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The Street
(Northbourne)
Originally this pub had the title "Horse and Hound" and the earliest reference I
have to that is from the Wingham Division Ale Licence list of 1740.
It was certainly
called the Hare and Hounds in 1843 according to an auction in that year, so must
have changed between those years.
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Information taken from following web address:-
http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.parkinson4/
Poor House May 1843.
A public auction sale at the Hare and Hounds public house Northbourne
sold 20 perches of land together with the Poor House to Mr. Charles
Hannam of Northbourne Court for the sum of £46.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 17 July, 1936.
Northbourne Licence Extension.
The licensee of the "Hare and Hounds," Northbourne, was granted an
extension from 2.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. on August 1st, on the occasion of
sports to be held in aid of the Betteshanger and District Nursing
Association.
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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 07
May, 1937.
Northbourne Extension Refused.
The licensee of the "Hare and Hounds," Northbourne, applied for an
extension from 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. for
sports, to be held on May 17th.
Subt. Webb said that he would have to oppose the application. A
similar application was made last year, and some hours granted, and they
had a little bit of trouble. He was not imputing anything against the
licensee, who conducted his premises in a proper manner. The sports,
however, commenced at 12 noon, and the people who attended the sports
would have left the district by 8 p.m.
The application was refused.
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From the Dover Express, 13
May, 2004.
By LAURA SMITH
Pub puts out smoke.
CLEARING THE AIR: Sue Ralph is introducing a smoking ban at the Hare
and Hounds pub in Northbourne.
Cigarettes in a pub in Northbourne will be stubbed out for good later
this year as the site becomes totally nonsmoking.
Sue Ralph and Tony Wellard have been running the Hare and Hounds pub
in The Street for nearly 16 years and will start to introduce the
smoking ban - one of the first of its kind in east Kent - next month.
From Tuesday June 1, customers will only be able to smoke in the bar
from 10pm onwards - leading up to the full ban that comes into effect on
Tuesday August 31.
Explaining the new policy, publican Sue said: "We're both non-smoking
but we've been here a long time and realised the amount of passive
smoking we've done over the years has probably been harmful to us. Also
it's not pleasant in a small village pub - you may be sitting at a table
and not smoking but the people ten tables away could be and you would be
affected."
"The government has been talking about having totally smoke-free
areas and air cleaning machines in smoking areas of pubs - but in a pub
this old it would be impractical and would destroy the character. We
didn't want to wait for anyone else to ban it."
Before making the changes the duo consulted their customers about the
idea.
Sue said: "We were quite surprised at the level of support we got -
even from smokers.
"A couple of people did disagree with what we're doing, but we feel
strongly that we're moving in the direction we want to move in.
"We want to create a pub where people can come and have a nice meal
and a drink and not have to worry about smoke."
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From the East Kent Mercury, 18
November 2011.
OLD PUB REOPENS
PRESERVING old English pubs is a must in the eyes of Melissa Osbourne,
the new landlady of the "Hare and Hounds" at Northbourne.
The area's newest publican has added her voice to those of some of
the town's landlords who are against big chain pubs like Wetherspoon's
moving to Deal and selling cheap beer.
"We can't lose these traditional English pubs," she said.
"They're becoming extinct and it's such a shame."
She said the big brands like Wethspoon's and supermarkets like Tesco
were "taking over the country."
It's such a shame because people work so hard to keep individual pubs
alive and they're coming and trampling on everything," she added.
The "Hare and Hounds" is open again after closing its doors for one
week while Miss Osbourne moved to the village from Essex.
Miss Osbourne studied forensic biology at Canterbury but said: "I
couldn't work in a lab now. I have to have a conversation with people.
"Luckily the "Hare and Hounds" has always had a fantastic reputation.
"All I need if for people to know we're open again," she said.
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LICENSEE LIST
NETHERSOLE William Canon 1847-78
  
NETHERSOLE N A Mrs 1882+
AMOS Henry 1899+ 
MOAT William 1913+
HARRIS Richard George to 1934-May/1935
 
KIRBY Edward May/1935+
BOARD Major D A 1950+
ELGAR H 1952+
HOBBS Edwin C 1974+
Charrington & Co
WELLARD Tony & RALPH Sue 1988-2004+
OSBORNE Melissa (temporary manager) Oct/ 2011-9/Jan/2012
JOHNSON Debbie 9/Jan/2012+
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From the East Kent Mercury, 10 November, 2011.
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Visit their web site at
www.thehareandhounds.net
From Bagshaw Directory 1847
From the Post Office Directory 1874
From the Kelly's Directory 1878
From the Post Office Directory 1882
From the
Kelly's Directory 1899
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the
Kelly's Directory 1934
Library archives 1974
From the Dover Express
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