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AROUND
THE PUBS OF SHEPPEY IN 1969
By Mrs Babs
Traverse
After
refreshing himself at the Royal
Fountain, the Jolly Sailor
carrying the emblem Red Lion,
proceeded up the Admirals Walk
to the Railway Hotel.
He met a True Briton outside the Victory
and Britannia and the Belle
and Lion prevented him, due to a touch of the Sun,
acting the Goat in the Brewery Tap.
On
the way to the Old House At Home,
he saw a Crown in a Mechanic’s
Arms.
At
the Castle he saluted the Queen
and told them he was attached to the Nore
command.
They
all then proceeded to have a Royal
look at the Seaview where the
Napier said that Victoria had lost many patriotic men at the battle of the Heights
of Alma, including a British
Admiral who was a Man of Kent
and the Hero of the Crimea
who had died in his Blacksmiths
Arms.
“Ah!
Playa, here I come, the Ship
on Shore is my next Waterloo,”
he said and from the Beach saw
the Highlanders presenting the Kings
Arms to the British Queen.
“I
can get lodgings,” he said on the Island
at the Crooked Billet,
although I prefer staying in a Castle
watching a Plough in a field
around a Wheatsheaf. From Bay View
swimming towards Harty Ferry,
a Seahorse wearing a Rose and Crown was seen in Warden
Bay.
Remarking
at the Halfway House that he
had seen a Greyhound carrying
Harps, he said, “What an Oddfellow
it looked.”
Before
rejoining his Ship to sail
around the Globe via the Medway,
he expressed a Hope that he
could present a Rose to Queen Phillipa at the Castle
and then spend his last night ashore at the Old House at Home dreaming how long it would be before he was back
again on leave and safe in his Ordinance
Arms.
About
the Island Clubs Mrs Traverse says:
“Victoria, a very
strong Conservative, wanted
to visit Eastchurch via Sheerness East and Minster.
An Ex-Serviceman being
Co-operative presented an Ivy
Leaf to her at the Literary
and Social evening at Queenborough”.
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