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Picture source: KJH

The Anchor & Hope was situated on Bower Lane (previously Bower Place). This pub closed in September 2011 and is to be redeveloped as terraced housing. The Anchor & Hope had a long association with fishing and boating on the river Medway which lay just down the hill on the left of the photograph. It was the headquarters of The Maidstone Angling Society in the 1880's at the time of proprietor Edward Avery. Boats of every type were let for hire by the pub in those days.

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Name	Dates	Comments
Paul Knowles	2001/2005
Joan Edi Van den Eede	1990/1993	First visit here in 1990. Owners steve and Sue, they adoted a girl in Romania named Loredana. My last visit was in 1993. total three visits with my own rumanian girl adopted thanks to Sue and Steve