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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1927

Aylesham Hotel

Latest unknown

Aylesham

 

At present I have no idea what this hotel was, or indeed whether it was ever built, the only information I know about is as below.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 21 January, 1927.

AYLESHAM HOTEL SITE

At Canterbury, on January 8th, the hotel site at Aylesham, was sold by Messrs Honeyball and Finn for £3,500. there was keen bidding, and an undertaking was given that no other licensed premises would be allowed within the 600 acres of the township for two years. A licensee will have to be obtained from the Magistrates. The purchasers are stated to be Messrs. Judge, Hanbury and Co. Ltd.

 

From an email received 26 October, 2012

Hello Paul;

I too have never heard mention of the ‘Aylesham Hotel' in all my association with that village since the 1950s. The report which you have placed on the Aylesham page merely tells of the ‘hotel site' in Aylesham being auctioned. I am fairly sure that this ‘site' is where the Greyhound was built. Many of the reports from the early days on the Greyhound page refer to it as ‘the Hotel' and, judging by the size of it, the intention was probably always that it would be a hotel. For a mere public house, The "Greyhound" was enormous and many often wondered why it was so big.

Why was it never used as a hotel? It might well have been for a brief period in the very early days but it would soon have lost its appeal. No one in their right mind, in the early days, would have considered overnighting in Aylesham, such was its reputation. Certainly not strangers or people with no contacts/relatives in the village.

Stuart Eaton
 

 

I too am beginning to think this was indeed the plot for the "Greyhound."

 

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