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Green Street Green Road
Green Street Green
01474 702279
https://whatpub.com/ship
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above postcard, circa 1933, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo 2016. |
Above photo, kindly taken and sent by Ian Goodrick, August 2017. |
Above sign May 1994.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com
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As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will
be shown here.
Thanks for your co-operation.
I am informed that the original building was Tudor in origin, but
unfortunately burnt down, and rebuilt, dates as yet unknown.
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From the Maidstone Gazette and West Kent Courier, 23 March 1830.
Horse Stealing.
Richard Christmas, 29, labourer, for stealing a gelding, the property of
Ambrose Lettis.
This prisoner remained in gaol from the last Assizes, prosecutors name
having been laid in the indictment as "Letter" by a mistake.
Mr. Erpinanse was Counsel for the prosecution.
Ambrose Lettis lived at Frindsbury. On the 30th September he missed a
black gelding, and afterwards saw it at Mr. Okill's, at Dartford. It's
been turned out on Hoo Common.
Harriet Hayes lived at the "Ship," Green Street Green. On the morning of
the 30th, at 6 o'clock, prisoner came to the house for the black horse,
which he put up, and came again at 8 in the evening. He had altered his
dress, hat, waistcoat, and trousers.
Jon Jones, landlord of the "Ship,"
saw prisoner in the evening; he asked if a man had not left the horse
there in the morning, and said, that the man had sent him to see how it
got on. Witness called last witness, and asked her if she had seen the
man before. She said, he was the man who left the horse in the morning;
that made witness suspect he had stole it. Prisoner said, "I think the
man told me to bring the horse home at Dartford." He also said, that the
man had been at the "Eight Bells" all day. Witness then went for Okill.
Cross examined by Mr. Dunbar:- Witness did not see the man in the
morning.
William Lucas Pearce, High Constable of Dartford, proved the distance
from Hoo Common to Green Street Green, to be between 14 and 15 miles.
Death. Recorded.
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Kent Times, 5 July 1862.
KENT. Messrs. E. E. & G. CRONK.
HAVE been favoured with instructions to SELL by AUCTION, about the
end of July, the following valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTIES, in lots,
viz.,
A FREEHOLD PUBLIC-HOUSE and premises, known as the "Ship Inn" 5
acres of young thriving Fruit Plantation, together with two Cottages
and gardens adjoining, situate at Greenstreet-green, in the Parish
of Stone. It is about 3 miles from Dartford. Possession can be had
at Michaelmas next.
All those FOUR FREEHOLD HOUSES, with large gardens and outbuildings,
situate near the beautiful village of Cobham, in the pariah of
Cobham, producing a rental of £45 per annum, and is within one mile
of Sole-street station on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway.
All that desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, known as "Goddington House,"
containing 3 sitting-rooms, entrance-hall, butler’s pantry, 9
bed-rooms, dressing-room, capital cellars, and the usual offices,
stabling for 5 horses, double coachhouse, harness-room, lodge,
piggeries, pleasure ground, with greenhouse, lawn and shrubberies,
large kitchen garden, pleasantly situated in the town of Frindsbury,
in the parish of Frindsbury, within 6 minutes’ walk of the railway
stations at Strood. It is now in the occupation of Captain Savage.
Also the MANOR or reputed Manor of GODDINGTON, or otherwise Watton’s
Manor.
About 25 Acres of most valuable FREEHOLD BUILDING LAND, in the
parishes of Frindsbury and Strood, in 4 lots. This property is
beautifully situate on a slight eminence, commanding a most
picturesque view of the Three Towns, the river Medway, and
surrounding neighbourhood, and is within 5 minutes' walk of the
railway stations of the London, Chatham, and Dover, and South
Eastern Railways, and it offers a favourable opportunity for
building societies, capitalists, and others wishing for a good
investment and healthy situation.
Further particulars may be had of Messrs. Matthews, Son, and
Bartlett, Solicitors, No. 2, Arthur-street West, London, E.C., and
of Messrs. E. E. and G. Cronk, Estate Agents and Surveyors,
Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks, June 20, 1862.
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Above photo showing licensee William Edwin Turner in South Africa circa 1931.
Kindly sent by Mike Shipton. |
I am informed that of August 2018 the pub was under sale for an asking
price of £70,000. Latest news is that it closed in 2019, probably another
casualty of covid.
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https://www.kentonline.co.uk By Alex Langridge, 20 February 2023.
Plans submitted to reopen The Ship pub in Darenth and build houses.
Plans to reopen a boarded up pub, which shut four years ago, have
been drawn up – along with proposals to build houses next door. Private company Llamedos Properties has submitted the proposals to
Dartford council to partially redevelop The Ship, in Darenth.
Plans have been submitted to Dartford council about the vacant site. The boozer, in Green Street Green Road, shut in August 2019 and has
been empty ever since.
It had a main bar area which could seat up to 30 people and
additional floorspace which used to be a rear bar, staff room and
restaurant.
The first floor had a kitchen, lounge, double bedroom, office and
bathroom, and there were two double bedrooms in the roof space.
The site also had a basement which was used as storage, and seven
outbuildings.
Llamedos Properties has now submitted plans to redevelop the site
but says it will keep the ground floor of the building as a public
house, if approved.
It also wants to demolish the two extensions built on the side and
rear of the former pub and all of the outbuildings to make way for
housing.
The road leading to The Ship in Darenth.
It hopes to convert the upper floor into two one-bedroom flats and
build two five-bed houses and one three-bed bungalow, all with
basement space.
Two car parking spaces for each property, one for each flat with
another for visitors and two for the pub, have also been added into
the plans.
According to the planning documents, the applicant believes the
development is "entirely acceptable given the retention of the
community building and its re-use at the ground floor."
It added: "It also proposes a better use of the upper floors and
offers a more viable alternative...by comparison to the re-use of
the vast poorly designed extensions and outbuildings that currently
exist.
"It is considered that the benefits of partially re-developing this
site vastly outweigh the dis-benefits, of which the applicant says
there are none."
The Dartford-based company has applied for "an infill" development
as it hopes to make better use of the land.
The Ship has been shut since 2019.
If approved, it intends to reopen the pub on the ground floor with a
new terrace area to serve drinks, light snacks and sandwiches.
It will also allow the space to be hired out to the community but
not for entertainment purposes.
A decision is expected on the planning application by Tuesday, March
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LICENSEE LIST
JONES John 1830+
LUDLOW John 1858+
TREADWELL John 1862+
GARDNER/GARDINER Thomas 1874-76+
LAWRENCE George 1881-82+ (age 48 in 1841 )
WALLACE Frederick 1891+
TONG Josiah 1903+
REYNOLDS George Spencer 1913-18+
ELLIS Edwin William 1922-30+
TURNER Harry 1934-38+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/ShipInn.shtml
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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