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[grandarog]

Thanks Cat .Never thought my Postcard would have brought forth all that info. I thought the changes were a bit drastic.Completely fooled me  I didn't realise was 2 buildings involved.

[John Walker]

Some interesting facts coming out - good stuff

[pete.mason]

thanks for Merry Boys info CAT

[John Walker]

[CAT]

Could it be Marden John Walker?

Pete. The present Merry Boys pub was known as the Mitre at least until 1930 where it still has a landlord recorded in the Post Office Directory as Rt Fredk Mumbray. However, the original Merry Boys pub still has a landlord recorded in 1938 Post Office Directory as Jas E. Elliott, which would assume it must have changed after 1938. However, looking at period maps reveals the original Merry boys pub is shown as Merry Boys Cottages in 1961, and The Mitre changing to the Merry Boys on the 1938 O.S. map. From all this I would assume it happened sometime between 1937 and 1938. 

[John Walker]

Not Biddenden Pete.


This village hasn't got an amazing history as far as I can find.  However, it has had three plane crashes and a train crash.

[pete.mason]

Biddenden?  CAT any idea of when the Merry Boys moved? It was on the present site in the early '70s

[CAT]

Possibly resolved the issue regards The Merry Boys, East Peckham. The first Google Street View pic of the pub, though today called 'The Merry Boys', was originally called 'The Mitre'. The old pic entitled 'The Merry Boys' is the original pub of that name located on Addlestone Road, East Peckham and is now a private dwelling. When this closed the licence and name was transferred to the present building. Compare this street view with the old pic of The Merry Boys, which will answer the issue about rising/falling land levels next to the present pub.

Wealden village John Walker?

[John Walker]

Intersting photo of Merry Boys Grandarog - I wonder why the front area was lowered to quite such an extent?


KeithG - Not Sturry - head West South West quite a bit

[grandarog]

The Merry Boys facade has certainly changed over the years .Also looks as though the surrounding ground has been lowered considerably.

[KeithG]

Sturry.....Just before the railway crossing?

[John Walker]

Thank you Pete,


Next one


Where is this?


Clues later if required ...

[pete.mason]

Well done sir!! I'm amazed it is still trading, used to be a strange place way back, landlady watching a portable Tv on the bar, begrudgingly serving, barred anyone (ie most) for swearing & that meant from damn & blast upwards.  All yours

[John Walker]

At last!      The Merry Boys, East Peckham. 


If I'd had a pint at each pub I checked, I'd be flat on my back for days ........

[pete.mason]

Dialling code is 01622, on a river