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Page Updated:- Sunday, 16 April, 2023.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1851

(Name from)

Kentish Arms

Closed 31 Dec 1910

63 High Street

Dartford

Dartford pubs drawing 1798

Above engraving 1798, showing what I believe to be the following signs and building attached:- (Red) "Bull's Head," (Yellow) "Black Boy," (Torquoise) "Royal Exchange," (Orange) "New Inn," "Dark Blue) "White Hart," (Pink) "Crown," (Green) "Kentish Arms."

Dartford pubs 1798

Above showing close-up of signs.

Invicta rear

Above photo, date unknown showing the rear of the pub/lodging house.

Kentish Arms map

Above map, date unknown.

 

Originally known as the "Marquis of Granby" and "Old Granby". The pub was closed in 1910 and the building demolished in 1920 when the road was widened.

See Dartford Map 1905.

Shirley Barr suggests that the pub has also been known as the "Invicta" at some stage of its existence.

 

LICENSEE LIST

SMITH John 1858+

PACKMAN William 1861-87 (also Lodging House Keeper age 58 in 1881Census)

LOWRY Sophia Mrs 1903+ Kelly's 1903

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

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

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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