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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1861-

 Hand in Hand

Latest 1861+

(Name to)

 

Loose

 

Only one instance of this found at present, but I do have reference to a "Bird in Hand" in Coxheath, and a "Hammer in Hand" in Maidstone.

 

From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday 23 February 1861.

An inquest was also held at the "Hand in Hand Inn," Loose, on Thursday, before J. Dudlow, Esq., on the body of a paper maker named Weedon, who committed suicide on the previous day, by drowning himself in a pond adjoining Mr. Greens mill.

From the evidence it appeared that insanity was very prevalent in the family, the deceased being the fourth that had been inflicted, and is said to have been in connection with a body of Revivalists frequenting Tovil.

The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity.

 

I believe the pub changed name to the "Bockingford Arms" in 1861, less the newspaper article of that year used the old name for the pub.

 

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