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Haste Hill
Boughton Monchelsea
Above photo, date unknown, kindly supplied by Ray Newman. |
Above Google image 2018. |
The pub was apparently called the "Royal Oak" in 1918.
The building is still standing today. (2018)
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Maidstone Telegraph, Saturday 10 September 1870.
The "Oak" Boughton Monchelsea.
On the application of the landlord of this house Superintendent Ovenden
complained that
on Whit Monday it was the custom to hold a club feast in a large booth
erected near. It
was also the custom for a number of person's to congregate in this house
on the Sunday
evening previous. Knowing this he called upon the wife of the applicant
and cautioned her
against this saying he thought it was very irregular. No notice was
taken of this however,
and on the Sunday evening he went to the place and found about 150
persons collected in
the booth drinking, and a string band playing sacred music. The Bench
cautioned the
applicant, and told him although they had no evidence to prove that any
evil have resulted
from the band being there yet they had it in their power to decide
whether he was a fit
and proper person to have charge of the house, and if this occurred
again they might take
this view of the case.
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From the Kent and Sussex Courier 20 June, 1873. Price 1d.
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA.
Sale of Landed Property. On Thursday last, at the
"Star Hotel," Maidstone, Mr. D. R. Charlton offered for public
competition the Vintens, consisting of 15A 1R. 29P.; a malt-house, let
at £20 per annum; a family residence, called Coombe Garden, containing
eight rooms, servants' offices, &c.; the Brook Farm, containing 23A. 1R.
7P. of hop, arable, and meadow land; a piece of woodland, containing 1R.
14P.; a cottage and 2R. 32P. of garden ground; a cottage and 3R. 4P. of
garden ground; and the "Oak" public house, Boughton Green, with
wheelwright's workshop and premises. The whole of the above property was
sold in one lot, for the sum of £7,500. |
LICENSEE LIST
BOLTON Mary A Mrs 1881-91 (widow age 54 in 1881 )
BOLTON Henry Arthur 1891-1903+ (age 29 in 1891)
SMITH Thomas Henry 1913+
BOWLES Percy 1918+
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Census
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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