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Sort file:- Gravesend, July, 2024.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 09 July, 2024.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Woodlands Hotel

Closed 5 July 2024

Wrotham Road

Gravesend

01474 533556

http://www.beefeater.co.uk/Woodlands-Gravesend.html

https://whatpub.com/woodlands

Woodlands Hotel

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

Above photo 2008 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.

Woodlands 2012

Above photo 1st September 2012.

Photo from http://www.flickr.com by emdjt42.

Woodlands 2013

Above photo 2013.

Woodlands sign 1992

Above sign December 1992.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

 

This was originally built as a private home for George Wood the brewer in 1896 it became a hotel in the late 1930s.

For the last several decades it has been a pub and restaurant and I am informed (2016) it is a beefeater restaurant.

 

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 5 March 1881.

Gravesend. The Murder.

At the Town Hall, on Friday, before the Mayor (Mr. Martin) and other Magistrates. Albert Moore, age 22, a soldier in the 52nd Regiment stationed at Chatham, was brought up on remand charged with wilful murder of Mary Ann Marsh, age 65, who was found murdered on the evening, at the "Woodlands," Gravesend, where she had been acting as housekeeper to Captain Scrivens, 52nd Regiment.

Last week the prisoner was remanded in order to procure the attendance of Captain Scrivens, who could give some information as to whether any property had been stolen from the "Woodlands."

Captain Scrivens now said he went to the house on the previous day for the first time since the murder. He did not miss anything from the house. When he removed from the "Woodlands," he left a little plate and a few small trinkets, all of which were quite safe. Prisoner would know what was left in the house.

Dr. Richmond, recalled, said there was no appearance of a violent struggle having taken place. Deceased was covered with blood and there were extensive bruises on the head and left side of the face. The bruise on the left side of the face might have been caused by a blow from a blunt instrument, such as a pair of tongs or a fist. There was no doubt but that blows had been inflicted on deceased before her throat was cut.

This being the whole of the evidence, the prisoner, after being duly cautioned, reserved his defence, and was fully committed for trial at the next assizes, on the capital charge.

 

Informed this closed as a public house on the 5th July 2024, but remained open as a Premier Inn, in which you have to be a resident in order to get a drink.

 

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