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55 Cross Street/Slykates Hill
Chatham
Above photo circa 1950s. Kindly sent by Peter Greening.
Here is a photo of the "Three Brothers" when it was run by the Pocock
family in the 1950's.
The hill alongside the pub is Slicketts Hill (previously Sly Kate's
Hill) and the other road is Cross Street. Back then my grandfather ran
the Christmas Club in the pub. Also when I was asked to find my Nan, the
first place I looked was the in the snug where she would be with all her
old cronies drinking their Guinness.
The snug door is the door on Slicketts Hill. The door at the front
was the bottle and jug and the door in Cross Street led into the main
public bar.
Unfortunately the pub is no longer there. I think that it was pulled
down in the 1990's.
Regards,
Peter Greening. |
The Licensing
Records of 1872 stated the premises held a Beer License and was owned by
Edward Winch of Chatham.
The name Slycates Hill. This was originally a field track leading up to
an area called Slycates Hill up on the lines, this corrupted to Slicketts
Hill and is spelt as such in news article dated 1790, there after it
corrupted again by the 1830s to Sly Kate's Hill when buildings started to be
built there and eventually c1880 on the maps back to Slicketts Hill.
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From the Maidstone and Kentish Journal, Monday, 28 May, 1866.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF SALE.
Messrs. Cobb have received instructions from the Executors of the late Mr.
Joseph Ashley, to sell by auction, in the month of June, at the "Sun Hotel,"
Chatham.
The Valuable Freehold and Leasehold Public Houses, Beer Houses, Trade
Premises, Dwelling Houses, &c., viz:-
The "Three Brothers," Slickets Hill, Chatham.
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Further notice as to time, &c., of sale, will shortly be issued.
Particulars in the meantime may be obtained of Messrs. Acworth and Son,
Solicitors, Star Hill, Rochester; of Messrs. Morris, Stone, Townson, and
Morris, solicitors, Moorgate Street Chambers, Moorgate Street; and of
Messrs. Cobb, surveyors and land agents, 26, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London,
and Rochester, Kent.
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From and email received 26 June 2020. My father, Albert Victor Caulfield
took over the running of the pub when Lil Pocock died. Dad was born close to
the pub. He helped out with deliveries as a youth.... in fact, he said it
was the Pococks who brought him up, as he was part of a large family and the
Pococks were childless. His sister Cath was employed by the Pococks for many
years.
Dad would have run The Three Brothers from around 1967 to 1974 or 5, when
the pub was torn down.
He was transferred by Courage Breweries to the "Kings Arms" in Upnor,
Kent.
He had three sons.
Yours Kay Austen, Vancouver, Canada. |
LICENSEE LIST
MEDHURST Joseph 1871-72+ (Chelsea pensioner Sergeant age 38 in 1871 )
McDOWELL Adelaide (widow) 1881+
(Beer House Keeper)
BRUNT William 1891+
DENNEY Alfred 1901-03+
SAGE Bertie Thomas 1911+ (age 35 in 1911)
POCOCK Thomas "Tickle" 1930-38+
POCOCK Lil 1950s-67 dec'd
CAULFIELD Albert Victor 1967-75
https://pubwiki.co.uk/ThreeBrothers.shtml
Licensing
Records 1872
Census
From
the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1930
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