SHIP ON SHORE Pub of Sheerness

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sheerness, April, 2023.

Page Updated:- Friday, 14 April, 2023.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1871-

Ship on Shore

Open 2020+

Cheyney Rock / 155 Marine Parade

Sheerness

01795 662880

https://whatpub.com/ship-on-shore

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown. By kind permission of Trevor Edwards.

Above postcard, 1907.

Above postcard, circa 1911, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard, 1913. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Not sure who Teint & Son are, and I believe this is an error from the painter and it should read Flint & Son.

Above postcard, circa 1920, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, date circa 1922, further details can be found from this link:-

http://www.pbase.com/luckytrev/shiponshore

Above postcard showing the Grotto. Date unknown.

Above postcard, circa 1929, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo 1987.

Above sign, April 1991.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above Whitbread card, 1973 and series unknown.

Above photo, 2000s. By kind permission of Trevor Edwards.

There is a strange tale connected with the "Ship on Shore", which was once a coastguard station before a sea-wall was built in front of the house. The oldest surviving pub in town, it was the scene of a shipwreck in 1848, when a small vessel foundered and sank offshore. The landlord waded out to the wreck and claimed the cargo which, it turned out, consisted of barrels of cement. Nothing daunted, mine host built himself a rustic grotto next to the pub, which drew curious visitors (and still does), and is a protected building.

From https://www.understanding-cement.com/history.html accessed 19 March 2019.

A ship carrying barrels of Aspdin's cement sank off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England, and the barrels of set cement, minus the wooden staves, were later incorporated into a pub in Sheerness and are still there now. Those who wish can sup a pint and contemplate cement history.

I have been informed by Michael Cox that Joe Park was the brother in-law to Les Jarrett of the "True Briton." His sister, Alice, being the link. He had a brother, too. Ted Park. Ted and his wife Lil ran the "Seaview Hotel" and helped foster the "beat boom" of the sixties by letting their function room to a local band "The Rebounds".

Les Jarret also owned the "Sea Horse" in Leysdown and founded the Playa Club on the Leas at Minster IoS. That became the "Playa" pub eventually.

LICENSEE LIST

CLARKE Wilson 1871+ (age 52 in 1871)

CLARKE William 1874+

HILLS William John 1881-1918+ (also registered chemist & druggist age 37 in 1881)

DRAY Thomas 1930-39+ (age 55 in 1939)

PARK Joe 1960s

https://pubwiki.co.uk/ShiponShore.shtml

Census

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-

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