PLOUGH INN Pub of Gillingham

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Gillingham, July, 2021.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 20 July, 2021.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

Plough Inn

Latest 1990s

(Name to)

11 (7) Britton Street

New Brompton

Gillingham

Above photo 1980s, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

Above sign, October 1991.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Information below by Ben Levick

The "Plough" used to stand fully in Britton Street, but was bombed during WW2, when it moved to the corner of Britton Street and the High Street. The building it moved into had temporarily housed Gillingham Library before the war, whilst the present Library was being built. It remained there until the 1990s when it changed name and became "Vincents." It closed in the 2000s and the flats were built in its place.

Above photo showing the original location.

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.

I am informed that the pub was bombed in 1941 which killed the licensee.

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 31 May 1859.

CHATHAM AND GILLINGHAM, KENT.

Mr. J. T. Skinner, HAS received instructions from the Proprietor to SELL by AUCTION, at the "Sun Hotel," Chatham, on Wednesday, the 15th June, 1859, At five o'clock in the evening, The following valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, in seven lots, vis.

Lot 3.— Two brick and tiled DWELLING-HOUSES, with outbuildings in rear, and valuable piece of BUILDING LAND, at the north side thereof, situate opposite the "Plough" public-house, Upper Britton-street, New Brompton, Gillingham, Kent, and now in the tenures of John Shorter and James Southgate, at weekly rentals amounting to £12 11s. 4d. per annum (less rates and taxes).

LICENSEE LIST

TANNER John 1828+