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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1601-

Bull Hotel

Open 2020+

The Street

Benenden

01580 240054

https://www.thebullatbenenden.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/bull

Bull

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

Bull 1909

Above postcard, circa 1909, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Bull Hotel

Above postcard, date unknown. Advertising "Residential and Commercial. Good Accommodation. Catering of Every Description. Horses, Carriages and Motors for Hire. Telephone 5. Proprietor W. G. Cockell.

Bull 1920

Above photo circa 1920.

Bull

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Steve Glover.

Bull 1950

Above photo, circa 1950, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Bull 1953

Above postcard, circa 1953, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. As a Style & Winch tied house.

Bull Hotel 1954

Above postcard circa 1954, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Bull

Above photo, date unknown.

Bull Hotel gents toilets 2012

Above photo showing the comics that used to be held in the toilets in 2012, Jack Goodhew who kindly sent this photo says he thinks they were stolen in 2013.

 

The pub was part of the Earl of Cranbrook's estate until it became a licensed house after the Great War. It overlooks the famous Benenden cricket ground, where a century ago two professional cricketers took on the local club and beat them soundly.

 

Kentish Gazette, 5 September 1820.

A few days since an Inquest was held at the "Bull Inn," Benenden, before James Ottaway, esq. Coroner, on view of the body of Ann Goodwin, a poor woman nearly 60 years of age, residing in that parish, and who had drowned herself in a well at the back of the house. It appeared that the bad conduct of one of her sons, who had been recently apprehended on a charge of felony, and afterwards cut his own throat, produced such an effect on the mother, as to have broken her heart and distracted her undemanding at the same moment.

The Jury returned a verdict of Insanity.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 1 May 1838.

DEATH.

April 19, at Benenden, after a short illness, Mr. S. Santer, Inn keeper, aged 62.

 

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 8 June 1841.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS

To be heard at Maidstone, in the county of Kent, on the 30th day of June, 1841, at the hour of ten in the forenoon precisely.

SAM SANTER.

Sued and committed as Samuel Santer, late of Benenden, near Cranbrook, in the county of Kent, assistant to Mrs. Mary Santer, of Benenden aforesaid, licensed victualler and farmer.

 

Southeastern Gazette, 15 February 1853.

Benenden. Suicide by Poison.

An inquest was holden at the "Bull Inn", on Tuesday last, before W. T. Neve, Esq., deputy-coroner, on the body of Ann Godfrey, single woman. It appeared that she had been guilty of imprudent conduct with a young man named Daniel Else, who lodged with her father, and in order to conceal her disgrace had procured, through him, some poisonous vegetable drugs, which she took and became seriously ill. A miscarriage ensued, and she afterwards complained of her back, and acknowledged that she had taken "rank poison," brought to her by Else.

She lingered for about a fortnight afterwards. The evidence given disclosed a wretched state of morality among the household of the young woman's parents. In the cottage resided her father and mother, two brothers, aged 13 and 8, the deceased and her sister, and Daniel Else, who, Hannah Godfrey deposed, usually slept with her sister Ann.

The jury returned a verdict of "Poisoned herself."

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

NOAKES James to 1727 dec'd

NOAKES Henry (son) to May/1742 dec'd

SANTER Samuel 1828-May/38 dec'd aged 62 Pigot's Directory 1828-29

SANTER Mary 1840-41+ (also farmer age 65 in 1841Census)

THOMPSON George 1851-61+ (also farmer of 20 acres)

PARKS Thomas 1871+ (age 57 in 1871Census)

BUCKETT Charles 1881-1913+ (also farmer age 47 in 1891Census) Kelly's 1903

BUCKETT Herbert W to Dec/1916 dec'd Kent and Sussex Courier

BUCKETT Kate Dec/1916-Oct/19+ Kent and Sussex Courier

COOPER Samuel Oct/1919+ Kent and Sussex Courier

COCKELL W G ????

HAYWARD Alfred 1934+

WHITMAN Sidney 1938+

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Pigot's Directory 1828-29From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

Kent and Sussex CourierKent and Sussex Courier

CensusCensus

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

 

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