BAT AND BALL Pub of Southborough

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Saturday, 11 March, 2023.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Bat and Ball

Closed ????

141 London Road

Southborough

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Above photo 1958.

Above photo, date unknown by Darkstar.

Above photo, date unknown, photo by Paul Viney.

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.

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.

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.

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

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