Report - Hosey mine - Kent- April 24

[Doozer]

Nicely done matey, I remember first going in there 5 years back when there was a bar removed from the grill. Definitely a backbreaker to say the least

It was indeed mate, we should arrange something soon 👍

 

[Doozer]

its much easier if u have a helmet on

I dunno about easier but a lot less painful lol

 

[marcman]

?.C.Bushell Watkins & ?

There was a brewery company with very similar name (Bushell, Watkins & Smith I think) in Kent. Their logo also had an eagle with spread wings and your photo shows something like that ?

Yeah, that's definitely right. The logo is from an earlier version of the brewery's name 'B C Bushell, Watkins & Co. Ltd' and would date from between 1897 - 1899:

Bushell, Watkins & Smith Ltd, Black Eagle Brewery, Westerham, Kent.

Brewery founded c.1840. Registered July 1894 as B.C.Bushell & Co. Ltd. with 63 public houses.

Acquired Watkins & Son, Swan Brewery, Hosey Hill, Westerham 1897 and name changed to B C Bushell, Watkins & Co. Ltd. and finally as above when Alfred Smith & Co, of Sevenoaks were acquired in 1899.

 

[Doozer]

Yeah, that's definitely right. The logo is from an earlier version of the brewery's name 'B C Bushell, Watkins & Co. Ltd' and would date from between 1897 - 1899:

Bushell, Watkins & Smith Ltd, Black Eagle Brewery, Westerham, Kent.

Brewery founded c.1840. Registered July 1894 as B.C.Bushell & Co. Ltd. with 63 public houses.

Acquired Watkins & Son, Swan Brewery, Hosey Hill, Westerham 1897 and name changed to B C Bushell, Watkins & Co. Ltd. and finally as above when Alfred Smith & Co, of Sevenoaks were acquired in 1899.

Now I’m wondering whether they used it to store their kegs in 🤔, thanks for the info though mate 👍

 

[wormster]

The old Black Eagle Brewery is opposite the BP Pulse Charging station!!

 

[DaveFM]

How was it 'easy' to gain entry, was this a permission visit? I got in to 2 of them back in 2009 when I was thin enough to squeeze through the bars but no way I'd manage that these days.