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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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