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Oldbury Lane
Ightham
Above postcard date unknown, with kind permission from Eric Hartland. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above sign, January 1993.
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
I am informed that the premises is (2016) operating as a day nursery and
believe it closed some time around 1995.
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Kent & Sussex Courier 12 April 1929.
WEST KENT LICENSING. CONFIRMING COMMITTEE.
The West Kent Licensing Confirming Committee met at Maidstone on
Thursday. Mr. Smith Masters presiding. In all 16 applications were made
for the confirmation of licenses granted by the various Justices. The
majority were in respect of "on" wine licenses to licensees holding beer
licenses, the evidence being that women visiting the countryside by
motor preferred light wine to beer. All the applications were granted,
and included the following:- "On" wine license to "King and Queen,"
High-street, Edenbridge; "on" wine license to "Cob Tree," Ightham: and
"off" cider license to "Crown Works," High-street, Staplehurst. |
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Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, Friday, 17 March 1939.
Landmark Inn Damaged by Fire.
Serious blaze at "Cob-tree," Ightham.
The "Cob-Tree Inn," Ightham, a landmark for miles around, was badly
damaged by fire on Monday night.
The lowest storey and it's contents was gutted and so fierce was the
blaze that bottles in the cellars were melted into a solid mass.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Haddick, the licences, discovered the inn was alight
about an hour after closing. Seal and District Fire Brigade was
summoned, and the Borough Green Fire Squad also helped.
With the aid of a plentiful supply of water Chief Officer Bates and
Chief Officer Cloke were able to take steps to save the other part of
the building which had not yet caught despite the inferno on the ground
floor.
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Licensee Alfred Mitchell sadly died in 1883 and his widow went on to
marry Friend Palmer who continued as licensee.
LICENSEE LIST
REEVES James 1871+ (age 56 in 1871 )
MITCHELL Alfred 1881-83 dec'd (age 33 in 1881)
MITCHELL Ann 1883+
PALMER Friend W 1887-91+ (age 33 in 1891)
MILLER Frederick 1901+ (age 65 in 1901)
BUSS Albert 1922+
BEGLEY Thomas 19July/27-July/32
SHORTEN Arthur H 1938+
HADDICK T Mr & Mrs 1939+
GROSSETT J 1988-90+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/CobTree.shtml
Census
From the Kelly's Directory 1882
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