Royal Oak, Whitfield

• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,931
  26 March 2021     11:59369322
  #1      
  Yesterday afternoon's edition of the wonderful Repair Shop (BBC1) featured the pinball machine from the pub if anyone remembers it. It was the first item and they also showed a couple of the old pictures of the pub from long ago as seen on this site... http://www.dover-kent.com/royal-oak-whitfield.html
  
  I do not remember the pinball machine but I do remember the fish tank in the wall.
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• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 6,025
  26 March 2021     12:39369323
  #2      
  Very interesting Jan
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,109
  26 March 2021     17:54369326
  #3      
  The Royal Oak in River also had a fish tank - I remember the puffer fish...
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• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 6,025
  26 March 2021     18:20369328
  #4      
  Yes it did
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
  • Registered: 10 Nov 2012
  • Posts: 1,829
  26 March 2021     21:29369329
  #5      
  It didnt seem a bad pub,i sometimes used to have a quick half when i popped in to pay the rent on my caravan which i stored on the field next door.I was one of the few that bothered to pay.Some caravans had been there for years and were just falling to bits.I was there when the last two licencees were running it.The last one came along with some great ideas to try and turn it around as a viable business but by then hardly anyone came in and it was just costing them money to run it whatever they tried to do and that was the end of it.
• Pablo

  • Registered: 21 Mar 2018
  • Posts: 614
  27 March 2021     07:01369331
  #6      
  There was an underage drinking problem there for years which put off other local residents. Once a pub gets a bad reputation it’s very hard to change it.
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• Guest 2547

  • Registered: 1 Apr 2018
  • Posts: 2,158
  27 March 2021     07:40369332
  #7      
   Jan Higgins wrote:

  Yesterday afternoon's edition of the wonderful Repair Shop (BBC1) featured the pinball machine from the pub if anyone remembers it. It was the first item and they also showed a couple of the old pictures of the pub from long ago as seen on this site... http://www.dover-kent.com/royal-oak-whitfield.html
  
  I do not remember the pinball machine but I do remember the fish tank in the wall.

  
  
  The range of skills on display in that programme is extremely humbling. 'Wonderful' is a very appropriate adjective.
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• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
  • Posts: 23,948
  27 March 2021     09:05369333
  #8      
  Very talented guys
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