West Stourmouth

Above photo, 2024, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Showing the former Plough, now much extended.

Above photo, 2024, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, 2024, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Showing the former Plough, now much extended.

Above map 1905 showing the location of the Plough, more or less opposite Francis A White's Stourmouth Brewery.

Francis A White's beer label.

The "Plough" was a shop, beer house and off licence, owned by Francis A White's Stourmouth Brewery. Not long before his untimely death, on 4th December 1904 aged only 56, Major White had put his business up for sale and offers were invited for the Stourmouth Brewery and its tied estate of 11 pubs. A 2nd November 1904 entry in the board minutes of Gardner's Ash brewery records the authorisation for Mr W G Youde (a director) to make an offer of no more that £15,000 to Worsfold & Hayward, the Canterbury estate agents who were handling the sale. After Major White's death, as part of the process of winding up his estate, the sale process continued and despite Gardner's interest, the successful bidder was Flint's St. Dunstan's Brewery, Canterbury, who paid £13,500 for the Stourmouth Brewery and its tied pubs on 23rd February 1905. Not wanting to keep the brewery, Flint's had the building stripped of its contents and these assets were auctioned on 5th October 1905. To date, I have found no historical image of the Plough, nor do I know how long Flint's kept it on as a retail outlet.

Coincidental (perhaps?) to the above situation, the White and Flint families were related by marriage. In 1838, Frederick Flint married Mary Ann White, who was the aunt of Francis Alexander White.
 

LICENSEE LIST

BENNETT Thomas 1891+ (Plough Beer Shop)

DOVE John Mar/1904-June/07

From the Dover Express

Census