Henry Thomas Hayward
(the younger)
2 Wellington Place
17 Nelson Street
Lord Nelson Inn, Short Street
32a Nelson Street
90 Middle Street
Occupation: Boatbuilder
Thanet Advertiser
Thomas Hayward was the last of the Hayward’s to build boats in Deal. His father was Isaac Gammon Hayward who worked with his own father Thomas Hayward in the boatbuilding shop and yard in Cottage Row. The elder Henry Thomas Hayward, and uncle to this Henry Thomas and probable namesake, also worked with his father and then later with his brother, Isaac Gammon, before bankruptcy took its toll.
In the early 1890s, Henry Thomas took over The Lord Nelson pub in Short Street. This area of Deal was lost to the bombing in the second world war that flattened the Middle Street Car Park area. A ‘shortened’ piece of Short Street can be found alongside The Clarendon Hotel. Unfortunately, there are no images of the pub itself.
Henry Thomas was involved in building the last of Deal’s luggers the Cosomopolite. This was the second lugger of that name, the first being lost after a collision with built the Coal Tar, a Welsh schooner October 1890. The new Cosmopolite was paid for by a fund set up to aid the boatmen who had lost their livelihood.
From Last of our Luggers by E C Pain