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Sort file:- Gillingham, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1870-

New Inn

Latest 1943-

(Name to)

144 High Street

Gillingham

New Inn 1935

Above photo 1935, from www.Flickr.com by Ben Levick.

 

Information below by Ben Levick

The "New Inn" on the corner of the High Street and King Street opened before 1870 when it was known as 'The New Inn and York Tavern'. It was a large premises with a club room. In the mid 20th century it changed its name to the "Samuel Pepys". Samuel Pepys was a regular visitor to Chatham Dockyard in the 17th century as Secretary of the Naval Board. The sign was copied in 1943 from an unpublished portrait of Pepys in the possession of Mr. A. Bryant, the historian and an authority on Pepys. Mr. Bryant wrote:- "I am delighted to know Samuel Pepys is to be commemorated in a tavern. Nothing could be more fitting or human and one can feel how delighted he would be at the thought. I wish the tavern all good luck, Samuel's ghost by the fireside, and no more bombs! May it always be filled with thirsty craftsmen and master shipwrights..."

It closed in 1979.

 

LICENSEE LIST

STURLA Fanny 1891+ (widow age 49 in 1891Census)

KEW Robert James 1913+

BODDY Joseph E 1918-22+

WARD William Thomas 1930+

FROST J G 1938+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/NewInn.shtml

 

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