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31 Lower Rainham (1871 )
Rainham
Above postcard, date unknown showing the pub in the centre of the
picture. Kindly submitted by Michael Nancollas. |
Above Google image 2009. |
Above Google image 2012. |
Above photo 2016. Kindly submitted by Michael Nancollis, who says:-
There is an end of building sign painted on an end wall in the middle of
this picture which you can make out WINC (STYLE AND WINCH) and below
that ALE. This leads me to believe that it is the building behind the
timbered building in foreground that is the "Jolly Gardner." In the top
picture you can see a tiled lean-to on the building under ALE and if you
look at the white building below you can just make out the line where
that lean-to used to be. Today I have spoken to the householder at 501
Lower Rainham Road and have confirmed that that it is the white building
(Also an old building) that was the "Jolly Gardner" and not the old
house at 505 Lower Rainham Road. In fact had I looked closer, next to
the chimney stack, are the cellar door where the beer was delivered. The
other end of the building was the local general store probably also run
by the pub. |
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Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 12 February 1910.
LICENSING SESSIONS.
The Licensing Sessions for the Sittingbourne Division were held on
Monday, before Messrs. R. G. E. Locke (chairman), G. H. Dean, R. Mercer,
T. E. Denson, H. Payne, C. Ingleton, J. Copland, W. R. Elgar, H. L.
Webb, and W. N. Rule, and Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, C.I.E.
In the past year 170 persons had been proceeded against for drunkenness,
42 being residents. This was a decrease of 17 compared with the return
of the previous year.
The Chairman remarked that the report was very satisfactory. The
Justices. he said, had been pursuing their policy of reducing the number
of licenses,. and had referred four houses to the Compensation
Authority. The four houses were the "White Hart" and "Sir John
Falstaff," Newington; and the "Jolly Gardeners" and the "Woodman's
Arms," Rainham. With these exceptions the whole of the licenses were
renewed.
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Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 12 March 1910.
FOUR LICENCES TO BE REFERRED.
At the adjourned licensing sessions on Monday, Mr. R. G. E. Locke in the
chair, formal evidence as to accommodation and the class of trade was
given by Superintendent Crowhurst in the eases of the "White Hart" and
"Sir John Falstaff," Newington, and the "Jolly Gardeners" and "Woodman's
Arms," Rainham, the licences of which houses had not been renewed at the
Licensing Sessions a month ago. Mr. A. Booth Hearn (Chatham),
representing the owners (Messrs. Shepherd, Neame and Co.) and the tenant
of the "White Hart," Newington, applied for the renewal of the licence.
Formal application for renewal of the licences was also made in respect
of the other three houses. The Bench, however, decided to refer all four
licences to the Compensation Authority.
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From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday, 19 November, 1910.
EAST KENT LICENSING COMMITTEE. SUPPLEMENTAL MEETING.
The "Jolly Gardeners," Lower Rainham, ante 1869 beer-house, owners
Messrs. Style and Winch, Ltd., tenant Mr. William Francis Barnes. Total
amount £1,029; divided, owners £919, tenant £110.
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LICENSEE LIST
GULVIN William 1871-78+ (age 50 in 1871)
GULVIN George 1881+ (age 33 in 1881)
GULVIN William 1882-91+ (age 70 in 1891)
  
GULVIN Sophia 1895-07+ (age 70 in 1891)
    
PACK Edwin 1908-09+
 
BARNES William Francis to Dec/1910
https://pubwiki.co.uk/JollyGardeners.shtml
Census
From the Post Office Directory 1878
From the Kelly's Directory 1882
From the Kelly's Directory 1887
From the Kelly's Directory 1891
From
the Kelly's Directory 1895
From the Kelly's Directory 1899
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
From the Kelly's Directory 1905
From the Kelly's Directory 1907
From the Sittingbourne District Parrett's Directory 1908
From the Kelly's Directory 1909
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