Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Peter Moynihan.

Above photo, showing the "Oddfellows Arms" on the left and the "Halfway House" on the right, date unknown, kindly sent by Patrick O'Grady.

Above photo showing the above blown up.

Above image from Google, July 2009.

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, 30 August, 1831.

TO LET WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

The "Odd Fellows Arms," half way to Minster in the Isle of Sheppey, desirably situated in the thoroughfare from the King's ferry to Minster and Sheerness coming in about £100., to be taken by appraisement.

For particulars apply (if by letter, post-paid) to Mr. Rouse, Occupier; or to Mr. James Attwater, Appraiser, Mile Town, Sheerness.

From an email received 21 October 2015.

Dear Paul,

The only information I have about Edward Clifford has been gleaned from other census returns and I know from the next census in 1851 that he was working as a wheelwright in High Street, Minster. By 1861 he was in Streatham with his wife and children, still working as a wheelwright, also in 1871 and 1881. It seems the change of occupation suited him. He died in Streatham in 1893, aged 81.

Lesley Hopkins.