Wateringbury was an early mover amongst the immediately surrounding parishes in subsidising emigration in the 1830s to help relieve poverty with financial assistance being given for emigration to Canada in 1832 and to Australia in 1838.[7]. In l861 Frederick Leney bought the freehold from the Pontifex brothers and renamed it the Phoenix Brewery. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in finance, and a relatively low proportion in hotels and restaurants. These figures show the effect the first world war had on trade. The societies included: an Amicable Benefit Society; the Oddfellows; Boys Brigade and Scouts; horticultural and drama societies. Several of the staff stayed with the firm for many years. Wateringbury Working Mens Club Address: 210 Tonbridge Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, Kent Local Council: Tonbridge and Malling I haven't yet visited this pub, but maybe sometime soon.. Either send them by the contact form or directly to me by email at, In the 50's and 60's that I remember there were eight pubs and one brewery though a few years before there had been an additional Pub that was demolished to make way for the airfield during the second world war, there was also a second brewery. In the second half of the 19th century, Leney became internationally renowned as a breeder of shorthorn cattle with individual specimens reaching astronomical prices (2,000 guineas for a single animal in 1874) at auctions held in the village with exports to the US and New Zealand. Messrs Pontifex remained the freeholders of the brewery until 1861 but by 1843 Charles Leney had acquired a 21 years' lease. Two breweries, the Phoenix Brewery of the Leney family and the Kent Brewery of the Jude and Hanbury families, developed in the village in the 18th century and only closed in the late 20th. Click below to begin your paid subscription. Awesome Inc. theme. In the nineteenth century, Wateringbury is recorded as having several small private boarding schools, and in 1843 a public National School. ", I think we can safely say that Mark's green bottle, embossed with the name. This page was last modified on 10 June 2019, at 10:59. For nearly 150 years the Phoenix Brewery was famous for its Wateringbury ales. This website is yours and you have made it the interest it is by sharing your memories with us all. These are much sought after as collectors' items at flea-markets and antique fairs. School minutes (1843): school rules established. Includes the Kent BreweryJohn Beal Jude 1807-1871 photographKent Brewery advertisementA group of workers from the Kent Brewery, 1909Wateringbury National School, drawing, 1850Wateringbury National School, 1907A class of Wateringbury School boys, c.1915The Phoenix pub on Red HillThe North Pole pub, around the late 1940'sPelican Farm, drawing by X It was in 1778 that John Moore, a periwig maker, in his will left various legacies and directed that the land on which the Phoenix Brewery now stands should be sold to the best purchaser. He was Master of the Mid-Kent Staghounds and while out on November 3rd 1915, with the Cornwallis beagles, his horse stumbled taking a wire fence and threw him heavily to the ground. We will use your email address and any other personal information you provide to us in accordance with our Privacy Policy. JP 2003. First Mortgage Debenture Stock, redeemable at the option of the company at any time after March 31, 1916, at 110, on six months' notice, and secured in the first place on the freehold and leasehold property, and further by a floating charge on the general undertaking. Sierra Leone 2012 Seabirds Of West Africa (4v) Sheet II MNH (new Issue), X-O Manowar # 4 Variant 1:20 Valiant Comics NM, Montserrat 2012 Ducks Sheet (4v) MNH (new Issue). Pall Mall Gazette - Monday 20 January 1896 reported. When Whitbreads finally took over Jude, Hanbury Co. Ltd in 1930 brewing continued at Wateringbury at the Phoenix Brewery and at the Dane John brewery at Canterbury, which Jude, Hanbury & Co. Ltd had taken over from Ash & Co in 1923. Adjacent to the church, Wateringbury Place is the largest house in the village and in medieval times the largest estate. THE FREEHOLD BREWERY, with the messuage or tenement, offices, stores, cellars, , yard, garden and premises belongng thereto, comprising in the whole 1 acre (more or less), and known as the. The Pub was flattened by a bomb in 1942. An assortment of labels from the brewery From the 1930s Pre 1924. The Wateringbury Stream flows into the River Medway just above Bow Bridge. In 1929 one of the managing directors, Mr Percy Jude, retired and went to live in Folkestone. School minutes (1844): first master & mistress appointed, School minutes (1845-48): unfounded allegations against school mistress, School minutes (1849-1851): subversive head. This page was last modified on 10 June 2019, at 11:08. 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Hopping (1894): 3 deaths; strikers in streets. In 1921 the firm expanded the business by paying 20,000 for the Yalding brewery of H.T. The first series was launched in spring 1949 and the second, also on Kent Inn signs, in 1950. Atlanta, Georgia 30328 | 877.481.5750. All the brewing families lived in the village. In 1900 the vicar, Greville Livett, estimated that there had been 3,300 such immigrants including their children. Join now and stay updated with exclusive offers and news. They'd found other references to the event. This larger edition, entitled, Wateringbury In the Steps of George Newman and Beyond, contains 178 printed pages and includes 9, maps and 99 other illustrations of which 25 are in colour. [3] The settlement had a detached 'den', used in autumn to feed pigs on acorns and nuts, in the forested Weald of Kent at Lilly Hoo, which remained a part of the parish for secular matters until the 19th century (and for ecclesiastical matters until the 20th century). 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Pheonix brewery was in use from 1843 to 1981. Courtesy Roy Denison Entry in the Trade Mark Registry Registration No : 28,622 Get In Touch Stay Updated Coming soon In 1927 Whitbread & Co. Ltd acquired the whole of the ordinary share capital of F. Leney & Co., which they then transferred to Jude Hanbury & Co. Ltd in 1929 in exchange for ordinary shares in the latter company. B. Jude, Kent Brewery, Wateringbury, Kent 1875 corner of St John's Lane and Watling Street sold by Michael Bass to George Ash 1878 Jude, Hanbury & Co. 1919 Jude, Hanbury & Co limited liability company . Moved to Canterbury in 1924 after acquiring Ash & Co, and the Wateringbury brewery was sold to the Yalding Soap Co. and was later demolished. It was fixed before leaving the brewery and the user only needed to screw on the end portion, insert the key and the process was completed. Kent. The partners created an authentic pub experience filled with quality craft beer and live music. B. Jude, Kent Brewery, Wateringbury, Kent 1875 corner of St John's Lane and Watling Street sold by Michael Bass to George Ash 1878 Jude, Hanbury & Co. 1919 Jude, Hanbury & Co limited liability company 1923 acquire Ash's East Kent Brewery (East Kent Brewery had been in Sandwich?) After the work was completed, Crow seems to have suffered financial problems for when the brothers Pontifex asked for payment it was not forthcoming. I remember large yellow trucks constantly taking steaming, The Jude Hanbury & Co Brewery at the top of Bow Road seen here as the large building on the right as taken in 1915, Below you can see the Phoenix Brewery on the right as looking up Bow Road. Our first post was 8th November 2008 since when we have had 42,000 different visitors from 107 countries. The purchase price has been fixed at 235,000, to be partly met in the whole of the ordinary and 2,500 of the preference shares. Han tjenestegjorde i organisasjonen i Frankrike og . The Book by Dail Whiting - Click to Purchase a copy, ~~ ~~ Wateringbury Remembered ~~ ~~, Wateringbury School Girls Tennis Photo Taken around 1936, Whitbreads Brewery - Children's Christmas Party 1961/1962. By clicking subscribe, you understand that you are consenting to receive marketing emails from us. The ethnicity was 98.8% white, 0.6% mixed race, 0.5% Asian, 0% black and 0.1% other. RM 2BH36EA - A 1949 miniature metal souvenir pub sign for Whitbread's Brewery. They admitted the error and offered every assistance to the Excise Officers. A Frederick Lenny & Sons ""Phoenix Brewery of Wateringbury"" olive tinted beer bottle, 8ins high. Canons was owned by the Prior and Canons of Leeds until the Reformation. The highest rent that the Leney's had to pay for these pubs was 160 per year for The South Eastern Hotel, Tonbridge and the Swan, West Malling. For its size it is one of the busiest in the country. Brewers Dover, ANTIQUE 18th / 19th CENTURY FOLK-ART PAINTING ENGLISH BREWERY BEER ADVER, 1949 WHITBREAD INN SIGNS METAL 1st SERIES No 31 THE PHOENIX , WATERINGBU, Dapol Leneys Dover Pale Ale Brewery Wagon Limited Edition Number 100 Of, Dapol Leneys Dover Pale Ale Brewery Wagon Limited Edition Number 50 Of 1, 2023 - WorthPoint Corporation | 5 Concourse Parkway NE, Suite 2900. Wateringbury benefited from the work in the period 1740 to 1747 of the Medway Navigation Company (MNC) in making the River Medway navigable above Maidstone, and so available for the transport of bulky cargos. Leney employee of 15 years charged with theft (1869). Housed in a former mortuary, the tap room is beautifully decorated and a warm environment for sharing an evening with friends. To mark his fifty years with the firm a dinner was held at the King's Head Hotel, Wateringbury where he was presented with a silver salver and silver coffee service from the directors and many other gifts from employees and tenants Mr Tapply, a member of the parish council. The resultant publication contained 115 printed pages and included 50.