Above postcard circa 1900, showing the garden area. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, circa 1902, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Showing the sign
to their tea gardens. |
Above postcard, circa 1904, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, circa 1906, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard, circa 1910. |
Above postcard circa 1910.
Above photograph, date unknown. |
Above postcard, circa 1919, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, circa 1920s, kindly sent by Andrew James Manuel, who says:-
My great grandmother is the lady to the right of the baby being carried
and her name is Harriett Elizabeth Watson and according to the 1921
census she was a charwoman living in Minster. |
Above postcard, 1923, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo showing a charabanc run by Benjamin Redbourne and Sons,
outside the "Bell Inn," date unknown. |
Above photo circa 1926, kindly supplied by Rory Kehoe. In what looks
like a Thorneycroft Silver Queen charabanc, a happy party of day
trippers on an excursion. |
Above picture Charabanc outing outside the Lytch Gate near the "Bell
Inn" 1927. John Bates tells me the wooden building behind the charabanc
is the old village hall and the building to the right of that is the old
Molineux Institute - both demolished to become the site of the current
village hall.
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Above postcard circa 1934. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard circa 1934. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Formerly a Rigden's house, the Bell is shown in the livery of George
Beer & Rigden's Faversham Brewery, after the January 1922 merger of
Rigden's with George Beer's Star Brewery, Canterbury. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo outside what we think is the Bell, circa 1947. |
Above postcard, circa 1969, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, 8 May 1982, by Jim Ashby. |
Above picture taken by Paul Skelton, 4 July, 2012. |
Above picture taken by Paul Skelton, 4 July, 2012.
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Above photo 1988, kindly sent by Michael Mirams. |
Above picture taken by Paul Skelton, 4 July, 2012. |
 
Sign left taken by Paul Skelton, 4 July, 2012.
Bell sign right August 1990 with thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com
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Above sign 2020. |
 
Above card from Whitbread Inn Signs number 7. 1973. |
Above photograph, March 2019, kindly taken and sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, 21 February 2026, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above advert 1971. |