Looking east towards town with Crown Hotel on the right opposite the Station. Notice the sign warning motorists they are approaching a School
Reference: 0006
1897 was the year that Ben Bushell bought and closed the Swan Brewery at the bottom of Hosey Hill, so this compliment slip will date from before that time. At that point the Black Eagle Brewery took on the trading style of Bushell, Watkins and Co., though William Watkins did not stay very long. On ...
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This photograph taken circa 1891 shows the two ‘Darenth Cottages’ attached to the Old House Inn on the edge of Quebec Square. Photographic evidence has these cottages still extant after the first World War, but gone by the early 1930s when the resultant vacant land was absorbed by Harry Langridge’s ‘Darenth Nursery’
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It is interesting to note that even in 1890, local nurseryman Arthur Jeffkins was claiming Darenth Nursery to be the oldest in the district, being over 100 years old then!
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