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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2022 21:49:52 GMT
I'm guessing you mean in the old pre-fabs. I remember those well (not in Barming, though). Where I grew up there were whole estates of them. 20 years ago there were still some in Strood - not been up there since, but they might still be there. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2022 6:39:29 GMT
As a kid I was an original resident of the Beverley Estate, albeit on Heath Road which was the last bit that was built. The year 1965. The Rede Wood build had just been started at this time. Do you remember the private school - Barming Place, I think it was called? There was a path from the school to the Tonbridge Road which ran past our garden - all overgrown by the time we got there (78). I was in what I thought was our garden once, cutting back the undergrowth, but I must have strayed onto the path (it ws so overgrown, you couldn't tell), when a voice yelled at me "this is MY garden!". I nearly had a heart attack! Vaguely in the innermost memory banks. Something to do with a founding meeting of the SDP I visited Barming Place (the school building) in 1981. I seem to recall that the Beverley Estate was built around it. Access from Abingdon Road. Lovely old Georgian House built in 1768 with an outdoor swimming pool. I imagine the original is long gone now. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 4:13:02 GMT
Not a pub in Maidstone but part of Stones history,the Monks Head,Snodland has closed down. The Monks head was the pub to go to before our matches with the Snoddies and was the pub where PBB and several supporters,including me,decided to sack Jason Lillis ,a decision made before the game and carried out afterwards at the Freemasons Arms which is now Snodland's only pub left.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 6:44:31 GMT
I’m glad the decision to remove an employee’s livelihood was taken in such a considered and professional manner!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 10:48:21 GMT
I’m glad the decision to remove an employee’s livelihood was taken in such a considered and professional manner! Hardly his livelihood as he was earning shedloads away from football. It was a full 4 pint discussion following some very inadequate performances and had we beaten the Snoddies it may have been delayed but we didn't and he had to go. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 13:30:58 GMT
I’m glad the decision to remove an employee’s livelihood was taken in such a considered and professional manner! Hardly his livelihood as he was earning shedloads away from football. It was a full 4 pint discussion following some very inadequate performances and had we beaten the Snoddies it may have been delayed but we didn't and he had to go. Perhaps you should have a pint or three with Hak before the next game? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 13:38:50 GMT
Do you remember the private school - Barming Place, I think it was called? There was a path from the school to the Tonbridge Road which ran past our garden - all overgrown by the time we got there (78). I was in what I thought was our garden once, cutting back the undergrowth, but I must have strayed onto the path (it ws so overgrown, you couldn't tell), when a voice yelled at me "this is MY garden!". I nearly had a heart attack! Vaguely in the innermost memory banks. Something to do with a founding meeting of the SDP I visited Barming Place (the school building) in 1981. I seem to recall that the Beverley Estate was built around it. Access from Abingdon Road. Lovely old Georgian House built in 1768 with an outdoor swimming pool. I imagine the original is long gone now. I think it's still there, but is a private residence now. It was/is very oddly located - you could live for years on that estate and not know it was there (as indeed I did!). I knew there had been something there, of course, because of the path. But it was so overgrown that I assumed that whatever it had originally led to has gone (hence my shock when shouted at by the owner!). Even when I knew it was there, it was still bloody hard to find - almost as if they didn't want anyone to know they were there. I often wondered what it must have been like when the estate was built - to go from being a grand house in the middle of fields and orchards, to being surrounded by houses. But presumably the original owners made a packet out of selling their land to the developers, so that must have eased the pain... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 14:52:23 GMT
Hardly his livelihood as he was earning shedloads away from football. It was a full 4 pint discussion following some very inadequate performances and had we beaten the Snoddies it may have been delayed but we didn't and he had to go. Perhaps you should have a pint or three with Hak before the next game? Got no problem with Hak,in fact I would keep him regardless of results as replacing him would be difficult,time consuming and expensive and we all remember the disastrous knee jerk reaction to the last sacking of a manager. As for Lillis this was in the day when 80% of our current support didn't even know,or care,that we existed. They were different times,times when the supporters had a genuine influence on club affairs whereas today we are just viewed as pound notes. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 16:47:56 GMT
Hardly his livelihood as he was earning shedloads away from football. It was a full 4 pint discussion following some very inadequate performances and had we beaten the Snoddies it may have been delayed but we didn't and he had to go. Perhaps you should have a pint or three with Hak before the next game? Seems to me that that is probably the way Boris ran cabinet meetings 🙄 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2022 16:52:12 GMT
Perhaps you should have a pint or three with Hak before the next game? Seems to me that that is probably the way Boris ran cabinet meetings 🙄 I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2022 16:02:53 GMT
Not a pub in Maidstone but it may be of interest to our very own Sennockian. The Spoons pub in Sevenoaks named after our South African buddy is up for sale as one of 32 spoons pubs no longer required by the company .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2022 11:54:42 GMT
Such a lovely old pub too! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2022 20:36:28 GMT
A very strange 'trip' down memory lane - including the unexpected sentence "with famous guests including... celebrity football fan The Wealdstone Raider"! I met the current Mrs JDL in Spoons... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2022 22:16:28 GMT
If ever there was a condemnation of the post-war modernist attitude of 'old bad, new good' it's this:  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2022 17:28:12 GMT
It looks even worse now!
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