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4 Blean Hill
Blean
01227 450266
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo circa 2013. |
 
Above photo left, March 1975. Sign right July 1991.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
Above sign 2013. |
Above photo from Rory Kehoe, showing the old sign still on the building
in 2021. |
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Kentish Gazette - Saturday 15 November 1783.
To be Sold by Auction, By Order of the Guardians of the Poor of the City of
Canterbury, at the Workhouse in the said City, On Monday next, the 17th Day
of November instant, At Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, THE UNDERWOOD, of
four Acres, two Roods, and thirty-one Perches of Woodland, lying and being
in the Parish of St. Cosmus and Damian, in the Blean, in the County of Kent.
Enquire for John Marsh, at the "Hare and Hounds," Blean, who will shew the
said Woodland.
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Kentish Chronicles, 1 December, 1795.
Death.
Thursday died Mrs. Dove, at the "Hare and Hounds" public house, in
the parish of Blean, age 61.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 21 March 1848.
Dove.—
March 14, at the "Hare and Hounds,", Blean, near Canterbury, Mrs. Dove.
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Kentish Gazette, 17 September 1850.
DEATH.
Dove:— Sept 4, at Blean, near Canterbury, Mr. William Dove, aged 82, upwards
of 50 years landlord of the "Hare and Hounds" of that place.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 16 July, 1864.
SHORT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND FALSE SCALES.
A number of cases of short weights and measures and defective scales were
reported to the Court by Mr. Mount, inspector of weights and measures for
the Home Division. After hearing the circumstances the magistrates convicted
and imposed fines as follows:—
Zachariah Wellard, landlord of the “Hare and Hounds,” Blean, for two
deficient measures purporting to be pints, fined 2 s. 6d. and costs.
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Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 8 February 1947.
Whitstable Magistrates Miss Licensing Meeting.
CAR SKIDS OFF ROAD INTO FIELD.
A skid on the slippery road near the "Hare and Hounds" on Monday prevented
two Whitstable J.Ps., Mr. Arthur Collar and Mr. F. S. Gann, from taking
their place on the Bench at St. Augustine's annual licensing meeting held at
Canterbury that morning.
The car in which they were travelling skidded sideways while descending the
hill towards Blean bottom and crashed through a hedge into a field adjoining
the road before coming to rest.
Fortunately, neither Mr. Collar nor Mr. Gann was injured and the car was
almost undamaged.
With the help of men from a nearby farm the car was soon back on the road
but the incident delayed the magistrates to such an extent that they were
unable to reach Canterbury in time for the meeting.
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I have been informed that the pub changed name to the "Blean
Tavern" in the summer of 2015.
LICENSEE LIST
MARSH John 1783+
DOVE ???? 1795+
DOVE William 1841-4/Sept/50 dec'd (age 70 in 1841 )
DOVE Sarah 1851 (age 25 in 1851)
WELLARD G 1858+
WELLARD Zachariah 1861-64+ (age 46 in 1861)
BISHOP Abraham 1871-74+ (age 24 in 1871)
Uninhabited 1881+
HAMMOND James 1882+
GILLIS John (Publican age 70 in 1891)
TOSLAND Thomas Henry 1891+
ATMORE George 1901-03+ (age 49 in 1901)
FAGG John 1913+
JONES Albert Stephen to Jan/1916
REYNOLDS Clara Rose Mrs Jan/1916-18+
HARTRIDGE Clara Rose Mrs 1922+
WOOLLETT Walter 1930+
FOLDS George 1938+
BROOKES Ron 1980s-90s (partner ran "Sovereign,"
Whitstable.)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/HareHounds.shtml
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
Whitstable Times
and Herne Bay Herald
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