56 Hythe Street

Dartford

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Michael Norman.

Above photo 1965, by Gladys Bird.

Above Google image, June 2016.

Above photo 2024, kindly sent by John Pett.

Immediately to the left was the site of Kidds Brewery, which became the Co-op and is now The Orchard West which is a temporary site for the Orchard Theatre which is close by, but is currently shut due to dodgy concrete! (2024).

Substantiated by 1871, and part of the tied estate of Dartford brewers C N Kidd & Son, whose brewery is just visible behind the pub in the old photograph. Ownership passed to Courage when they took over Kidd's in 1937. It remained a Courage house until its closure in 1966 and after remaining closed for a few years it eventually reopened as Dartford's first curry house. Today (2020) called Kent Curry.

See Dartford Map 1905.

LICENSEE LIST

BLUNT Charles 1891+

WEST Edmund July/1894+

TAYLOR Henry 1903+

HAZEL Robert E 1913+

COOPER Teresa Mrs 1918-22+

WILKINSON Thomas W 1930-38+

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

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

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