FALCON Pub of Gillingham

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Sort file:- Gillingham, April, 2024.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 09 April, 2024.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1848-

Falcon Inn

Closed 2010

95 Marlborough Road / 46 Park Road

Gillingham

https://whatpub.com/falcon

Above photo, date unknown, by Andy Johnson.

Above photo 2012 kindly sent by Colin Haggart.

Above sign left, 1974, sign right June 1985.

With thanks from Roger Pester and Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

The "Falcon Inn" was in Park Place (now renamed Marlborough Road), Gillingham and was founded sometime before 1849. The exact origin of the name is uncertain, but as a pub name there are a number of potential origins. The falcon is a heraldic device used by the House of York and Queen Elizabeth I. Some Inn signs represented it as the sport of falconry, so that is another possible origin. It also appears in the badge of Trumans Brewers.

The Falcon closed as a pub in 2010 and re-opened as a cafe and bakery, retaining the old name.

Chatham News, Saturday 5 September 1863.

APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSEES.

Mr. Hayward applied for a license for the "Falcon" beer-house, kept by Mrs Sarah Knight, Park Place, New Brompton. There was no opposition, and the application was granted.

[By a slip, we stated erroneously last week that this application was refused.]

LICENSEE LIST

JACKSON William 1861+ (age 48 in 1861)