Above postcard date unknown, with kind permission from Eric Hartland.

Above postcard, circa 1900, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. Showing the original pub, rebuilt in 1915, and the "Castle Inn" a few doors away.

Above postcard, circa 1902, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. In the livery of the alliterative Budden & Biggs' Brewery, whose Body-Building Beverages were brewed at the Steam Brewery in Strood, until being taken over and closed by Ind, Coope in 1931. The "Castle Inn" is also in shot, a couple of doors down from the Old House at Home

Above photo, circa 1900, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Above photo, circa 1950.

Above postcard, 1950. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Also showing the "Castle" and "Flying Dutchman."

Above photo 1997.

Above photo 2013 by Nigel Cox Creative Commons Licence.

Above card 1970.

Above sign left , April 1991. Sign right, 2017 by June Etherington.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Hull Daily Mail 31 January 1949.

TRAGEDY RECALLED.

Recently, in the "look-back" of 50 years ago, I drew attention to the tragedy at the "Full Measure" public-house, Wilmington, in which the licensee Mrs Houldershaw and her daughter perished, while three children jumped from a bedroom window.

Of those three, Bert, who was on holiday from Thorne Grammar School, died from burns and shock two days later.

Mr. Sydney Houldershaw, now of the "Old House at Home," Queenborough, Kent writes me that he and his sister Blanch were the other two, and they were both severely burnt and still carry the scars. He was 11 and she was a few years older and the events stand out very vividly in their memories.

SAVED THEIR LIVES.

A few months later, he went to live with his mother's brother, since dead, and has been on the Isle of Sheppy ever since. His sister, now retired, is living within two miles of him, after 32 years in employment in London.

Their friend, Miss F. Morfitt, of 136, James Reckitt-ave., who sent them the Hull Daily Mail containing the "look-back," helped to get them out on that night, and was largely instrumental in saving both their lives.