Fawkham Green

Above postcard circa 1923, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. The "Woodman" being the building immediately behind the war memorial.

In 1944 a flying bomb fell in the field known as Small Grains. It destroyed the Mission Hall and the "Woodman" alehouse, which stood where Woodman Villas now stand."

The "Woodman" was a mid-Victorian building, which in the late 1850s replaced an old thatched cottage. The licensee in 1861 was William Hollands, who may still have been at the "Woodman" when Robert Mills took on the pub. He was licensee up until 1915. The "Woodman" appears to have closed around 1923/24.

LICENSEE LIST

HOLLANDS William 1861+

JOINER David 1901+ (age 45 in 1901)

MILLS Robert to 1915

Census