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27 The Street
Appledore
Above postcard, circa 1930, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above postcard circa 1933, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above showing part of a Mackeson advert 1935. |
Above postcard circa 1958, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, date unknown |
Above photo, 1976. |
Above photo, 1981. |
Above photo date unknown. |
Above sign 2006. |
Above aluminium card issued June 1951. Sign series 3 number 36.
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Kentish Gazette 5 May 1801.
Appledore.
John Saunders, of the "Swan Inn," begs leave to acquaint the public
that he has taken out a licence for the purpose of selling goods by
auction; likewise intends following the employment of an Appraiser,
having been regularly bred as a Carpenter and Joiner.
Hopes by his attention to merit their favours.
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Kentish Gazette 14 January 1803.
Wednesday morning died, after a long illness, Miss Saunders,
daughter of Mrs. Saunders, at the "Swan Inn," Appledore.
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Kent Gazette Reports 9 August 1805.
MARRIAGE.
Monday last, at Appledore, Mr. Samuel Strickland, to Miss Saunders,
daughter of Mr. Saunders, "Swan Inn," Appledore.
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Thanet Advertiser, Saturday 14 June 1924.
A Round of Ringing.
On Whit-Monday the St. Lawrence (Ramsgate) ringers held their annual
ringing tour.
They started from the church at 8 o'clock in the morning and visited
Wye, Lenham, Charing, Biddenden, Tenterden and Appledore. Lunch was
liberally served at Chestnut House, Charing, and tea at the "Swan
Hotel," Appledore.
The return journey was commenced about 7 o'clock and St. Lawrence
was reached at 10:30 the homeward run being through Ashford and
Canterbury.
Stops with made of each of the places visited, and the members of
the party indulged in their campanological art. Some good touches of
"Stedman Triples," "Bob Major," "Kent Treble Bob," and "Grandsire
Triples" were rung.
The party spent a most enjoyable time.
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From an email sent 8 November 2014.
The Swan at Appledore
I visited this pub about twenty years' ago and found the following
notice displayed in the bar:-
"GEORGE MONK kept the house and traded as a shoemaker until 1839. In
that year the "Swan," along with other licensed houses, was purchased by
ALFRED WHITE, a brewer, draper and grocer of Lydd. In August 1839 he
assigned the lease of the "Swan" to RICHARD ASHBEE, a poulterer of
Wittersham, who served here until his death in 1850, whereupon his widow
CELIA took over the Inn. She kept it until 1869 when she was succeeded
by RICHARD FOWLE, keeper of the "Red Lion," Appledore'.
The licensee Richard Ashbee was a descendant of the Ashbees of
Pluckley and Little Chart and he married Celia Brown of Shadoxhurst in
1821. There is a memorial stone to mark their grave in Appledore
churchyard.
Regards,
Gilbert Ashbee. |
According to the KentOnLine website accessed 7 September 2020, the pub
was purchased by Alfred White in 1839 who was a brewer, draper and grocer of
Lydd.
The building gained a Grade 2 listing on 16 August 1962.
I believe the pub is now (2015) closed and was closed by Shepherd Neame
some time after 2006.
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Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 14 January 1803.
Wednesday morning died, after a long illness, Miss Saunders, daughter of
Mr. Saunders, at the "Swan Inn," Appledore.
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South Eastern Gazette 04 August 1835.
DIED.
July 22, at Ticehurst, at the establishment of Mr. Charles Newington,
Mrs. Ann Munk, aged 52 years, widow of Mr. George Munk, for many years
landlord of the "Swan Inn," Appledore, highly esteemed by all her
acquaintance. |
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Brighton Gazette 23 July 1840.
APPLEDORE.
On Thursday last a return match of cricket was played between the
Hastings and Appledore Club. The game came of in a field belonging to
Mr. Ashbee, the landlord of the "Swan Inn," at Appledore, commanding an
uninterrupted view of the marsh and surrounding neighbourhood. Hastings
first took the bat, and scored 109 runs, when Appledore went in, and
made up seventy, leaving their opponents thirty-nine in advance, to
which, in their second innings, Hastings added thirty-eight more, making
seventy nine for Appledore to accomplish. Chinnell and Wenman again took
the bat, and fetched nearly 30 runs in a very short space of time, when
night closed upon them, and they were obliged to retire from the field,
neither being out. Throughout the day the game was truly interesting,
and the weather so remarkably fine, that it drew numerous spectators
from a distance round. A spacious booth was erected with every
accommodation for the public; and there could not have been less than
300 persons present to witness so interesting a game. |
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The Sussex Advertiser Surry Gazette &c. 11 January, 1848.
MELANCHOLY GUN ACIDENT.
One of those fatal gun accidents which so often meet the eye through the
public journals, occurred on the 3rd instant at Appledore, in Kent, and
caused instantaneous death to a young man named Charles Ashbee, about 26
years of age, son of the landlord of the "Swan Inn," the particulars of
which are as follows:- The deceased with three young friends went out a
shooting, and had got some little distance, when Mr. Pearson, who had a
double barrelled gun, one barrel of which had been discharged, was
getting through a hedge, when the trigger of his other barrel was caught
by a bough, which caused the gun to go off, and lodge the contents in
the head of the deceased, who had just got through the hedge and was
standing in the road, he had only time to utter an exclamation when he
fell dead in the road. Two or three of the stray shots struck another of
the party in the face. An inquest was held at the "Swan Inn" on the
following day, when the above particulars having been given in evidence,
a verdict of "accidentally shot," was returned. The event has caused a
deep gloom in Appledore, and plunged Mr. Asbee's family in the greatest
distress.
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From The Dover Express, Friday, March 10, 1911; pg.1; Issue 2767.
SILVER WEDDING. GRANT - THORP.
On March 8th, 1886, at the Church of St Peter and Paul,
Charlton, by the Rev. C. F. Baynham, Richard George Grant to Catherine McLellan Thorp.
Present address - The "Swan, Appledore, Kent. |
LICENSEE LIST
SAUNDERS John 1801-05+
MONK/MAUK/MUNK George 1828-39
 
ASHBEE Richard 1839-50 dec'd (age 40 in 1841 )
ASHBEE Celia O 1850-69 (widow age 47 in 1851)
FOWLE Richard 1859+
FOWLE Richard 1871+
TOMPKIN John 1891+ (age 61 in 1891)
DRURY George 1901+
GODFREY Edwin 1903+
NOAKES Clifton Lionel 1922+
WILKINSON T 1930+
RIVERS Richard G 1938+
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From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
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From the Kelly's Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From the Post Office Directory 1930
From the Post Office Directory 1938
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