213 Station Road

Rainham

01634 232178

https://www.macklandarms.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/mackland-arms

Above photo, 1936, kindly supplied by Rory Kehoe. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Parker, licensees, looking out from the left-hand window.

Above photo 2006 by Penny Mayes Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo, 2015, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Above photo, August 2021, kindly taken and sent by Maggie Francis.

Above photo, August 2021, kindly taken and sent by Maggie Francis.

Above sign left, June 1992, sign right, 2010. Thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above sign left 2019, sign right, 2020, kindly taken and sent by Roger Pester.

Outside the Mackland Arms in 1982 The “Rocket” participating in the annual Station Road charity Bed race. Themed carts would race from the "White Horse" down to the "Angel" with a halfway break at the Mackland Arms. Photo copyright Trish Vinten & Margaret Daniels www.Rainham-history.co.uk

This premises provided rooms for the Sick and Benefit Society, which was probably an early form of insurance for those who could not work due to illness or to help a wife and family where a husband had died or was unable to work.

LICENSEE LIST

HOWLAND Newman 1871-91+ (age 64 in 1891)

WHITNELL Thomas 1895-1912+ (age 39 in 1901)

PARKER Joseph 1913-35+

GILLMAN Joseph E 1937-39+

KIRKWOOD James 1963-74+

WARD Dave & Janet 1983+

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Census

From the Post Office Directory 1874

Mannings & Co Directory 1877

From the Post Office Directory 1878

From the Kelly's Directory 1882

From the Kelly's Directory 1887

From the Kelly's Directory 1891

From the Kelly's Directory 1895

From the Kelly's Directory 1899

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

From the Kelly's Directory 1905

From the Kelly's Directory 1907

From the Sittingbourne District Parrett's Directory 1908

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1912/13

From the Kelly's Directory 1913

From the Kelly's Directory 1918

From the Kelly's Directory 1922

From the Kelly's Directory 1924

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1935

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1948

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1951

From the Kelly's Directory 1953

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1955

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1957

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1963

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1972

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1973

From the Medway Kelly's Directory 1974