DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 31 March, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1715

 Beehive

Latest 1921

10 High Street

Lydd

Beehive 1912

Above photo circa 1912, taken from https://theromneymarsh.net/ accessed March 2021.
Beehive 2011

Above photo 2011 by David Anstiss Creative Commons Licence.
Beehive PlaqueBeehive date stone

Above pictures showing, left a plaque stating that this was indeed the "Beehive" and right, the letters C T A and 1715.
Beehive 2015

Above photo, 2015.

 

The the group of buildings numbered 6, 8 and 10 High Street gained a Grade 2 listing on 30 January 1973 and comprises of 3 cottages, shop and house all under one roof span.

The "Beehive" which housed number 10 can be dated to 1715 with the initials C T A, and it is said was once famous for its bare knuckle fighting.

 

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald 30 July 1921.

MORE EAST KENT LICENSES TO BE EXTINGUISHED.

COMPENSATION AUTHORITY GRANT ONE RENEWAL AND REFUSE SIX.

Lord Harris presided, on Saturday, at the Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury, over the "Principal" meeting of the East Kent Compensation Authority, the other members of the Committee present being Messrs. W. A. Lochee, C. J. Burgess, Alec Baird, G. F. Raggett, H. H. Green, and A. G. Iggulden.

The following houses came before the Committee for consideration:-

Borough of Lydd:- "Beehive," High Street, Lydd, licensee, Reginald Brett Paine; registered owners, E. Finn and Sons, Ltd., Lydd.

After hearing at length arguments by counsel for the retention of these houses the Committee decided that the whole of them must go for compensation.

 

LICENSEE LIST

BLUCHER Thomas D 1871+ (age 28 in 1871Census)

CHAPMAN William 1899+

PAINE Reginald Brett to 1921

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