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Aylesham
At present I have no idea what this hotel was, or indeed whether it was
ever built, the only information I know about is as below.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 21
January, 1927.
AYLESHAM HOTEL SITE
At Canterbury, on January 8th, the hotel site at Aylesham, was sold by
Messrs Honeyball and Finn for £3,500. there was keen bidding, and an
undertaking was given that no other licensed premises would be allowed
within the 600 acres of the township for two years. A licensee will have to
be obtained from the Magistrates. The purchasers are stated to be Messrs.
Judge, Hanbury and Co. Ltd.
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From an email received 26 October, 2012
Hello Paul;
I too have never heard mention of the ‘Aylesham Hotel' in all my
association with that village since the 1950s. The report which you have
placed on the Aylesham page merely tells of the ‘hotel site' in Aylesham
being auctioned. I am fairly sure that this ‘site' is where the
Greyhound was built. Many of the reports from the early days on the
Greyhound page refer to it as ‘the Hotel' and, judging by the size of
it, the intention was probably always that it would be a hotel. For a
mere public house, The "Greyhound" was enormous and many often wondered
why it was so big. Why was it never used as a hotel? It might well have been for a brief
period in the very early days but it would soon have lost its appeal. No
one in their right mind, in the early days, would have considered
overnighting in Aylesham, such was its reputation. Certainly not
strangers or people with no contacts/relatives in the village. Stuart Eaton
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I too am beginning to think this was indeed the plot for the "Greyhound."
LICENSEE LIST
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