28 London Road

Rainham Mark

https://whatpub.com/hop-vine

Above photo 2003, from http://www.rainham-history.co.uk

Above photo 2005, from http://www.rainham-history.co.uk

Above picture, May 2011, from http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk Above sign left, November 1987, sign right May 2011. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

The "Hop and Vine" was part of a Whitbread Fremlins concept of creating up market wine/cask ale bars. Interiors were very much bare, sawn timber with a cooled back fitting with about 6 different cask ales dispensing directly from the cask. The pub one also had a large wine fridge in the back counter with an over engineered dispense system designed to top the opened bottles up with nitrogen to prevent oxidation. Rainham Mark, upmarket are not words that seem to go together - I can only think they were trying to attract executives etc from the Industrial estates.

After Green King had lost interest in the pub, it was sold to London based development company Zaan and has now been sold and converted into yet another Pizza Hut.

Above pub converted into Pizza Hut 2014.

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

???? Colleen & Geoff 1983+

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