Above photo, date unknown, showing Seaview Cottages 1-4. The other terraced cottage, similar in design was the "Globe Inn."

Above photo showing the remains of the schoolhouse at Elmley, 2016. I don't think anything remains of the pub now. The church was knocked down in 1951.

It is suggested that the above photo shows all that is left of the "Globe."

It is suggested that the above photo shows the remains of either the cement works or the "Globe Inn."

Above map 1896.

Above sky-shot showing the location 2016.

From the Thanet Advertiser, 11 September, 1897.

Sad Fatality to a Boating Party.

Four persons have been drowned in the creek at Elmley three miles from Sittingbourne. It seems that on Sunday, at 5.30 p.m, a party of seven people took a boat, with the intention of rowing as far as King’s Ferry, a distance of about three miles from Elmley. They consisted of Henry William Bristol, who is employed at Elmley Cement Works, and his wife; Albert Etherington, aged thirty, a labourer in the cement works at Gillingham, and his wife, Elizabeth Etherington, aged twenty-five; James Stepney, aged twenty-seven, and Richard Stepney, a young fellow of eighteen, who were half-brothers, of Bristol; and George Hadlow, aged thirty-five, employed at the Elmley Cement Works.

All went well until they had gone about a mile and a half, when George Hadlow intimated that he was going to change his seat. He was asked to keep still, but the advice came too late. Hadlow stepped to one side of the boat, which in a moment was upset, precipitating the party into the water. A heartrending scene followed. The women screamed for help, and the men fought hard to keep themselves afloat.

Only Albert Etherington could swim, but his efforts were hampered by his wife, who clung to him. The youngest member of the party, Richard Stepney, managed to right the boat, and clinging to it with one hand he grasped Mrs. Bristol with the other until she was able to clamber into the boat with him. Henry Bristol kept himself afloat by means of a large empty jar which was in the boat, and he was rescued by a man who put off when he heard the screams for help. By the time he had reached Bristol, however, the other four unfortunate occupants of the boat had sunk.

It was high water at the time, and at the spot where the disaster occurred, off Jackson's Point, there were fully 12ft. of water. Mr. and Mrs. Bristol and the younger Stepney were much exhausted, and they had a miraculous escape.

An inquest was held on the bodies of the drowned on Wednesday, when a verdict of "Death by misadventure" through Hadlow, who weighed 14 st., changing seats in the boat.

Another Boat Disaster.

Another boating fatality occurred near Sittingbourne on Thursday.

George Swan, aged about forty, landlord of the "Globe Inn," Elmley accompanied by a man named William Goodge, sailed to Milton in a boat for a freight of beer and aerated water. When some distance on the journey home Swan turned to go to the assistance of some men in a boat who were stranded. Just at that juncture a squall struck the Elmley boat, and she capsized, throwing the two men into the water. Goodge was saved. But Swan sank, his body being recovered during the afternoon. The deceased was one of the jurors who have investigated the drowning fatality at Elmley on Sunday and the inquest was held at his house. He leaves a wife and five young children. The fatality occurred near the spot of the previous disaster.

Above photo, kindly sent by Paul Prior, who says this may well be a flagon from the Globe that is still laying half buried in 2010 near to the premises.