18 Arden Street

Gillingham

01634 787681

https://whatpub.com/monarch

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo date 2011, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

Above Google image, December 2020.

Above sign left, June 1985, sign right, October 1991. Above sign, June 1992. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Addressed as number 12 in the 1881 census.

The pub closed in early 2010 only to open again in September of that year but alas I am informed that in February 2012 it closed again, rumoured to be converted into  a drop-in centre.

Mind you, looking at the picture of 2020, it still looks like a pub albeit a very dilapidated one.

I have just been informed by Gary Bacon (July 2023) that the pub is indeed open and owned by the licensee of the "Plough and Chequers." If fact further research says it was open in 2017 onwards.

Just heard it closed on 21 July 2024 and sold to property developers. That's another one we won't see again.

LICENSEE LIST

DRAPER John Draper (also Army Pensioner age 46 in 1881)

DRAPER Joseph Henry 1882+

DARREN Stanley R 1913-38+

AUSTIN Bob & Debbie 2023+

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

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

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