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1 High Street
Queenborough
01795 662463
https://whatpub.com/old-house-at-home
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 1987, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo 1997. |
Above photo 2013 by Nigel Cox
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above photo 2023, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above card 1970. |
 
Above sign left , April 1991. Sign right, 2017 by June Etherington.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
The original pub was operating in the mid 19th century.
The "Old House at Home" public house was rebuilt in 1915 by brewers
Messrs Budden and Biggs to serve soldiers and retained workers who were
barred from enlistment.
Ind Coope & Co Ltd purchased the pub from Budden & Biggs Brewery Ltd by
conveyance and assignment dated 23 March 1931. The pub held a full license.
Rory Kehoe suggests that this was probably later owned by Green King
before being sold of and today (2024) operating as a Free House.
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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.
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LICENSEE LIST
FROST John 1855-61+ (age 54 in 1861 )
GRIFFIN Frederick 1871-1911+ (age 50 in 1891)
MASON George E 1934-39+ (age 61 in 1938)
RUTHVEN Bill & Dorothy 1970+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/OldHouseatHome.shtml
Census
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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