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Sidcup
Above postcard 1924. |
Above photo 1930s. |
Above photo 1935. Kindly sent by Matt Minch. |
Above photo, 1935. Kindly sent by Matt Minch. |
Above photo 1973. |
The building was purposely built for the Sidcup station which was
opened in October 1866 near to the entrance to the goods yard.
In the 1930s this premises was supplied by Beasley's Ales, and advertised
a Private Dance Hall.
The hotel was demolished in 1975.
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From the Daily Gazette for Middlesborough, Wednesday 27 August, 1879.
OVER SANGUINE.
At Dartford on Saturday Mr Besley, barrister, on behalf of Mr George
Hawkins, builder, applied for a full license for the "Station Hotel,"
Sidcup. Applicant had erected about 150 handsome villas near the Sidcup
railway station of the South-Eastern Railway, and, acting on the
representations of Mr Malcolm, the lord of the manor of Lamorby,
constructed a spacious and commodious hotel, with stables, coachhouses,
&c., close to the railway station, at a cost of upwards of £2,000; in
full anticipation of the license following as a matter of course, and
the South-Eastern Company had permitted the cutting away of a portion of
the embankment to give access to the hotel. The application was opposed
by the local clergy and others, and the Bench refused to grant the
license, on the ground that there was no need of further accommodation
for the present.
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From the Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers'
Gazette Saturday 29 October 1898.
SIDCUP STATION HOTEL LICENCE. THE APPEAL ALLOWED.
An important appeal came before the Right Hon. J. G. Talbot, M.P., and
other magistrates at the West Kent Quarter sessions, Maidstone, on
Thursday. Mr. Ford, landlord of the "Station Hotel," Sidcup, appealed
against the refusal of the Justices of the Dartford division to renew to
him the licence of that house. The grounds for the refusal were that Mr.
Ford had been convicted for drunkenness. It was however, pointed out by
the appellant that the offence took place, not on his licensed premises,
but at Greenwich, and that his house had been well conducted. The police
of the district, stated that it was the best conducted house in the
neighbourhood.
Mr. Candy, Q.C., and Mr. Fooks represented the appellant; Mr. Dickens,
Q.C., and Mr. Hohler were for Mr. Beasley, brewer, holder of a 99 years’
lease on the hotel; while Mr. Morton Smith appeared on behalf of the
Dartford justices.
Mr. Candy explained that if the court would allow the appeal, Mr. Ford
would simply retain possession of the house until the first special
session of the division in January, when he would apply for its transfer
to a successor.
Mr. Dickens said his clients did not wish to lose the licence of the
house, and were willing to do whatever the justices thought proper.
Mr. Morton Smith declared that there was no wish on the part of the
Dartford justices to take away the licence for good; all they wished was
that it might be in capable hands.
The Bench allowed the appeal.
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LICENSEE LIST
SIMPSON Mr Feb/1891+
GADD Frederick Arthur 1914-25
PERUGIA E Mrs 1930s
???? Henri mid 1960s
Kentish Mercury
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