DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Thursday, 14 December, 2023.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

 Woolpack

Closed ????

Winchet Hill

Goudhurst

Woolpack 1948

Above photo, circa 1948.
Woolpack

Above photo date unknown.
Woolpack 1951

Above photo, circa 1951, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Woolpack Whitbread sign

Above aluminium card issued 1950. Sign series 2 number 43.
Woolpack card 1955Woolpack card 1955

Above card issued April 1955. Sign series 5 number 48.
Woolpack business card back Woolpack business card front

Above card front and cack, circa 1950s, kindly sent by Nicholas Heading.
Morning Flakes trade card 1955 Morning Flakes trade card

Above trade-card from Morning Flakes Food, saying the following:- Old Inn. For centuries the inn has been part of the British social scene, and a breeding ground for good fellowship. The Woolpack, near Goudhurst, in Kent, looks new but was in fact built of veritable ships' timbers about four hundred years old.

 

Said to have been built in the 16th century out of ships timbers.

The one time Style and Winch public house was later sold to Frederick Leney of the Phoenix Wateringbury Brewery.

It has now closed, date unknown, and is now a private house.

 

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

 

From the South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 17 October, 1837.

THE COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

John Southon, formerly of Marden, in the county of Kent, Wheelwright; then of the "Woolpack Inn," Winchett Hill, in the parish of Goudhurst, and Grocer; then of the same place, Licensed Victualler, Wheelwright, Blacksmith, and Grocer, and late of the same place, Licensed Victualler, Blacksmith and Grocer.

 

South Eastern Gazette, 10 July, 1860.

GOUDHURST. A Drunken Man Run Over.

An accident occurred on Saturday night to Stephen Roberts, in the employ of B. Wickham, Esq. It appears that he had been drinking at the "Woolpack Inn" and became intoxicated, and in coming down Winchett-hill to his cottage at the bottom, he fell in the road.

Mr. Cleaver, of Marden, veterinary surgeon, had been sent for to attend some cattle, and in returning home, about 1 o’clock, his carriage ran over the lower part of Robert’s body, whereby he sustained considerable injury.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

CHANTLER Thomas 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29

SOUTHON John 1832-Oct/37 Pigot's Directory 1832-34

CHANTLER James 1841-62+ (age 78 in 1861Census)

CHANTLER Jesse 1871-1901+ (also farmer age 72 in 1901Census) Kelly's 1903

BOND Frank 1911-13+ (age 37 in 1911Census)

RAMSON Alfred 1922+

STEWARD William A 1930+

WISH Philip 1938+

CHAPMAN S J 1950s

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

 

Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

CensusCensus

Kelly's 1903From 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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