ADMIRAL BEATTY Pub of Gravesend

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Gravesend, October, 2024.

Page Updated:- Friday, 11 October, 2024.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1946

Admiral Beatty

Closed 1998

78 Valley Drive

Gravesend

https://whatpub.com/admiral-beatty

Above photo showing the building prior to its rebuild in the 1960s. Kindly supplied by Jason Kemsley.

Above photo after rebuild. Kindly supplied by Jason Kemsley.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown. Kindly supplied by John Hopperton.

Above photo showing the demolition of the "Admiral Beatty."

Kindly supplied by Jason Kemsley.

I have found information that this was the first pub in Valley Drive that was prefabricated and it was opened in July 1946, and had the license from the recently closed "Albion Tavern" in Albion Road transferred here.

The pub was rebuilt in 1960 and gained a new license on 13th April that same year as shown in the second picture above.

I am also informed that it was closed in 1989 but reopened 14th November, 1990 but this too closed in 1998.

It was named after Admiral David Beatty (1871-1936) who commanded the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.

Further research shows in the picture below, that this building too has been demolished in the year 1999.

Above image from Google 2012.

From an email received 25 February 2015.

Dear Mr. Skelton,

I worked at the "Admiral Beatty" as a student at weekends/holidays during the early 1960s (mainly in the off-licence) shortly after the pub was rebuilt.

The Landlord was Robert (Bob) Matheson who lived over the pub with his wife and three children. He was a Scotsman who had previously been in the Seaforth Highlanders.

My memory of the prefabricated building was that the saloon bar was to the left of the central entrance, and the public bar to the right.

Graham Johnson.

Thanks for your co-operation. Every email is answered and all information referenced to the supplier.

This page will be updated as soon as further information is found.

LICENSEE LIST

MATHESON Robert 1960s

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

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-

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