SAMUEL PEPYS Pub of Gillingham

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Gillingham, April, 2021.

Page Updated:- Monday, 26 April, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1943-

(Name from)

Samuel Pepys

Closed 1979

144 High Street

Gillingham

Above photo 1960s.

Above photo date 2011, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

Awaiting reverse picture of Whitbread sign.

Above aluminium card issued 1950. Sign series 2 number 7.

Originally called the "New Inn" and situated on the corner of the High Street and King Street, the pub opened before 1870 when it was known as 'The New Inn and York Tavern'.

The pub closed in 1979.

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

From an email received 22 April 2021.

Hello,

My father John Robert McKeown, a retired army officer was the Landlord of the Pepys in the early 50s.

On retiring from the army he took the tenancy of the "Angel," Lower Rainham about 1949/50 and moved to the Pepys about 1952/3 with my mother Hilda Margaret McKeown.

I was in the army at the time and got married from the Pepys on 17th March 1954.

On leaving the army in 1955, my wife Patricia and I moved into the Pepys and worked there full time.

My mother died in the Pepys on 18th May 1956.

My daughter Pauline was born in the Pepys on the 29th June 1958.

My wife and I Ieft the Pepys about 1959. I not sure when my father left but it was about the same time. Maybe 1960. I am now 87.

Hope this information is of interest to you

Regards,

Colin F McKeown.

LICENSEE LIST

McKEOWN John Robert 1953-60

CLARKSON Ken 1963+

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

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