Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 17th August 1946.

Country Magazine, Isle of Sheppey.

A bar of a centuries old inn, situated on the banks of the River Swale in the Isle of Sheppey, became a B.B.C. studio on Sunday for the broadcast of "Country Magazine Program."

It is the "Ferry House Inn," Harty, and apart from the people on the island and yachtsman who sail up the Swale, few others know of its existence, as it is on the marshes four miles from the nearest road.

Local legends have it that the in was the haunt of smugglers that Mr. Marshall Pollock, who owns it, has found nothing to confirm this.

It was originally built to house workers from the farms on the marshes round about, and in the bar where this broadcast took place you can still see the lodgers' lockers where they kept their food and a stoves on which they cooked it.

The "Ferry House" kept its name from the ferry which runs between Harty, Isle of Sheppey and Faversham (Kent,) on the mainland.

Joe Dane has been a ferry man for many years. Listeners heard stories of "Dirty Crossings" from Joe who also remembers a former landlady at the inn, waiting at the foot of the stairs at closing time to collect the four pence from the lodgers before they retired.

Dane also talked about the bird life on the marshes, where teal, wild duck and other birds abound.

Other speakers included a farmer from the marshes, Mr. Marshall Pollock, a ship-builder from Faversham, who brought the "Ferry House" in 1937 to popularize the Swale among yachtsman, and several other local characters.

These were brought to the microphone by John Snagge, and the music under the direction of Francis Collison, was provided by two fiddles, a concertina and a piano. The folk song in this programme was one which Collison discovered on the Isle of Sheppey and was called "Tarry Trousers."