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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1752-

Red Lion

Latest 1753

Address unknown

Lydden

 

I know nothing of this pub apart from the two adverts in the early 1750s. It would be nice to know whether the house is still standing today, and even whether it is still one of the two pubs, with changed name, as seen today, but it was obviously superfluous to requirements around that time. As yet I don't know when it was eventually sold, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in it as it seems to have been on the market for nearly a year. Perhaps it is now the "Hope", time will tell.

 

From the Kentish Post or Canterbury News-Letter, June 27 to July 4, 1752. Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.

Advert: To be Sold, a large Public House known by the Sign of the Red Lion in the Parish of Lydden, near Dover.

 

From the Kentish Post or Canterbury News-Letter, May 5-9, 1753. Kindly sent from Alec Hasenson.

Advert: To be sold, the Red Lyon at Lydden. Inquire of Stephen Pilcher at the House aforesaid.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

PILCHER Stephen 1753

 

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