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

Above photo 2015.

Above signs, March 1986.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above photo showing an outing to Beaulieu Motor Museum circa 1972

Hello from New Zealand,

Was setting up my Xmas deck with old stuff I got in the UK in the early 90's.

Thought I'd Google the sign I have, Borough Shades with a man sitting in a cellar.

Cheers,

John Comer.

Above sign showing the original, now in New Zealand.

Posted by LooseWheel on Monday, 27th April 2009 permalink

There used to be one called the "Borough Shades" in Gravesend, and the pub sign depicted ghosts rising from the graves - it was a very odd sort of place - the front part housed a delicatessen, which you had to walk through in order to get to the bar, and there was a glass ceiling in the back. The delicatessen's long gone, and the pub was taken over by Ryans, so has completely lost it's character, though the glass ceiling's still there.

Caption with above picture (28 May 2010). "Fred was one of the shining lights of the Borough, a true original."