The Royal Fountain Hotel, Bluetown Sheerness.

[kyn]

this picture shows the Hotel as it was in 1830, the building as a whole hasn't changed although it has been converted into flats  :  Sheerness pier starts on the left of this picture and in the background you can see the dockyard wall.

[Trev]

Found a pic, that's the extent of my knowledge.  ;)

[kyn]

Mmmm do like these old pics    Thanks Trev!

A nearly then and now pic  ;)

[jillmason7]

Wow thats a great picture. I took nearly the exact same picture this past week when I was visiting!!

Funny!

-Jill

[rdfb2]

some great then and now pics.

[Little Nell]

Lovely to see old photos.  The Fountain Hotel was where the body of James Anthony Higho (a distant relative of my husband) was taken after he drowned whilst bathing on a day trip to Sheerness.  It's also where they held the inquest in July 1850 with the jury recommending that a fence be erected around the creek where he'd died.

[busyglen]

Gosh, that brings back memories!

In the early 1960's my husband (my boyfriend as he was then) and I, occasionally used to go there with four friends on a Saturday evening for a drink.  I believe Alf Shepherd was mine host at that time.  What used to fascinate me was the chair that was in the saloon bar, and was `supposed' to be the one that Lord Nelson had sat in. I was quite upset to find out later that in fact he died before the Royal Fountain Hotel was built in 1812.   Mind you, I suppose he may have sat in that chair elsewhere, and it was acquired by the FH...we shall never know.    There was also a ships wheel on the ceiling with lights attached, which I thought was `different' in those days.

I also have a memory of going there for a family lunch.  It was very antiquated, but the food was good.

Shame it ended up as flats. :(