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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1934

 Olde George

Latest ????

(Name to)

344 City Way

Rochester

Old George sign 1964

Above sign 1964.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

 

I believe this is the same pub as is now known as the "George" but think it may have gone under the name "Olde George" when first built in 1934.

 

Barclay, Perkin's Anchor Magazine. Volume XIV, No.7 July 1934. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Olde George, Rochester.

NEW HOUSES IN THE MEDWAY TOWNS.

New houses have been built by Messrs. Style & Winch in the Rochester-Chatham area.

The "Old George," High Street, Strood, has been closed and a new house erected on City Way, Rochester. A great deal of building is going on the neighbourhood. The "Old George" is also near the new Rochester Aerodrome, where the Imperial Airways 39-seaters "Scylla" and "Syrynx" (the largest air liners in use) have been assembled and flown.

Syrynx in flight 1934

Above photo showing the Short L17 G-ACJJ "Scylla" taken in April 1934.

 

LICENSEE LIST

AUSTIN Alfred 1938-55+

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

 

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