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4 North Street
Strood
https://whatpub.com/three-gardeners
Above photo circa 1910. |
Above Christmas card, date unknown. |
Above photo, date late 1950s. |
Above photo, date unknown, showing licensee Bill Harrison standing to
the right in the sunlight. |
Photo taken on 29 June, 2010 from
http://www.flickr.com
by Ben Levick. |
Above sign, November 1986.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
This was mentioned in a book called the "History of Strood" by Henry
Smetham, published 1899 who say this was situated on the east side of
North Street.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 15 August 1843.
An accident of a very serious nature occurred to a boy named Henry
Colville, aged 12 years, on Thursday last. It appeared that the boy, and
several others, were amusing themselves in Mr. Watson’s meadow, in the
Frindsbury-road; the boy Colville had climbed up into a tree in search
of a bird’s nest, when, by some accident, he slipped his hold and fell
upwards of twenty feet, and in his descent falling across a wall, he
broke his back, and was otherwise injured in falling to the ground, so
that he died within a quarter of an hour after. An inquest was held the
same evening at the "Three Gardeners," before J. Lewis, coroner for the
city of Rochester, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
Death."
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From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, 22 June 1861.
A Fatal Accident.
On Friday evening an inquest was held at the "Three Gardeners," Strood,
before J. Lewis, Esq., city coroner, touching the death of Joseph
Collins, age 52, who came by his death the previous afternoon, under the
following circumstances.
James Baker, a lad about 15 years of age, in answer to the coroner, said
that he did not understand the nature of an oath. He went to church but
knew nothing further. After some further questions he was sworn, and
stated that he was in Cage Lane on Thursday afternoon about half past 5
o'clock. He saw the deceased who wanted to mount a horse, and asked him
to "give him a leg." He gave it and deceased got on the back of a horse.
There was no saddle. The horse kicked and jumped, then hung down his
head, and the deceased fell right over his head, and he did not rise
again. The horse did not kick again, but walked about. Witness could not
read or write - the worse for him. He was obliged to work sometimes on
Sundays.
Mr. John Langstone, surgeon to the Union, ever been called in to see the
deceased, expressed an opinion that he had died from concussion of the
brain.
Verdict, accidental death.
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From the
http://www.kentonline.co.uk 4 March 2009. By Lynn Cox.
Flames rip through derelict pub.
The former "Three Gardeners" pub in North Street, Strood, has been
destroyed by fire.
The scene of the fire in Strood. Picture: Keyan Milanian.
Part of Strood town centre was closed this morning after fire broke
out in an old pub in North Street.
The former "Three Gardeners" hostelry went up in flames shortly after
midnight.
The fire, which ripped through the whole building, may have left it
in an unsafe condition.
At the height of the blaze, around 40 firefighters were involved in
the operation.
Crews from Strood, Medway, Thames-side and Cliffe fire stations,
along with a height vehicle from Maidstone, were sent to the scene.
A spokesman for Strood fire station said: "We were called out at
12.05am and when we arrived the place was well alight.
The flames were intense and were leaping right across the road.
"The staff from the kebab shop next door had alerted us to the fire
and they had got out of the shop and were standing in the car park
opposite.
"We tackled the flames for hours but the inside of the building has
been destroyed, there is nothing left but the shell of the building.
"We eventually left at about 4am and other crews took over, to damp
down and make sure the flames didn't reignite.
Fire investigators were returning to the site today to try to find
out how the fire started. |
The 1901 census showed Charles Chambers now a widower and retired
publican still living in the premises.
The pub closed in 2006 and I am informed became 5 one bedroom flats in
June 2012.
LICENSEE LIST
WEST James 1828+ (
"Three Jolly Gardeners")
WEST Samuel 1832+
WEST James 1841+ (age 45 in 1841 )
ROOK Samuel 1851+ (age 66 in 1851)
ROOK Samuel & ROOK Samuel George 1855-61+ (widower age 76 son age 44 in
1861)
ROOK James Joseph 1862-71 (bankrupt, 23 June 1871)
CHAMBERS Charles 1874-91 dec'd (age 45 in 1881)
CHAMBERS Eliza 1891+ (widow age 47 in 1891)
HOLMES George Eli 1901-18+ (age 34 in 1901)
RICE John Watt 1919-22+
RICE Alice Marian Mrs 1930+
SHEARING Herbert William 1938+
HARRISON Bill ????
https://pubwiki.co.uk/ThreeGardeners.shtml
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/threegardeners.html
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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