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139 Ashford Road
Bearsted
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo, date unknown with licensee outside. |
Above photo, circa 1960s. |
Above Google image, March 2009. |
Above sign 1964. |
 
Above sign left, December 1975. Sign right, June 1995.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com.
Above sign 2010. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above map 1866. Extreme right building is the "Bower
Inn." |
Above map 1897. |
Above map 1908. |
Also referred to in the census of 1891 and 1901 as simply
"Yeoman Inn."
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Canterbury Weekly, 7 January, 1837.
Highway Robbery.
On Monday evening 26th ult. Knight, coachman to B. D. Dupps, of
Hollingbourne House, who had been to Maidstone for medicine, was on
his return between 8 and 9 o'clock with the same and some articles
of grocery, he had purchased, carrying a Lantern, and accompanied by
a powerful dog, when a little beyond the "Kentish Yeoman," near
Bearsted, he was stopped by man in a short gabardine who demanded his
money. Night replied that he was only a servant, and that he had
been to fetch medicine. The man then knocked him down, on which
Knight's dog instantly seized the fellow by the leg, who fell, and
on his rising, Knight returned the compliment. Another man then came
up and knocked Knight down, and immediately after a third made an
appearance. Finding it useless to resist Knight allowed them to
rifle his pockets, from which they took about 5 shillings and
sixpence, and also some tea and sugar. They also took the bottle of
medicine, and having examined it by the lights of his lantern, they
threw it at his head. It fell on the ground without breaking, and he
picked it up, and proceeded on his way home, though not before he
had experienced some difficulty inducing the dog, to leave the man
he had seized.
Maidstone journal.
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From an unknown publication, date after 1960. For over 50 years
good Kent ale has been served by the Carr family at the “Kentish
Yeoman.” Bearsted.
And as far back as the 60’s a member of the family was licensee.
Changes in a Century.
It is a house that has seen many changes since tt was built
around a century ago.
Then a modest little place with a single bar. It has been altered to
a substantial, comfortable house, with three bars.
Back in the days when the Carr family first took the licence it was
open from six in the morning till ten at night. And if you did not
open sharp on six, people with a strong early morning thirst wanted
to know why.
 There were only a few farmhouses in the vicinity of the Yeoman in
those days. But they were hop farms, and in the summer the
hop-pickers swarmed about the place.
WHEN WINDOWS WERE SHUTTERED.
There were shutters over the windows. And they were needed. The
hop-pickers had many a fight outside, and the windows had to be
protected till a top-hatted policeman with a heavy stick arrived to
settle the dispute.
The late Mr. Allane Carr took over the house in 1877 and held the
licence till 1912. His wife carried on for 20 years, and the licence
went to the late Mr. Albert Thomas Carr, whose widow, Mrs. Alice
Jane Carr is the present licensee. Her son, Mr. Allane Carr, whose
photograph appears, is now acting landlord. |
LICENSEE LIST
STOKES Michael 1840+
SMART Henry 1858-Nov/70
(age 54 in 1861 ) 
HICKS Stephen Nov/1870-81+ (age 65 in 1881)
PETERS John 1891+ (age 32 in 1891)
CARR Allane Gus 1877-1912 (age 62 in 1901)
CARR Mrs (widow) 1812-32
CARR Albert Thomas 1932-38+
CARR Alice Jane 1960s+
CARR Allane 1960s+
HUNTLEY P 1988+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/KentishYeoman.shtml
Census
Maidstone
Telegraph
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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