Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 25 September 1855.

At the petty sessions on Monday, before the Rev. Dr. Poore and the Rev. G. B. Moore, licences of several innkeeper's in the district of Sittingbourne were renewed.

Sarah Anderson, of the "Halfway House" beer shop, Bobbing, applied for a licence to sell excisable liquors by retail, but was refused. Similar applications were made by Edwin Shrubsole, J. M. Chambers, and Charles Hammond, of Sheerness, and refused.

South Eastern Gazette 02 September 1862.

BOBBING FIRE.

On Thursday afternoon a hay stack to a field near the "Halfway House," belonging to Mr. Gouge, of Pigeon Farm, was discovered to be on fire. Police-constable Dewstone, who was soon on the spot, found the fire to have been caused by three little boys, named George Long, Richard Seager, and Alfred Fuller, all about five or six years of age, who were at play in the field, when they found some Lucifer matches in the hedge, probably placed there by harvesters, with which they lit a fire in the vicinity of the stack. The eldest boy (Long) admitted that he afterwards made a hole in the stock and inserted some fire, and the whole stack was very speedily in a blaze. The stack, which was entirely consumed, was worth about £50, and was insured.