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Page Updated:- Thursday, 28 October, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1960s-

Chantry Social Club

Latest 2014

Lower Chantry Lane

Canterbury

Chantry Social Club

Above photo from Google maps, March 2009.

 

From the Local paper 1961.

Chantry Social Club darts team 1961

Above photo showing the Chantry Lane Club, winners of the Canterbury and District Sports and Social Clubs' Challenge Shield.

Left to right, back: J. Lawson, G. Epps, L. Thomas, V. Luxton (chairman), R. Hadlow, L. Cork, W. Savage.

Front: C. D. Harffey, T. M. Jenkins, F. Savage (captain), C. Coleman, D. Wilkinson.

 

From an email received 1 August 2014.

This Club is/was on Lower Chantry Lane next to the Red Cross Centre. I have Gooogled it and it is still listed though I cannot see a sign anywhere on the street view but it still looks like a clubbish building and garden area.

My Father and Uncle would go there occasionally in the 60s and 70s, especially if there was a well known personality from the world of darts. On several occasions a top player was invited to give an exhibition and Dad and Uncle George would invariable ‘take them on', as would countless others. Uncle George (Travers) once came within a whisker of beating the World Champion, Leighton Rees (according to Uncle George).

Dad was a player of some renown in East Kent darting circles and I have attached a picture of him, Ivor (Derby) Eaton, taken in The Chantry in the mid sixties, being presented with a very attractive table as the winner of an invitation singles competition.

Ivor Eaton

All the best,

Stuart Eaton.

 

I am informed that the club closed in 2014 and has been demolished.

 

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