Dickens Inn, Gravesend, Kent

Picture source: Tom Baines

The Dickens Inn was situated at 134 Rochester Road. This pub closed in 1988, at which time it was known as The Colonial. This pub has now been demolished and replaced by flats.

Source: Gill Slade

To the local residents and the well established gypsy family's it was one of the best public houses in South East of England horse dealing every week it was visit from Gypsy community as far as Wales and Doncaster ete it was place of men and women would meet and marriege yes you had your pub fights that was every were but the dickens pub is still talked about today among the gypsy and Jewish community but the police wanted to shut it down just because of my people and now flats are there and the police are there two or three times a week drugs and prostitution when they took the pub away they took a chunk of history and the importance of the community same as the Marcus retreat

Mark B (July 2021)

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