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Date of photo: c1990	Picture source: Tim Havill
The Mounted Rifleman was situated on Luddenham Road, Luddenham, a tiny hamlet just outside Faversham, Kent. I believe the pub closed in the early 1990s. When it closed there was an outcry, with news of the closure making regional TV news. The pub had been in the hands of the same family for well over 100 years and had not been touched probably in a hundred. If ever you look at an old film and there is a scene in a pub, the pub usually has basic lino on the floors and no decoration, this pub was the same. When you went in for a drink the (by now) elderly landlord would load the glasses onto a tray and dissapear into the cellar where all the drinks were drawn straight off the barrel. In the early nineties the pub became too much for him and having, as far as I know no family who wanted to take the pub over reverted back to the brewery, there were a number of interested parties but with a large number of planning restrictions on developing or extending the pub, interest waned with the pub being sold off as a private dwelling. Indeed the pub is still missed and still spoken about in the Faversham area.
Source: Andy Johnson
Further Abroad - Where The Other Half Lives (1994) by Jonathan Meades. Footage of The Mounted Rifleman at 4' 11".
Colin (August 2014)
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Name	Dates	Comments
Steve Calverley	1972/1976	I used to be a customer, it was run by Bob, Norman, and Normans wife. All orders had to be brought up from the cellar on a tray as there was only a serving hatch sized bar that opened into their kitchen, it was glorious on Sundays as you could watch and smell Normans wife preparing their Sunday roast.We often had dart matches there against the Dover Castle Teynham. the room was packed exept for the area around the open fire.

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Picture source: Michael Croxford
Picture source: Michael Croxford
Picture source: Michael Croxford
Rear of Mounted Rifleman, c1990	Picture source: Tim Havill
Date of photo: c1990	Picture source: Tim Havil