Unknown Sign Location 23

From an Email received on 28 November, 2011.

Hello,

My name is Phillip Hodges and I live in California. I recently purchased this at an estate sale and I have no information on it. Can you help me find some historical data on it?

Thank you,

Phil.

From an email received 6 January 2012.

There was a "King's Head" in Wincheap in Canterbury.

Tina Machado,

Canada.

From an email received 11 May 2018.

Hi,

I think you have a modern reproduction sign. These were very popular in Kent on the 1990’s and produced by local artists (I think from Whitstable) for sale as curios. They are still for sale at Standard Quay in Faversham.

Sadly I am pretty certain this isn’t a real old pub sign at all and so the names and Rigdens Brewery, although real, have no connection with any real pub – either extant or lost! Its still a nice thing though.

Clive Bowley.

I looked at this sign and I remembered the "King's Head" at Hollingbourne a photo on your site shows the sign that reads George Beer and Rigdens Ales 1935 could this be a sign from there.

Alan Dadd.

It's a possibility I suppose, but it's certainly not a sign that would have been displayed outside, anyway, the "King's Head" in Hollingbourne changed name in 1975 to the "Pilgrim's Rest."

I think Clive Bowley is correct in saying the sign is a reproduction, done in the style of an old pub sign, but as these were produced in the 1990s I don't think would have been made for this pub in Hollingbourne.

Thanks for your thoughts anyway.

Regards,

Paul Skelton.