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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1954

(Name from)

 Cat and Cracker

Latest ????

39 High Street

Isle of Grain

Cat and Cracker 1956

Above photo 1956.
Cat and Cracker 1958

Above photo, circa 1958, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Formerly a Style & Winch pub, from the mid-1950s the pub changed livery no fewer than 4 times in the subsequent 15 years, as the brewing industry consolidated into what become known as the Big 6. At the time this photograph was taken, the newly-renamed pub was midway between being in S & W livery and that of Courage & Barclay. The wall sign on the left-hand wall confirms that the pub was a Fully Licensed Hotel.
Cat and Cracker 1960

Above photo, 1960.
Cat and Cracker sign

Above sign, date unknown, kindly sent by Roger Corbett.
Cat and Cracker ladies pool team

Above photo, date and names unknown, showing the ladies pool team.

 

The "Cat and Cracker" pub was once called the "Cock Inn." In 1954 the name was changed, as a play on the words ‘catalytic cracker', a plant at the oil refinery which reduces the oil by intense heat subjection to its component parts.

I am informed that the pub was looking rather dilapidated in the 1970s and 80s and was demolished and replaced by housing in 2000.

 

Cat and Cracker location 2021

Above Google image, May 2021.

 

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