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The Street
Benenden
01580 240054
https://www.thebullatbenenden.co.uk/
https://whatpub.com/bull
Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
Above postcard, circa 1909, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, date unknown. Advertising "Residential and Commercial.
Good Accommodation. Catering of Every Description. Horses, Carriages and
Motors for Hire. Telephone 5. Proprietor W. G. Cockell. |
Above photo circa 1920. |
Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Steve Glover. |
Above photo, circa 1950, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, circa 1953, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. As a Style &
Winch tied house. |
Above postcard circa 1954, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo showing the comics that used to be held in the toilets in
2012, Jack Goodhew who kindly sent this photo says he thinks they were
stolen in 2013. |
The pub was part of the Earl of Cranbrook's estate until it became a
licensed house after the Great War. It overlooks the famous Benenden cricket
ground, where a century ago two professional cricketers took on the local
club and beat them soundly.
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Kentish Gazette, 5 September 1820.
A few days since an Inquest was held at the "Bull Inn," Benenden,
before James Ottaway, esq. Coroner, on view of the
body of Ann Goodwin, a poor woman nearly 60 years of age, residing
in that parish, and who had drowned herself in a
well at the back of the house. It appeared that the bad conduct of
one of her sons, who had been recently
apprehended on a charge of felony, and afterwards cut his own
throat, produced such an effect on the mother, as to
have broken her heart and distracted her undemanding at the same
moment.
The Jury returned a verdict of Insanity.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 1 May 1838.
DEATH.
April 19, at Benenden, after a short illness, Mr. S. Santer, Inn
keeper, aged 62.
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| South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 8 June 1841.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS
To be heard at Maidstone, in the county of Kent,
on the 30th day of June, 1841, at the hour of ten in the forenoon
precisely.
SAM SANTER.
Sued and committed as Samuel Santer, late of Benenden, near
Cranbrook, in the county of Kent, assistant to Mrs. Mary Santer, of
Benenden aforesaid, licensed victualler and farmer.
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Southeastern Gazette, 15 February 1853.
Benenden. Suicide by Poison.
An inquest was holden at the "Bull Inn", on Tuesday last, before W.
T. Neve, Esq., deputy-coroner, on the body of Ann Godfrey, single
woman. It appeared that she had been guilty of imprudent conduct
with a young man named Daniel Else, who lodged with her father, and
in order to conceal her disgrace had procured, through him, some
poisonous vegetable drugs, which she took and became seriously ill.
A miscarriage ensued, and she afterwards complained of her back, and
acknowledged that she had taken "rank poison," brought to her by
Else.
She lingered for about a fortnight afterwards. The evidence given
disclosed a wretched state of morality among the household of the
young woman's parents. In the cottage resided her father and mother,
two brothers, aged 13 and 8, the deceased and her sister, and Daniel
Else, who, Hannah Godfrey deposed, usually slept with her sister
Ann.
The jury returned a verdict of "Poisoned herself."
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LICENSEE LIST
NOAKES James to 1727 dec'd
NOAKES Henry (son) to May/1742 dec'd
SANTER Samuel 1828-May/38 dec'd aged 62
SANTER Mary 1840-41+ (also farmer age 65 in 1841 )
THOMPSON George 1851-61+ (also farmer of 20 acres)
PARKS Thomas 1871+ (age 57 in 1871)
BUCKETT Charles 1881-1913+ (also farmer age 47 in 1891)
BUCKETT Herbert W to Dec/1916 dec'd
BUCKETT Kate Dec/1916-Oct/19+
COOPER Samuel Oct/1919+
COCKELL W G ????
HAYWARD Alfred 1934+
WHITMAN Sidney 1938+
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From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
Kent
and Sussex Courier
Census
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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