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72 Oxford Street
Whitstable
01227 770773
https://theeastkentpub.com/
https://whatpub.com/east-kent
Above photo, circa 1940. |
Above photo 2009 by David Anstiss
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above pictures taken from
www.beerintheevening.com 2014. |
Above photo August 2017, taken and sent by Steve Glover. |
 
Above sign left, March 1976, sign right, July 1991.
 
Above sign left, November 1994, sign right 2009.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
 
Above sign left, 2020, kindly taken and sent by Roger Pester. Sign
right, 2018 by Steve Glover. |
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The "East Kent" sign displays the Welsh griffin and motto of the East
Kent Regiment. Veteri Frondescit Honore. ("Old
Branch Office.")
Les Vial kindly points out the following:- Please note that Buffs badge
on the front of the pub is not a gryphon - it’s a Tudor Dragon that dates
back to 1572 and has been part of the cap badges of the Buffs (Royal East
Kent Regiment), the Queen’s Regiment and now the Princess of Wales’s Royal
Regiment.
Edward Blaxland gave up in 1918 due to his son Edwin dying on 4th
November 1918. His son served in the Northumberland Fusiliers and died of
wounds. His name is on the Whitstable War Memorial diagonally opposite and
close to the East Kent.
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South Eastern Gazette, 4 September, 1860.
ST. AUGUSTINE’S PETTY SESSIONS. Saturday.
(Before W. Slarke, W. Plummer, G. Neame, and . Wynn Ellis, Esqrs.)
This was the annual general licensing day for the various
public-houses situate within the Home Division. All the old licenses
were renewed, and it is due to the respective landlords to state
that out of the entire number only about two complaints had been
made daring the past year, and they were only of a trifling
character. There were six applications for new licenses, viz:—
Thos. Geo. Browning, for the "East Kent Tavern," at Whitstable. The
application was supported by Mr. W. W. Baden, who stated that the
population of Whitstable was upwards of 4,000, and that there were
only nine licensed houses in the town. He produced a memorial,
highly respectably and numerously signed.
Application granted.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 8 September, 1860.
ST. AUGUSTINE’S PETTY SESSIONS. Saturday.
This was the annual general licensing day for the various public-houses
situate within the Home Division. All the old licenses were renewed, and
there were the following applications for new ones.
Thomas George Browning for the "East Kent Tavern," at Whitstable. The
application was supported by Mr. W. W. Eaden, who stated that the
population of Whitstable was upwards 4,000, and that there were only
nine licensed houses in the town. he produced a memorial, very
respectably and numerously signed.
The applications were granted.
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South Eastern Gazette, 11 September, 1860.
ST, AUGUSTINE’S PETTY SESSIONS.
Saturday. (Before W. Slarke, Esq., in the chair, G. Neame and Wynn
Ellis, Esqrs.)
Thomas George Browning, landlord of the "East Kent Tavern" at
Whitstable, asked the bench if he was allowed to open his house to
customers who arrived by train from Faversham on Sunday mornings. He
stated that the landlords at Faversham did so there.
The Clerk replied that the applicant would have to use his own
discretion as to whom he opened his house, but he was only allowed
to do so to those persons who were bona fide travellers.
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From the Kentish Chronicle, 15 September, 1860.
Thomas George Browning, landlord of the "East Kent Tavern" at
Whitstable, asked the bench if he was allowed to open his house to
customers who arrived by train from Faversham on Sunday mornings. He
stated that the landlords at Faversham did so there.
The Clerk replied that the landlord would have to use his own discretion
as for whom he opened the house, but he was only allowed to do so to
those persons who were bonafide travellers.
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Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette, Saturday 17 March 1888.
EAST KENT HOTEL, WHITSTABLE.
Sarah F. Clifford, Widow of Charles Clifford, Begs to inform the public
that she has made arrangements for carrying on the above-mentioned
well-known Hotel, which her late husband conducted during a period of
seven years; and in returning thanks for the support accorded to her
husband, respectfully solicits a continuance of the same on her own
behalf.
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LICENSEE LIST
BROWNING Thomas George 1860-62+ (age 32 in 1861 )
CLIFFORD Charles 1871+ (age 27 in 1871)
MAYTUM Alfred James 1874+
BASSETT Thomas 1881 (age 45 in 1881)
CLIFFORD Charles 1881-Mar/88 dec'd (age 38 in 1881)
CLIFFORD Sarah F Mar/1888+
KENNARD Edwin 1889-94+ (age 41 in 1891)
BLAXLAND Edward 1901-18 (age 43 in 1901)
NORRISS Albert Francis 1911+ (hotel keeper age 46 in 1911)
DUNK Nicholas 1918+
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