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30 High Street
Rolvenden
01580 241269
http://www.starrolvenden.co.uk/
https://whatpub.com/star
Above photo, 1960, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
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From Barclay, Perkin's Anchor magazine. Vol. XIV, No.6, June 1934.
Four customers of the "Star Inn," Rolvenden, Kent, a Style & Winch
house, whose combined ages total 300 years. Living witness to the fact
that "Beer is Best!" Left to right: Messrs. King, Pallett, Butler and
Nash. Sadly, the dog didn't get a name check!
Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo kindly sent by Erik Hartland, February 2015. |
 
Above signleft, March 1987, sign right, 2015.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
Above photo, 2016. |
As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will
be shown here.
Thanks for your co-operation.
The name of the "Star" was changed around the 1876 period when it
operated for a short time as the "Edgar
Wiltshire" and then after that the "Lemon
Tree" before reverting again to the "Star."
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From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 23 March 1872.
ASHFORD. SALE OF PROPERTY.
A sale by auction took place at the "Saracen’s Head Hotel," on Tuesday,
conducted by Mr. Alfred Thomas. There was a large attendance. The
property is situated in the town and neighbourhood of Tenterden, and
consisted of 14 lots.
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Lot 13, the "Star" beerhouse, at
Rolvenden, was bought by Mr. Chapman for £275.
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Sussex agricultural Express, Saturday 8th November, 1890.
Transfer of licences.
Mr. James Munn Mace applied for and obtained a licence transfer of
the "Star" Beerhouse, at Rolvenden, from the owners of the house to
Thomas Judge.
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Thanet Advertiser, Tuesday 16 August 1949.
BOY INJURED.
A four-year-old boy was taken to Ramsgate General Hospital with a broken
thigh and other injuries on
Sunday after he had been involved in a street accident in Dumpton-lane.
The child, Brian Haynes, of 3 Sydney-terrace, West Dumpton-lane, was
apparently watching trains pass
under the West Dumpton railway bridge in company with another little
boy.
He suddenly darted across the road and ran into a car being driven by
Mr. George Frederick Goodacre, of
the "Star Inn," Rolvenden, Kent.
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Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 22 September 1961.
Rolvenden.
Farewell individual gifts and one combined gift of a crystal dressing
set were given to Mrs. D. M Goodacre on
Saturday, who is retiring from the "Star Inn," Rolvenden after 17 years.
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LICENSEE LIST
JUDGE Thomas Nov/1890+
GOODACRE D M Mrs 1944-61
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