Main Street

Swanley Village

01322 615161

https://www.lambinnswanley.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/lamb

Above photo, date unknown showing the Chilmaid family. Kindly sent by Michael Norman.

Above photo 1923, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo 1962-63.

Above photo 1962-63 showing Dorothy, John, Penny & Barty Hotchkiss. Taken from http://www.riverdale.org.uk

Above photo 2017.

Above photo 2017.

Above sign, January 1984. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above matchbox, date unknown, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Opened as a beer house in 1866 by the Chilmaid family and was converted from two cottages. It remained just a beer house until bought by Shepherd Neame in 1979 after the death of the last Chilmaid licensee, Ernie.

I have just added this pub to that list but your help is definitely needed regarding it's history.

As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will be shown here.

Thanks for your co-operation.

LICENSEE LIST

CHILMAID 1866+

CHILMAID Ernie to 1979 dec'd