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106 Palmerstone Road
Chatham
https://whatpub.com/ordinary-fellow
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo showing probably an outing, circa 1938. |
Above photo, date unknown, showing locals Pat & Roy Harris at table, and
Frank Brunt back row, third from right. |
Above Whitbread card, 1973 and series unknown. |
Above sign, June 1995.
Thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
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Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 8 March 1937.
LINK WITH LATE KING.
"THE ORDINARY FELLOW" AS NAME FOR PUBLIC-HOUSE.
A new licensed house at Palmerston Road, Chatham, transferred from
the "Brown Jug" last year, is to be named the "Ordinary Fellow" as a link
with the reign of King George V.
At the Licensing Sessions at Chatham to-day Mr. T. Brachner, solicitor,
announced that the new premises were now complete and he asked
permission to open on March 17.
Mr. Bracher added that it was proposed to change the name of the "Brown
Jug."
The new premises had been built during the last month of the reign of
King George V and the brewers had thought of something appropriate to his
last days.
In a broadcast the Archbishop of Canterbury had referred to an occasion
on which King George had described himself "just an ordinary fellow,"
and the brewers suggested that the name of the new house should be the
"Ordinary Fellow."
The magistrates agreed.
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Advert published 20 March 1937.
Do you know this one?
The last drink has been served at "The Brown Jug" in Whittaker Street.
Down will come the inn and up will go the Council's new houses, the site
having been presented for this purpose by Messrs. Fredk. Leney & Sons
Ltd. an associated company of Whitbread & Co, Ltd.
But you will find good fellowship and hospitality at a fine new inn in
Palmerston Road "THE ORDINARY FELLOW" under the same ownership. It has
been given this name as a link with the reign of King George V, who one
day during the celebrations for his Silver Jubilee, referred to himself
as "just an ordinary fellow."
The new house is fully licensed, Whitbread's bottled beers being a
special attraction. You will enjoy your drink in real comfort at "THE
ORDINARY FELLOW." Come round and see!
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The "Ordinary Fellow" recalls George V's amazement at his subjects'
passionate display of loyalty during the Jubilee celebrations of 1935: ‘For
after all, I am but an ordinary fellow,' was his comment.
The pub was built in exactly the same shape as the "Canopus."
Michael Mirams informs me that the pub closed in 2009 and is now
residential.
LICENSEE LIST
PHILO G M 1938+
SNAPE John 1955+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/OrdinaryFellows.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/ordinaryfellow.html
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