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30 High Street
Shoreham
01959 522800
https://whatpub.com/two-brewers
Above photo, circa 1935, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo July 1992, kindly sent by Philip Dymott. |
Above photo, July 2013, kindly submitted by Joe Neary. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
Above sign 1960s. |
Situated opposite the village hall.
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From the
https://shorehamkenthistory.weebly.com/the-two-brewers.html accessed
6 March 2023.
Text by James Saynor
This former pub – diagonally across the road from the
Village Hall – closed in March 2019 but you can still see its old name boldly
incised on the front wall. It was built in the 1870s on the site of two
demolished cottages. Albert Walkling was the landlord in 1881 and James
Santer, a former policeman, was in charge ten years later. When he died
in 1911, his wife Harriet, son James and daughter-in-law Rebecca took
over until the early 1920s.
They were succeeded by Mr and Mrs Foster. Their family name was
appropriate as they took in at least seven evacuee children during the
Second World War. By this stage, there was a tea terrace and three bars
supplied by the Style & Winch brewery.
“Ordinary workers frequented the Public [Bar], while visitors and
middle-class business owners gravitated to the Saloon, as did any
spruced-up male out to impress a girlfriend or spouse,” recalled one of
the evacuees. “The Private Bar was not greatly used, its most likely
patrons being the squire or the vicar, or a special friend of the
publican.”
Mrs Foster had previously been a cook at a large country house, so
meals served in the Saloon were of high quality, despite wartime
privations. Mr Foster had a market garden, small orchard and poultry
farm on land at the back. He died early in the war and Mrs Foster gave
up the tenancy in 1942.
High Street, looking north
Later, the highly industrious Ernest Dowdy took over. Dowdy was clerk
to the parish council for 25 years and had been one of the founders of
the Village Players, chairman of the football club, and taken part in
many other village activities. He had also managed a haulage business, a
milk round and collected for a friendly society. He left the pub in 1951
and moved to Sevenoaks, telling the local paper he needed a fortnight’s
holiday – the first “for a very long time”. |
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From the
https://www.kentlive.news By Lauren MacDougall, 6 November 2019.
Kent’s cosiest pubs with gorgeous log fires that will shield you from the cold.
These stunning pubs come with crackling fires, beautiful interiors and tasty food.
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The Two Brewers.
The Two Brewers, Shoreham.
Where : 30 High St, Shoreham, Sevenoaks TN14 7TD.
What : This chocolate box pub is surrounded by fantastic countryside
popular with locals for brisk winter walks.
It's the perfect spot to head to after enduring the freezing
temperatures outside for a hearty meal or a warming tipple.
There are lovely comfy seats surrounding a warming log fire that will
really get you toasty.
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From an email received, 22 February 2022. My father George W. Delo was
the landlord at the "Two Brewers" Shoreham Kent from September 1953 to
July 1956, when he moved to the "Unicorn,"
Marden. The "Two Brewers" was a Style & Winch public house.
At that time the ground floor was made up of a Public bar, a very
small Saloon bar, and an unused room which we used occasionally as an
extension to our living quarters. Our ground floor living area was a
small kitchen and a sitting room at the back of the building. Upstairs
there were four bedrooms and a bathroom. There was a rear garden which
contained a large wooden club room with a table tennis table. There was
a very small parking area, enough for about four cars.
Walking through the village from the railway station in the
mid-nineteen fifties, the first public house one came to was the "George
Inn," a very old timber structure. Next was the "Rising
Sun," which appeared to be made from a terrace of cottages, facing
the bridge over the river Darenth. Over the bridge a short distance on
the left-hand side one came to the "King’s
Arms," I believe this was a Watney’s pub. The next pub was the "Royal
Oak." A Whitbread house which stood on the right hand corner of a T
junction. Turning right about a couple of hundred yards on stood the
"Two Brewers" on the right hand side opposite the village hall and
green. Further along the road on the same side, and not far from the end
of the village, was the "Crown."
D Delo. |
LICENSEE LIST
WALKLING Albert 1881+ (age 37 in 1881 )
SANTER James 1901-11 dec'd (age 64 in 1901)
SANTER Harriet 1911-20s
FOSTER Mr & Mrs 1920s-42+
DOWDY Ernest to 1951
DELO George W Sept/1953-July/56
Census
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