Licensees :
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ROBERT BEANE / BEAN	1806 - 1810
Mrs DEAN (Bean ?) widow	1822
ELIZABETH BEANE	1830
GREGORY ROBINSON Died Sunday 16th November 1845 - age 72 See opposite.	1836 - 1845
Mrs CHARLOTTE ROBINSON	1846
THOMAS BROWNE	1850
WILLIAM BARKER age 35	1851
R. S. W. LONG	1854
ROBERT WALTER (Long??) according to Melville	1856
THOMAS BARBER ANGATE according to Craven	1856
WILLIAM CARVER	1858 - 1859
WILLIAM BLYTH	by * 1859
JOHN WILLIAM CROPP	10.10.1871
WALTER EMMS	25.03.1875
Convicted 11.04.1876 of selling out of hours. Fine £1 plus 8/- costs or 7 days detention.
HENRY THURSTON	03.02.1879
WILLIAM EDWARD GASKIN	27.02.1879
WILLIAM CADDELL LEWIS	10.10.1879
JOSHUA THOMPSON	30.08.1880
JOHN KING	29.03.1881
LOUIS PHILIP WILCOX	25.03.1887
MARY WILCOX	30.06.1891
ERNEST MANN	06.04.1915
WILLIAM HENRY ABBOTT	13.07.1915
ALFRED DAVID BRISTER	08.02.1927
CECIL TRETISE	20.11.1934
ERNEST MANN	08.03.1938

Named the BLUE LAST in late 1700's.

Renamed the DART in 1938 when premises were extended into the adjoining building, 137 Ber Street.



Licensee Gregory Robinson served in the navy and was with Lord Howe on the 1st June 1794 (French Revolutionary War) and in several other engagements.
He was one of the crew of the St. George which was wrecked off the coast of Jutland on the night of 24th December 1811. A three decker, the St George had a crew of about 700, only 10 survived. The ship Defence also floundered and only six of her crew survived.
Mr. Robinson was in the water for thirty-three hours.
He was wrecked on two other occasions.



On Friday 2nd April 1886, Justices Denman and Cave heard accusations of illegal or corrupt practices in the Elections.
Robert Bush, a music master, admitted to treating some men at the Bull's Head, giving each a scarf, showing Conservative colours, and enjoining them to vote for Bullard. The music master lost his vote.