DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

Old White Hart

Closed 1913+

High Street

Orpington

 

Not to be confused with the current "White Hart" this one was demolished circa 1913 and the new one built on a nearby site.

This building is not the same as the existing "White Hart." The old "White Hart" was a separate building that was situated behind the current building. The existing "White Hart" was built circa 1913 and for a very short time both buildings existed. The old building was demolished soon after. The landlord at the time (Albert Spencer-May) was very beneficial to Orpington in that he opened a Cinema in 1911 (The Carlton) and then later in 1933 a super-cinema (The Commodore).

 

South Eastern Gazette,10 January, 1860.

BROMLEY.

At the Patty Sessions, held at the "Bell Inn," on Monday, before Lord Sydney and five other magistrates, the following licenses were transferred:—

The "White Hart," Orpington, from Thomas Hayward to James Bruce.

The "Five Bells," Chelsfield, from Mrs. Sarah Jones to James Saker.

The "Guy, Earl of Warwick," Welling, from Henry Bartlett to W. K. Tritton.

There was no police business.

 

Aberdeen Herald and General Advertiser 15 February 1862.

BURNS' BIRTHNIGHT IN KENT.

Sir.—For the benefit of your readers, who are scattered over the globe, allow me to describe how a few Scotchmen spent a night full of enjoyment on the birthday of our National Bard. We sat down to dinner at the "White Hart," in Orpington, eight in number—a plumber, a schoolmaster, a reporter, a boilermaker, a sergeant in the Scots Greys, wounded at Waterloo; a Scots Fusilier, who had been in the four Crimean battles; our landlord, Mr. Bruce, who had been in the Crimea and China; an old gentleman from the hills of Strathglass, and a humble disciple of Hippocrates; and Dr. Kilgour, who filled the chair. At the head of the table, a sheep's paunch sent up a cloud of grateful incense, for the unexpected honour of being elevated to the chieftainship of the pudding race; in the centre, a handsome roast showed our appreciation of that gracious toast, "The land we live in;" whilst at the bottom a sheep's head raised its eyes and trotters beseechingly towards heaven, for the unheard of indignity of having its curly locks singed and jeered at the blacksmith's forge. Our dinner was seasoned and prolonged by many a Scottish anecdote, a species of humour, which has almost no parallel in English conversation; then followed "The Queen;" "The Immortal Memory of the Poet;" "The Land o' Cakes;" " The Land we live in;" "Scotch Lasses;" "Sir Walter;" "Hogg, Tannshill, and Ramsay;" "The Empress Eugenie," and a host of other toasts. Of songs we had "The barrin’ o’ our door;" "The weary pand o’ tow," &c. After "Scots wha hae" was sung, our Scots Grey, whose Herculean frame and splendid bearing made him a worthy namesake of the hero of Scotland, remarked to our Landlord, "Ay, man, the Kentish folk would hae lookit unco queer, five hundred years ago, gin they had seen Bruce and Wallace sitting together in the "White Hart," drinking whisky toddy!" Our ancient Gael, after descanting very fervently, if not very logically, on the ventability of old Ousian, gave us a Ross-shire pibroch in splendid style. The Fusilier, in replying to his health, did so in these pathetic and noble words — "Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart for the honour you have conferred upon me; but I would much rather that the Chairman had proposed the toast that I now shall drink — "The memory of my comrades in arms who fell in the field of glory beside me." Haring sung " Auld Langsyne," with folded arms and grasping hands, which caused an Englishman present to exclaim that he no more would wonder that Scotchmen clung together all the world over, we broke up as sober as judges of the present century.

SCOTUS IN ANGLIA.

 

LICENSEE LIST

POOLE Richard 1828+ Pigot's Directory 1828-29

POOLE Sarah 1832-41+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34 (age 55 in 1841Census)

POOLE Richard 1851-58+ (age 30 in 1851Census)

HAYWARD Thomas to Jan/1860

BRUCE James Jan/1860-61+ (age 42 in 1861Census)

Last pub licensee had PACKHAM Charles 1871+ (age 54 in 1871Census)

WATKINS William 1874+

MILLS Walter 1881+ (age 25 in 1881Census)

GORE Henry 1882+

BARR Mr 1906+

MAY Albert Spencer 1911-13+ (age 31 in 1911Census)

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Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

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