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141 London Road
Southborough
https://whatpub.com/bat-ball
Above photo, circa 1900, showing a steam powered wagon passing the "Bat
and Ball", the "Bell" is shown to it's left, next door. |
Above photo 1958. |
Above photo, date unknown by Darkstar. |
Above photo, date unknown, photo by Paul Viney. |
Above Google image, September 2008. |
Above Google image, August 2012. |
Above Google image, September 2025. |
 
Above sign left 1992, kindly taken and sent by Roger Pester.
Sign right, date unknown by Paul Viney. |
Reference to this pub has been found from the Police Reports of February
1949 as published in the Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser.
However, there is also a "Bat
and Ball Tavern" listed at nearby Leigh, and this may be the same pub.
According to
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk (2017) the pub is closed, but date of
closure is not given.
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Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 30 August 1878.
Our public houses.
The following report was laid before the Justice's on Tuesday by
Superintendent Kewell:- Kent County Constabulary, Tunbridge division,
27th August, 1878.
William Dolding, keeper of the
"Bat and Ball" Beer House, Southborough, was summoned for permitting
drunkenness on his licensed premises, but the case was dismissed.
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Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 11 February 1949.
APPLICATIONS.
No opposition was offered to applications for full licences made by Harold Henry Wicks, "Bat and Ball," Southborough.
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From the
https://www.kentlive.news By Mary Harris, 7 March 2023.
This pub in London Road was a regular haunt for locals and in the
mid-1980s, 'Big John' Webster was the landlord. Reference to this pub
has been found from police reports of February 1949, published in our
paper, the Sevenoaks Chronicle.
It then became a Chinese restaurant and then a Thai restaurant called
Silk, which has long closed. |
LICENSEE LIST
MARTIN Alfred 1873+
DOLDING William 1878-81+ (age 44 in 1881 )
RALPH Thomas 1901+ (age 49 in 1901)
WICKS Harold Henry 1949+
WEBSTER John 1980s+
Kent
and Sussex Courier
Census
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/batball.html
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