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Sort file:- Chatham, April, 2025.

Page Updated:- Monday, 07 April, 2025.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1872-

 Good Intent

Closed mid 1990s

50 New Road / Gibraltar Place 1858

Chatham

Good Intent 1986

Above photo, 1986.
Good Intent 1988

Above photo, 1988.
Good Intent bar 1988

Above photo 1988.
Good Intent inside 1988

Above photo, 1988. At the time was an Irish Themed pub.

Good Intent 2017

Above photo circa 2017, by Andy Johnson.
 

 

Also listed as being at Gibraltar Terrace.

The Licensing Records of 1872 stated the premises was operating under a Beer License and was owned by James Law Cuthbertson of new Road, Rochester.

I am informed that up to at least 1970 this was a beer house only.

Closed some time in the mid 1990s and now (2017) operating as an Indian restaurant.

 

From an email received, 19 April, 2017.

The "Good Intent," New Road, Chatham. This pub had been run by Tony Flannery, when upon his demise, his wife took over the licence. Due to various licence infringements, it closed and (I cannot remember the dates - probably 86/87 and now living in Thailand, paperwork is no longer at hand), after a very lengthy period of closure, at the request of Courage's, I applied for a licence. The Police did not want it re-opened, but I successfully fought off objections and after much remedial work got it up and running. Unfortunately, after two failed managers, I was forced to surrender the tenancy.

I was succeeded by an Irishman (name forgotten), who had been running a pub in Hoxton Market. It did not last long, closed again and is now an Indian restaurant.

 

LICENSEE LIST

PHILLIPS George 1858+

PEARSON Archibald Brown 1872+ Licensing Records 1872

MAYGER Charles 1881+ (age 36 in 1881Census)

DENNEY F Mrs 1882+

NEATE William H Y 1891+ (age 35 in 1891Census)

FOSTER William 1913+

LAMIE William T A 1930+

HOLLAND Henry Samuel 1938+

BEAVIS Harry & "Toots" (Thelma) 1965-70

FLANNERY Tony to 1987

FLANNERY Mrs (widow) 1987-88

Last pub licensee had MAGUIRE Kevin 1988+

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