Above postcard, circa 1910, kindly sent by Shaun Gardiner.

Above photo, circa 1950, kindly sent by Shaun Gardiner.

Above photo 2011 by Ian Capper Creative Commons Licence.

Above sign, 1970.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 01 January 1889.

DEATH OF A CHILD FROM BURNING.

On Thursday evening an inquest was held at the "Lads of the Village," before Mr E. N. Wood, to enquire into the cause of death of a child named Annie Kate Rose Sawyer, aged four years. The evidence showed that the child, with others, was standing in front of the fire downstairs, while the mother was upstairs, and by some means or other her clothes caught fire, and the child was severely burned on the neck, chest, and face. She died from shock to the system the next day. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.