DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1851-

Tally Ho

Closed ????

 

Toys Hill

Tally Ho 1910

Above postcard, 1910. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Tally Ho

Above photo, date unknown.

Tally Ho 1938

Above photo, circa 1938. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Former Tally Ho 2019

Above photo, 2019, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

 

The 1881 census describes this as a Beer House, and there appeared to be three families living under its roof. The Licensee William Leigh with his wife, 5 children, a sister-in-law and a lodger. William Crude age 66, a labourer, with his wife, two sons, a daughter and grandson. Henery Stone,as 33 farm labourer, his wife, five children and a boarder. Making 23 in all.

 

Kent & Sussex Courier 15 September 1933.

MR. A BELLINGHAM.

Fellow members of the British Legion acted as bearers at the funeral of Mr. Albert Bellingham, of the "Tally Ho Inn," Toyes-Hill, Brasted. He was 51 years of age and was well known in Tunbridge Wells, where he formerly lived.

 

From the Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, 12 August 1938.

IN THE PETTY SESSIONAL OF SEVENOAKS.

To all whom it may concern.

I. FRANK WESTON, now residing at the "Tally Ho," Toys Hill, Brasted, in the Petty Sessional Division of Sevenoaks in the County of Kent. Beer Retailer, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that it is my intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the said Division to be holden at The Court Room at The Police Station, Sevenoaks aforesaid, on Friday, the Eleventh day of February next, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon, for the grant, to me of a Justices’ Licence authorising me to apply for and hold an Excise Licence to sell by retail the following liquors, viz.: Any intoxicating liquor for consumption either on or off the premises situate at Toys Hill, Brasted aforesaid and known by the sign of the "Tally Ho!" and of which premises Messrs. Bushell Watkins & Smith Limited, whose registered office is situate at The Black Eagle Brewery, Westerham, in the said Countv of Kent, are the Owners and of which I am the Lessee. GIVEN under my hand this Thirtieth day of December. One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.

FRANK WESTON.

The "Tally Ho," Toys Hill. Brasted.

 

The Closed Pubs Project says this has closed but does not say when. It is now (2020) a private house.

 

LICENSEE LIST

LEIGH Thomas 1851+ (also wood dealer age 48 in 1851Census)

HEATH Elvey 1871-Nov/78 Sevenoaks Chronicle

LEIGH William Thomas Next pub licensee had Dec/1878-May/86 (age 34 in 1881Census)

POCOCK Thomas May/1886+ Sevenoaks Chronicle

MARCHANT Henry Nov/1887-June/1933 dec'd (also agricultural labourer age 55 in 1911Census) Sevenoaks Chronicle

BELLINGHAM Albert to Sept/1933 dec'd

COSGROVE F 1938+

WESTON Frank Aug/1938+

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There is a possibility that Henry Marchant was licensee the "Fox and Hound" in 1901, that he moved there and then back again.

 

Sevenoaks ChronicleSevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser

CensusCensus

 

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