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Dog & Gun
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Date of photo: 2019 |
Picture source: Andy Oneup |
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The Dog & Gun was situated on Boxley
Road.
This pub closed in July 2019. |
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Some forty years ago this pub was a
frequent meeting place for the local CAMRA branch. The landlord at the time
was a member of the chart topping group, Chicory Tip, a local group who had
a No.1 hit with ‘Son of your Father’. A gold disc was displayed in the bar.
A while later, a change of landlord and the dimly lit bar was stripped of
it’s heavy maroon curtains and dark wallpaper, and brightened up. It was not
the same. I return in June this year for a farewell drink one Sunday
afternoon and to listen to a tribute band, the Relics. Now being converted
into flats. |
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Paul Narramore
(August 2019) |
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Barry Mayger was the local lad who
achieved fame as one of the founders of the group Chicory Tip, the only
group from Maidstone to get to the very top. (#1 UK hit in 1972, Son off My
Father, the first hit to feature a Moog synthesiser). Barry ran it for many
years, but eventually moved to Portugal, where he died in January 2020. |
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Paul Rusling,
ex-Radio Caroline DJ (September 2020) |
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My grandparents Ron & Wyn Yates ran
this pub in the sixties. The local Buffaloes used to meet in the upstairs
meeting room complete with a hatch in the door & buffalo horns hanging on
the wall. |
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John Foster (September 2021) |
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Ian McIver |
1986/1988 |
Myself, Andy, Billy, Jane & Kay
lived 4 doors down at 195. We still see each other and have very fond
memories. Kay/Barry landlords and Shane the Alsatian dog. We returned a
few years ago for a reunion. So disappointed that it was one open area
rather than the 2 bars as we remembered. My mate Lofty was also hanging
around |
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Date of photo: 2019 |
Picture source: Andy Oneup |
