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Page Updated Ashford:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.
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Earliest 1849-

 Mechanics Arms

Latest 1849+

New Town

Ashford

 

Only one reference found of this one so far and obviously named after the workers from the railway workshops built there.

New Town being created by the South Eastern Railway, adjacent to the railway station, and included their railway workshops. Originally it was going to be called Alfred Town but by 1850 130 houses had been built for the local railway workers and they referred to it as the New Town and the name stuck.

 

Kentish Gazette, 5 June 1849.

ASHFORD.

On Friday the 1st of June an inquest was held at the "Mechanics' Arms," New Town, Ashford, on the body of William Tuff, aged 22 years, who unfortunately came by his death by drowning. The young man only returned from a visit to his friends in London the day previous. He had written to his friends to say he arrived safe home, when the next news arrived, per telegraph, to say that while bathing in a river near the South-Eastern Railway locomotive department, where he was employed as a workman, he sank to rise no more.

The verdict was "Accidental death."

 

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