DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Thursday, 17 November, 2022.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1783-

Hare and Hounds

July 2015

(Name to)

4 Blean Hill

Blean

01227 450266

Above photo, date unknown.

Hare and Hounds

Above photo circa 2013.

Hare and Hounds sign 1975Hare and Hounds sign 1991

Above photo left, March 1975. Sign right July 1991.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

hare and Hounds sign 2013

Above sign 2013.

Hare and Hounds ghost sign 2021

Above photo from Rory Kehoe, showing the old sign still on the building in 2021.

 

Kentish Gazette - Saturday 15 November 1783.

To be Sold by Auction, By Order of the Guardians of the Poor of the City of Canterbury, at the Workhouse in the said City, On Monday next, the 17th Day of November instant, At Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, THE UNDERWOOD, of four Acres, two Roods, and thirty-one Perches of Woodland, lying and being in the Parish of St. Cosmus and Damian, in the Blean, in the County of Kent.

Enquire for John Marsh, at the "Hare and Hounds," Blean, who will shew the said Woodland.

 

Kentish Chronicles, 1 December, 1795.

Death.

Thursday died Mrs. Dove, at the "Hare and Hounds" public house, in the parish of Blean, age 61.

 

From the Kentish Gazette, 21 March 1848.

Dove.—

March 14, at the "Hare and Hounds,", Blean, near Canterbury, Mrs. Dove.

 

Kentish Gazette, 17 September 1850.

DEATH.

Dove:— Sept 4, at Blean, near Canterbury, Mr. William Dove, aged 82, upwards of 50 years landlord of the "Hare and Hounds" of that place.

 

From the Kentish Chronicle, 16 July, 1864.

SHORT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND FALSE SCALES.

A number of cases of short weights and measures and defective scales were reported to the Court by Mr. Mount, inspector of weights and measures for the Home Division. After hearing the circumstances the magistrates convicted and imposed fines as follows:—

Zachariah Wellard, landlord of the “Hare and Hounds,” Blean, for two deficient measures purporting to be pints, fined 2 s. 6d. and costs.

 

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 8 February 1947.

Whitstable Magistrates Miss Licensing Meeting.

CAR SKIDS OFF ROAD INTO FIELD.

A skid on the slippery road near the "Hare and Hounds" on Monday prevented two Whitstable J.Ps., Mr. Arthur Collar and Mr. F. S. Gann, from taking their place on the Bench at St. Augustine's annual licensing meeting held at Canterbury that morning.

The car in which they were travelling skidded sideways while descending the hill towards Blean bottom and crashed through a hedge into a field adjoining the road before coming to rest.

Fortunately, neither Mr. Collar nor Mr. Gann was injured and the car was almost undamaged.

With the help of men from a nearby farm the car was soon back on the road but the incident delayed the magistrates to such an extent that they were unable to reach Canterbury in time for the meeting.

 

I have been informed that the pub changed name to the "Blean Tavern" in the summer of 2015.

 

LICENSEE LIST

MARSH John 1783+

DOVE ???? 1795+

DOVE William 1841-4/Sept/50 dec'd (age 70 in 1841Census)

DOVE Sarah 1851 (age 25 in 1851Census)

WELLARD G 1858+

WELLARD Zachariah 1861-64+ (age 46 in 1861Census)

BISHOP Abraham 1871-74+ (age 24 in 1871Census)

Uninhabited 1881+ Census

HAMMOND James 1882+

GILLIS John (Publican age 70 in 1891Census)

TOSLAND Thomas Henry 1891+

ATMORE George 1901-03+ (age 49 in 1901Census) Kelly's 1903

FAGG John 1913+

JONES Albert Stephen to Jan/1916 Whitstable Times

REYNOLDS Clara Rose Mrs Jan/1916-18+ Whitstable Times

HARTRIDGE Clara Rose Mrs 1922+

WOOLLETT Walter 1930+

FOLDS George 1938+

BROOKES Ron 1980s-90s (partner ran "Sovereign," Whitstable.)

https://pubwiki.co.uk/HareHounds.shtml

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

Whitstable TimesWhitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald

 

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