DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Saturday, 26 November, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1861-

 Westbere Butts

Closed ????

Island Road / Margate Road in 1861Census

Westbere

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Former Westbere Butts

Above photo 2010 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.
Former Westbere Butts 2012

Above photo circa 2012, by Darkstar.
Westbere Butts sign 1991

Above sign July 1991.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.
Westbere Butts 2018

Above photo taken and sent by Rory Kehoe July 2018.

 

Unfortunately closed, some time before 2010 and was in 2015 operating as an Indian restaurant called Spice Master.

Latest news is that ceased trading in 2017 and the premises has since been boarded up and is subject to planning permission for demolition for new housing.

The Westbere Butts, has recently (2022) been demolished and the site is now being developed into a small housing estate.

 

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here. Local knowledge required.

Thanks for your co-operation.

 

From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 13 February, 1909.

WESTBERE. FATAL FALL FROM A LOFT.

The East Kent Coroner (Mr. K. M. Mercer) held an inquiry at the "Westbere Butts Inn" on Friday respecting the death of an agricultural labourer named Henry Divers, an old man seventy-six years of age.

From the evidence that was adduced it appeared that the deceased was in a loft at work shifting straw at Tile Lodge Farm, when he stepped back and fell down the opening in the floor through which there was a step ladder on to the brick foundation of the wall below - a distance of about fifteen feet. He was taken home unconscious and died on Thursday. Dr. Greasley attended the deceased, who succumbed to Hemorrhage of the brain and compression.

A verdict of Accidental Death, was returned by the jury.

 

LICENSEE LIST

GURNEY William Gurney 1861-74+ (farmer age 49 in 1871Census)

HANDCOCK George 1881+ (age 33 in 1881Census)

BENTLEY Henry 1891-1901+ (also farmer age 46 in 1891Census)

BENTLEY Emma 1901+ (age 48 in 1901Census)

BENTLEY Eliza Mrs 1903+ Kelly's 1903

LUCKHURST Frederick 1911+ (age 50 in 1911Census)

CHAMPS Charles Edwin 1913-22+

HOGBIN Ambrose V 1930-/Mar/36 Whitstable Times

LYNCH Michael John Mar/1936-38+ Whitstable Times

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Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

Whitstable TimesWhitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald

 

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