KINGS HEAD Pub of Sarre

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 02 July, 2024.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1600-

King's Head / Halfway House

Closed 2012

Canterbury Road

Sarre

https://whatpub.com/kings-head

Above photo, 1900, kindly sent by Glenn Hatfield.

Above postcard, circa 1906, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard, 1908, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard circa 1912, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard, 1913, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, 1909. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard 1912, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, circa 1914, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above postcard kindly sent by Kathleen Holingsbee, date circa 1920s.

Above photo kindly sent by Peter Moynahan, date unknown.

Above postcard, date unknown.

Above postcard, circa 1935, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo taken with permission from Saunders family web.

Above photo kindly sent by Peter Checksfield, 2014.

Above sign 1987.

Charles I is featured on the sign at the King's Head, built from two of three adjoining cottages in 1791. In the 1920s the pub had its own garage repair service, but was requisitioned by the Army between 1940-47.

Prior to 1833 the pub was owned by the Symond's Brewery of Ramsgate, but they sold the business and pub to Francis Cobb and Son, brewer also in Ramsgate that same year.

It is suggested that that Thomas Smith who took over from Abraham Brockman was his cousin. One of Abraham's great aunts married a Thomas Smith who begat a Thomas Smith who begat a Thomas Smith in the best tradition of patergenesis. They lived in the area surrounding Sarre. Roger Stubbs of Western Australia who kindly sent me this information says he is still trying to unravel the lineage but I thinks he will find that they are related.

Kentish Gazette 1 January 1802.

On Monday night last two men went to the "Kings Head," at Sarr, for lodgings, with which they were accommodated, but got up in the morning before the family, and stole two great coats, one pair of boots, several pair of stockings, and other articles of wearing apparel, with which they got off undiscovered.

I am not sure what is going on at the King's Head at present, (2014) but it is scaffolded and I believe it has planning permission for a change of use to a single dwelling. This notice appeared in February 2014.