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2 West Road
Goudhurst
Above photo, 1916. Kindly sent by John Whittle. |
Above image from Google, April 2010. |
The building gained a Grade 2 listing on 22 June 1989.
I am informed that Mary Ann Penfold's husband was a bricklayer by trade,
and this is probably how the name was attached to the pub.
The pub operated as a beer-house throughout it's life as far as I have
managed to trace.
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From the Courier, 15 March, 1918.
Important Sale of VALUABLE FREEHOLDS and LEASEHOLDS.
Messrs. Wickehden and sons (or Tunbridge Wells) are instructed by
the respective Executors or Owners to SELL by AUCTION. at the "Swan
Hotel." Tunbridge Wells, on FRIDAY, 10th OCTOBER, 1918, the
following PROPERTIES:-
TUNBRIDOE WELLS.
"ROSELL." 39. MOUNT EPHRAIM;
"SUNNYMOUNT." 20. ROCKVILLA, ROAD;
25. LIME HILL ROAD;
THREE PLOTS Freehold BUILDINO LAND, beng Nos. 1. 2 and 3 on the
Southview Estate (near Southborough Station);
27. QUEEN'S ROAD;
2a and 4. CURRIE ROAD;
49. GOODS STATION ROAD.
SOUTHBOROUOH.
30. LONDON ROAD:
MEADOW LAND, Pennington Road;
SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
TERRACE of COTTAGES. Castle Street;
1 to 7. WESTERN ROAD;
Also the undermentioned FREEHOLD PROPERTIES, formerly licenced and
known as the "FORESTERS' ARMS." ROMFORD ROAD, PEMBURY, with Garden
and Meadow.
"BRICKLAYER’S ARMS" GOUDHURST, convertible into 3 Cottages.
"HEARTS OF OAK." BIDDENDEN; together with £450 Stock in the
Tunbridge Wells Gas Company.
Further particulars in future announcements.
The Central Auction Offices, 20. High Street, Tonbridge Wells.
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From an email received 14 August 2016.
HI re Bricklayers Arms,
Just to let you know that after 1911 and until it closed in 1916, when
the premises were deemed unfit for public use due to poor lighting, low
ceilings and being situated at the top of a steep hill which could prove
hazardous for parked vehicles.
My Great uncle John Edward Whittle was the
licensee. Many of the family and their cousins went to the school next
door.
The 'Whittles' were a family of steam engine drivers who were driving
engines on the LBSCR, London Chatham and Dover and in France. John's
father, also John Whittle born Salford 1837, drove engines in France in
the Prussian war alongside his father in law and uncle Edward Whittle.
Hence the plaque bearing the name 'The Bricklayers Arms' together with a
motif of a steam engine.
Yours sincerely,
Diane Ruff.
Above photo showing John, Caroline Whittle and Eunice Edmonds.
Whilst John Whittle senior and family were living in 'The Bricklayers
Arms' (formerly known as 'The Brick'), both he and his son Bertram
(known as Bertie) went off to WW1 to drive steam engines in both France
and Salonika, Greece. When they returned in 1918, their discharge papers
gave an Eastbourne address so the pub must have closed by then. John
drove and Bertie was his fireman.
My cousins said that the plaque was put up by the new owners when it
became 'Holly House'. The new owner was a railway enthusiast and when he
read the deeds and history of the house ,He decided to make a plaque.
The new owner used to frequent a railway in London which goes by the
same name and he wanted to keep the railway connection!
Regards,
Diane Ruff.
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The census of 1841 showed William Penfold, husband of Mary to be a
bricklayer but no mention of a beer shop etc.
LICENSEE LIST
PENFOLD (nee FULLER) Mary Ann 1851+ (age 55 in 1851 )
HUMPHREY Charles 1861+ (also farrier age 35 in 1861)
GILBERT James 1871-91+ (also farmer age 47 in 1881)
SULLIVAN John 1901+ (age 48 in 1901)
HEAD Tom 1911+ (and 56 in 1911)
WHITTLE John Edward 1911-16
https://pubwiki.co.uk/BricklayersArms.shtml
Census
From the Post Office Directory 1874
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