Above photo, circa 1962. At the time it was called the "Olde Kynges Heade." Photo kindly supplied by Tony Smith.

Above photo circa 2017 by Darkstar.

From an email received 17 July 2017.

Nicholas Smith died in Chatham in December 1842 and his will can be found at the National Archives. His daughter Charlotte married Thomas Samuel Crockford who was landlord of the "Cobham Inn" on Strood High Street in the 1860s and 1870s and also the "Victory Tavern" on Strood High Street in the 1841 census.

Nicholas's granddaughter Mary Crockford married James Freeman Randall who was landlord of the "Crown and Anchor" in Sheerness in the early 1870s, the "Sabbarton Arms" in Poplar (Middlesex) in the mid 1870s and the "Bull" in Cross Street Woolwich in the 1880s.

Robert Randall.