123 Gardiner Street

Gillingham

https://whatpub.com/burnt-oak

Above photo 1910.

Above postcard, date unknown.

Above photo, 1985, kindly sent by Michael Mirams.

Coloured version of about, 1985.

Above photo 2008 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo 2008.

Above photo date 2011, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

Above sign left, November 1987, sign right 2001. With thanks from Brian Curtis and Roger Pester www.innsignsociety.com.

Above card issued March 1955. Sign series 4 number 9.

Also address as number 89 in the 1881 census.

The "Burnt Oak" was an area of Brompton which gave its name to the pub and a row of houses. If the inn sign is accurate, an old oak tree which stood in the area was struck by lightning, which reduced it to a black stump.

Closed by 2019 and converted into flats.

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

LICENSEE LIST

WILLIAMS Hetty Jane to 1870

JELL William 1881-91+ (age 50 in 1881)

BAILEY John Joseph 1913+

MECKLIFF Sidney 1918+

BLACKWELL William Charles 1922-30

WOOD George 1939+

SMITH Alfred J M 1955+

TOMLIN Alf 1972+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/BurntOak.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/burntoak.html

Census

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