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22 East Street
Sittingbourne
https://whatpub.com/ship
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo 1905, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Photo date 2005 from
http://www.flickr.com
by John Law. |
Above photo 2013 by Chris Whippet
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above beermat, circa 1958, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above sign 2008. |
There has been a pub on this site since around 1582, it was first
licensed in 1832 and the present Victorian building was constructed in 1899.
There is a car park at the rear, entered through the back streets. There is
a dartboard, karaoke and gaming machines. The floors are wooden, and there
is a mix of bench seating and bar stools.
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Kentish Gazette, 13 November, 1821.
DEATH.
Nov. 5, at Sittingbourne, Mrs. Bamford, wife of Mr. Bamford,
landlord of the "Ship," at that place.
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Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 5 February 1822.
DIED.
Jan. 27, Mr. Bamford, landlord of the "Ship" public-house, Sittingbourne.
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Kent Herald, 13 January 1825.
Thomas Harris, age 21, and Thomas Read, age 22, stood indicted for feloniously
stealing on the 6th of January, inst. in the parish of Sittingbourne, from the
shop of Mr. Smith, two Guernsey jackets his property.
The prisoners went together into the "Ship" public house, and Harris offered to
sell the jackets to a traveller, for 2s. each.
The Travellers suspected something was wrong, and refused to purchase them, and
the prisoners were taken into custody.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
The Court sentenced them both to be transported for seven years.
Read on leaving the bar, impudently said "Thank you Sir, by G-d I'm glad on it."
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Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 9th July 1833.
Public houses to be let, with early possession, the "Thatched House," in
the parish of Minster in the Isle of Sheppey; also the "Ship," in the
parish of Sittingbourne.
Apply at Mr. Vallance's is Brewery, Sittingbourne.
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Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 29 October 1861.
Sittingbourne Petty Sessions.
Edward Horton, a labourer, was brought up in custody, charged with
breaking a window at the "Ship Inn," Sittingbourne, belonging to Mr.
Francis Bower, on Monday, evening. Prisoner pleaded that he was drunk,
and did not know what it was about. He was ordered to pay the damage and
costs, amounting to 9s. 3d., or in default to be committed for 14 days.
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From local paper 1885
PROBATE.
Edward Parker, Late of the “Ship Inn” Sittingbourne in the County of Kent
Publican who died 3 December 1885 proved by Edward Henry Bones of the
"Prince of Wales" Sittingbourne, Publican the sole Executor. |
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From the
https://www.kentonline.co.uk By Hayley Robinson, 5 February 2010.
Landlord's pub closures warning.
Mick Page landlord of the The Ship.
The days of the traditional British pub are numbered, according to one
of Sittingbourne’s longest-serving landlords.
Mick Page, who runs the "Ship" in East Street, spoke out after Derek Lee,
landlord of the nearby "Wheatsheaf" pub was declared bankrupt at Medway
County Court last Friday.
The 67-year-old, who took over the "Ship" in 1975, blames a change in
people’s social lives for the demise of the pub trade and predicted at
least five pubs will close their doors for good in the Sittingbourne
area in the next three to four months.
He admitted his could be one of them.
Echoing fears he raised in the Sittingbourne Messenger last year, he
said: "The licensing situation in Sittingbourne has gone to pieces,
people are just not using the pubs.
"Some of it is down to cheap booze coming from the supermarkets, then
the smoking ban came into effect – although people adapted to it, but
the biggest change is people’s social lives.
"They are spending more and more time at home.
"Your old 19in TV screen is now 42in and you can hire films.
"People call their friends and say ‘come round bring a crate of beer and
a pizza’ and they sit in, there’s no need to go to the pub, it’s
completely changed.
"I can assure you in the next three to four months five pubs will shut
and the "Ship" might be one of them.
"I’m saddened by it but I understand the circumstances – it’s not a case
of someone doing something against you deliberately, it’s just that life
has changed."
Pub life is in Mr Page’s blood.
He was born at the "Rose and Crown" in West Malling in 1943 and married a
landlord’s daughter.
In 1973 he moved to the Swale area and took over the "Golden Fleece"
before taking on the "Ship."
At one time he also ran the "Halfway House" in Bobbing.
Mr Page is so synonymous with the "Ship" that people refer to it by his
surname.
"Sadly the days of the great traditional pub have finished, but at the
same time you’ve got to move on," he said. |
Still open in 2013 the pub was closed by 2017 and was seeking for
redevelopment.
LICENSEE LIST
BAMFORD Mr 1821 Jan/1822
MANGEAN John 1828+
JACKSON James 1832-39+
SMEED George 1840+
ROPER Bachelor 1847+
HEDGECOCK Henry 1851-58+ (age 25 in 1851 )
BOWER Francis 1861-62+ (also Horse trainer age 41 in 1861)
PARKER Edward 1870-3/Dec/85 dec'd (age 54 in 1881)
CONLEY George H 1899+
VAUDEPEER George Henry 1901-03+ (age 50 in 1901)
PENFOLD W 1913+
PACKER William 1918-45+
???? June & Jack 1958ish
PAGE Mick 1975-2010+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Ship.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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