Leisure, Sport and Entertainment > Pubs and Hotels

Pubs !

(1/4) > >>

castle261:
My connection with the ` Robin Hood Pub `has no with a story on here.
My mate & I used go to motor cycling on Sundays during 1944. We were both on old bikes
 mine a Triumph 1934 - his an Ariel - well all going ok until - the Thanet Way when  I broke
down we tried to mend it, no avail - then a small car like a Morgan stopped - with two
naval officers in it ` Can we help - they looked but beyond repair. `Can we give you a lift `
when they knew where we were from. My mate left to go home on his Ariel, I accepted a
lift. we are going to stop at the ` Robin Hood pub ` for a drink -  they said. I had a wonderful
time with them - me a lad of 17 - they bought me drink - then took me - to my home.
Two nice Gentlemen.

Smiffy:
If all you wanted was a few pints and a bit of a laugh with your pals, I don't think it mattered if you couldn't buy a glass of wine!

pr1uk:

--- Quote from: Smiffy on November 10, 2019, 01:37:59 PM ---
There is a reference I have found to the "Olde Fox and Hounds, Ordnance Place" which implies that it was a Beer House rather than a fully licensed pub like the New Fox and Hounds was. There is also an address of 3 Perry Street which would place it just around the corner from the New Fox - would this be correct?
 
I used to live in the area myself but by this time nearly all of the old Ordnance Place had been cleared. There is a real dearth of photographs of this part of Chatham which at one time was practically a little self-contained town by itself, a bit like Brompton.

--- End quote ---


Yes that's the one so it was a beer house, but they all knew it as a pub

Smiffy:

There is a reference I have found to the "Olde Fox and Hounds, Ordnance Place" which implies that it was a Beer House rather than a fully licensed pub like the New Fox and Hounds was. There is also an address of 3 Perry Street which would place it just around the corner from the New Fox - would this be correct?
 
I used to live in the area myself but by this time nearly all of the old Ordnance Place had been cleared. There is a real dearth of photographs of this part of Chatham which at one time was practically a little self-contained town by itself, a bit like Brompton.

pr1uk:

--- Quote from: Smiffy on November 09, 2019, 07:18:25 PM ---The New Fox & Hounds always seems to have had this name going back to at least 1858 - I can't find a proper reference to the original Fox & Hounds that this one may have replaced, although Perry St. was also known as Fox & Hound Lane. It may have just been a Beer house which would mean it wouldn't be indicated as such on a map. I'm not sure if The New Fox & Hounds is still there, the last I heard it had been renamed "The Fox" and has since closed. The Mason's Arms was situated next door to Bacon's Mill, although by this time only the base of the mill would have remained and was being used as a shop.

--- End quote ---


I always remember The New Fox & Hounds as being called just The Fox, The Old Fox & Hounds was i believe in Perry Street and that one was bombed. I was born after the war in a house which was one of two left after that bombing so as a kid i used to hear people talking about the old pub. Was born in Priest Dale there was only two houses left after that bombing raid ours was the only one lived in there was no road and we used the alley to Boundary Rd. My Grandfather lived in Perry Street and often told stories of the Old Fox.
---
Update
Just talked to my older brother and he confirmed the Old Fox in Perry Street was bombed and he said him and his mates helped pull it down for fire wood.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page