for King Street shows Brewery Hill at this position.  The OS 10 feet to the mile map for 1873 (see web site) shows Foley house to be  a fairly large house in the courtyard in front of the Malt kilns of Cobb’s brewery. Interestingly, the road is given no name on the map, which is very unusual, since many very minor courts and roads are named. This suggests that ‘Brewery Hill’ might have been a rather informal name for the courtyard of Cobb’s brewery. Although not named, Edmunds map of 1821 shows a building in the courtyard of Cobb’s brewery with a shape very much like that of Foley house on the 1873 map.
Anthony