Chiddingstone

Above photo, circa 1909, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Showing the Station during its "Prohibition" period, when the strongest drink on offer was probably a bottle of ginger beer, rather than a pint of porter! Happily, at some point WW1, the Station came back into the fold and a full range of refreshments and beverages was offered.

Above postcard circa 1913.

Above postcard 1950.

Above photo 1953. Creative Commons Licence.

Charrington's ledger. Creative Commons Licence.

Kevan of the web pub history suggests that the pub was previously called the "Railway Hotel" but addresses it as in Penshurst.

Not much doubt, I think, that the "Railway Hotel" morphed into the "Station Inn." Exactly when, I don't know. Perhaps when the "Railway Hotel" became a "no intoxicants" house? Almost certainly, the building was once owned by a landowner who took up the late-Victorian banner of temperance and determined that his estate was to be dry. The pub may have been within Lord De L'Isle's Penshurst Park estate, or the Streetfeild's (this is the correct spelling!) Chiddingstone Castle estate.

Penshurst Railway station (on the Tonbridge/Redhill line) is not actually in Penshurst but 2 miles north, adjacent to the village of Chiddingstone Causeway.

LICENSEE LIST

SMALLPIECE Thomas Jesse 1881-91+ (age 31 in 1881)

WALKER Arthur John (manager) 1903+

MARTIN William Lunn 1913-51

SMITH E M Mrs 1951-61+

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

https://pubwiki.co.uk/StationInn1.shtml

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