Commonside

Keston

01689 856338

http://greyhoundkeston.co.uk/

https://www.whatpub.com/greyhound

Above postcard 1905, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard, circa 1922. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, 1937.

Above postcard 1952, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above sign left, June 1993 sign right 2020. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above Google image, April 2018.

Originally just operating with a beer licence and possibly built late 1840s by William Dunnell beer retailer and wood broker, it finally received it's full licence in the 1930s.

Probate: John Gurr of the Greyhound Beerhouse, Keston, Kent died 10 January 1914, to Harriet Gurr, Widow, Effects £301.

A new pub was built just behind the old in the 1930s and the old one demolished. This new one received a direct hit in the blitz of 1940, fortunately out of hours, and was almost destroyed, the "New Inn" at Hayes suffering a similar fate.

Style and Winch was a Maidstone based brewer who had a lot of pubs in the Bromley area. Taken over by Barclay, Perkins & Co. in 1929, The "Greyhound" was a Courage house for many years but the pub was bought by Shepherd Neame from Enterprise Inns at the end of June 2016.

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

Thanks for your co-operation.

LICENSEE LIST

DUNMALL William 1851-88 dec'd

DUNMALL Jim (son) 1891+ (age 57 in 1891)

GURR John 1901-10/Jan/1914 dec'd (age 51 in 1901)

HOLLAND Henry Walter 1938+

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