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PUB LIST | PUBLIC HOUSES | Paul Skelton | |||||
June 2013 |
Corner House |
Open 2020+ |
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42 Station Road Minster 01843 823000 https://www.cornerhouserestaurants.co.uk/ https://whatpub.com/corner-house
Classed as a restaurant, so to enjoy a drink you will have to order a meal as well. This venue opened in 2013 and has recently been joined by another "Corner House" opening in Canterbury. John Bates tells me the following history:- "Before 1954, the Corner House was the Corner Shop/Corner House Tea Rooms/the Corner Cafe - a sweet shop at the front, a tea room in the centre and a cafe (with pinball machine) at the back - this continued as such until the late 1970s/early 1980s if memory serves me right and owned by the adjoining Lucas family. Then a Barry Norman bought it and started to convert all of it into more of a restaurant, bar, and takeaway (for pizza, burgers, etc). David Sworder (Morton’s Fork, The Chequers and Bayside Brasserie in Kent) then bought it in 1984 and ran it to 2000 or so. He ran it as a restaurant and added a couple of guest bedrooms. I can't remember if it was Barry Norman or him who changed the name to Morton's Fork (after a Chaucer character). After being leased out to a couple of different people the current 'owner', Matthew Sworder, took it over in 2013 as other property options for him starting out on his own had fallen through.
LICENSEE LIST NORMAN Ron & Barry (father & son)1980s+ SWORDER David 1984-2000 SWORDER Matthew June 2013-20+
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