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Lower Grange (Rainham) Road
(Hamlet of Grench 1851 )
Gillingham
01634 851310
https://www.thehastingsarms.co.uk/
https://whatpub.com/hastings-arms
Above photo, date unknown. |
 Above photo
2011, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick. |
Above photo 2011, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick. |
Above Google image, October 2022. |
 
Above signs, 1991.
 
Above sign left, October 1986. Sign right 2011.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com.
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The links with the Sussex resort might seem remote, but in fact Grange
was a non-corporate member of Hastings, the only Cinque Port outside Kent.
Fordwich and Faversham were also Port ‘limbs', of Sandwich and Dover
respectively.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 25 August 1846.
Gillingham. Hamlet of Grange.
On Saturday last, J Hinde, Esq., held an inquest at the "Hastings Arms,"
on Jordan Harrisson, age 19 years, a labourer, who dropped down in the
shop of Mr. Middleton, blacksmith, the day before, and expired
instantly. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had been previously
unwell for some time. The jury Returned a verdict that deceased "Died
from natural causes."
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Information below by Ben Levick
In the 1850s the Lower Halstow Wesleyan Church borrowed £20 from the
Gillingham Club who met at the "Hastings Arms" in order to buy their
chapel and change allegiance to the United Methodist Church. The exact
link between the Wesleyans and the pub is unknown.
The public houses of Grange came under the Justices of the Peace at
Hastings, not the local authority, and this could cause problems when
the licensee committed a licensing offence - letters in the local
archive show there was sometimes confusion over who was responsible for
dealing with these issues, the local licensing authority or the Hastings
one!
The pub was rebuilt on its present site in 1883.
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South Eastern Gazette, 18 December, 1860.
Conviction of a Publican for Sunday Trading.
Mr. W. Melton, landlord of the "Malt-shovel and Hasting’s Arms,"
Grange, was also charged with a similar offence,
(with having his house open for the sale of
liquors at improper hours,) twelve men having been found
in the tap-room, all drinking. In this case defendant was fined 10s.
and 10s. costs.
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Hastings and St Leonards Observer 6 May 1871.
TRANSFERS.
"Hastings Arms," Hamlet of Grange, from James Kitchingham to John West.
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Above photo circa 1890 with what is believed to be licensee John West's
grand-daughter.
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Hastings and St Leonards Observer, Saturday 25 March 1933.
Licensing Anomaly. Why two public houses will keep open later.
Two public houses in Gillingham, Kent, will open until 10:30 p.m.
During the summer months in spite of the fact that the Chatham
Licensing Magistrates, whose area includes Gillingham, have refused
any local extension.
The reason is that these two hostelries, the "Hastings Arms" and the
"Mulberry Tree," come under the jurisdiction of the Hastings
justices, who have sanctioned the extra half hour.
The result is a licensing anomaly that has no parallel elsewhere in
the country. While the other public houses of Gillingham will be
closed and shuttered, the "Hastings Arms" and the "Mulberry Tree"
will be reaping in rich harvest.
And it is all because of the time, centuries ago, when Hastings
acquired the "Manor and Grange neare Jelingham" as a limb of the
Cinque Port of Hastings.
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Hastings and St Leonards Observer 21 May 1938.
LICENSE TRANSFER.
"Hastings Arms," Grange, Gillingham, which comes under the jurisdiction of
the Hastings Licensing Bench, from Albert Allen Tolley to Henry John Bretton. |
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From the
https://www.kentonline.co.uk 7 March 2014, By Nicola Jordan.
Three Gillingham men arrested after fight breaks out during wake at the
Hastings Arms in Lower Rainham Road.
A fight broke out at a wake at a pub in Gillingham yesterday evening.
Three men from Gillingham were arrested after the fracas erupted at the
Hastings Arms, in Lower Rainham Road, at about 6.25pm.
The men - aged 26, 54 and 57 - are being held in custody on suspicion of
affray.
The landlord, who did not want to be named, said: "The police were
called and the matter was dealt with effectively.
"We carried on trading as normal."
The Hastings Arms, which dates back to 1824, is a popular venue for
funeral parties. |
LICENSEE LIST
MEDHURST Walter 1851+ (age 44 in 1851)
MELTON W Mr 1860+
KITCHINGHAM James to May/1871
WEST John May/1871-90+ (age 48 in 1881)
ROUT William 1891+ (age 63 in 1891)
MILES Thomas 1901+
GODMOH Albert 1903+
TOLLEY Albert Allen to May/1938
BRETTON Henry John May/1938+
NOKES G P 1955+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/HastingsArms.shtml
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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