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Peterc:
This is my first post on this wonderfully interesting ForumI am particularly interested in the Banks as I lived there with my parents in the 50's and I am trying to match the House numbers of the High Street to the former Building Nos as St Margaret's Banks. Especially the Pubs as from Ancestry both my wife and I seem to have relatives who ran the same pubs! 
Regarding the pic in this link. The doors are access for the cellars of the two properties (originally One Pub) above with a tunnel under the pavement.Thanks to KeithG for lots of info.nu
--- Quote from: jimawilliams on June 02, 2020, 10:31:29 PM --- Memory fascinates me, how quirky it can be.  On the old forum a few years ago in "Guess the place", a member posted a photo of the double wooden doors, as seen in the brick wall.  We emigrated to Australia from Rochester in 1980 and had not seen those doors since then, as a 24 years old.  So after some 35 years they were instantly recognisable to me, just a set of wooden doors in a brick wall!  I am sure that I would not recognise any other door from that time, for example even my own front door.  I also seem to recall that some members posted about what was behind those doors.
Good to see that they are still there
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3839428,0.5119508,3a,68.4y,219.25h,89.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so8gBI6eHvHTkC9LK2rjBPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Lyn L:
I had completely forgotten Hugh Wyllies shop but oh those lovely fish and chips . Can't remember the last time I had any.

Smiffy:

Where once was Henrie's there is now a yawning abyss:

pete.mason:
 I don't recall ever going to pub site meetings for redevelopment and there being an issue over the design changing,  only the name. As long as it wasn't offensive anything went. Some different on each side like the Chatham Chest and the Billet Sittingbourne. Sign writing is a dying skill , and old signs were often copper sheets with the design punched in so repainting was basically painting by numbers. Modern materials and printing means almost anyone can produce a durable sign to any design. Whitbread had a sign painting shop at Pheonix Brewery Wateringbury, not sure when it closed but was't there in 1970s

KeithG:
Just a question?...In 1895 the sign at the Nags Head was a Horses head which i understand as an old horse no good for work anymore.
In 1962 i have a picture of the Nags Head with no sign just a Courage & Barclay sign but now in 1990 a sign of a nagging woman?


Are signs allowed to be changed, does anyone know?

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