From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 5 November, 1965.

From haulier to hotelier - and back again.

Recently returned to East Kent after nine years absence, are Philip and Joan Prebble and their young son Christopher.

They first came to Eythorne in 1946, where they started the Eythorne Haulage concern, but in 1956 the urge to travel took them to Nigeria, where Phil was general manager of a property company. The children stayed behind in England, and in 1958 family ties brought them home again.

When they came back to England they went into the hotel business and for many years have run the Norwood Hotel SE23 - but recently East Kent has lured them again and the family are now hosts at the Abbott's Fireside, the oldest hostelry in Elham.

One of the most picturesque and historic houses in the village, particularly rich in carved woodwork both inside and out, it was built as in Inn in 1480 (so this article said) and sheltered Charles II on one of his clandestine visits to England before the restoration in 1660.

Now it is once again licensed and should soon become a byword for good living.