I didn't know they also sold flour - I have been in there before and had some lovely fruit and some cob nuts last time they were in season. it is what i call a "proper shop".
Brian Dixon
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the flour from that shop makes good pancakes as well.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Jan - I do remember that clearly, have never tasted better Vegetable Soup !!
With cheese on top and it was absolutely delicious !!
Thank you for bringing back the memory !
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just out of interest which pub was it Jan?
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Here is a photo taken in 2000:
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Jan Higgins
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Sadly now a private house but we kept it going an extra seven years prior to closure.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thanks for the picture Jan, it looks inviting, shame it's no longer an Inn
It does look good - like a proper Pub! Lovely!
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Formerly the Rice Arms?
Audere est facere.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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It was a proper pub, that is why we never made any money, we sold lots of different real ales pub and were in the Camra guide.
Yes Martin, dating from the 1700s it was the Rice Arms then the Ravens, we only added the 'Inn' as a marketing ploy.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Had some good nights in there many years ago after playing cricket against Tilmanstone Ravens.
Audere est facere.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Much earlier the pub was called The Blew Anchor (Blew = Blown, not blue), then in the 1800s the Three Colts and about 1870 when the Rice family (the squires of the village) had a financial interest in it, it became the Three Ravens (which are on the Rice coat of arms). In the 1940s, Henry Rice had the name changed back to the Rice Arms, but in recent times it went back to the Three Ravens. When we first came to the village in the 1970s, the local hunt used to meet there about twice or three times a year, always on Boxing Day.
The Plough & Harrow now is the only pub in the village.
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