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Farewell party as last pub in village closes
MEREWORTH has been left without a pub after the Queen’s Head closed its doors for the last time.
Landlady Jo Harris has locked
up and left after pulling pints at the venue in Butchers Lane for al- most three years. The grade II listed building,
which has two bars, four bedrooms and a patio, is now for sale with an asking price of £385,000. Villagers packed the pub for a
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farewell Saturday night party be- fore the pub closed the next day. Mrs Harris said she had enjoyed running the pub and being part of village events, especially the an- nual fete. She said: “Thank you to every-
one who has supported us over the last three years. It’s been a roller coaster. We have had a fabulous time and met some wonderful peo- ple and made new friends.” The Queen’s Head was Mere-
worth’s only pub following the clo- sure of the TorringtonArms in The Street about 20 years ago. Resident Pauline Bell said the
pub was the village hub where friends would meet up. It was felt the closure of the Queen’s Head was a very sad day for the village which had already lost another pub, two shops and a post office. The Queen’s Head is for sale freehold, with vacant possession, with agent Sidney Phillips.
Landlady Jo Harris has pulled her final pint at The Queen’s Head pub in Mereworth
‘Successful’ layby changes to remain
MAIDSTONE’S Joint Transporta- tion Board has agreed to make per- manent a series of temporary measures brought in six months ago to prevent anti-social behav- iour by lorry drivers parking in Old Chatham Road, Sandling. The board heard there were still
some issues caused by overnight parking in the layby close to Blue- bells estate, but the traffic manage- ment bollards had been a success. Residents have complained for years about the constant noise from
refrigerated lorries andwaste being dumped in the hedgerows. Resident Barry Stevens told the meeting he had found toilet tissue in his garden where his four-year- old child played, while Doris Even- den said the layby had become a magnet for fly-tippers, with televi- sionsbeingdumpedalongside bot- tles of urine. Work will now be undertaken to improve the path which is shared by pedestrians, horse riders and cy- clists, which bypasses the layby, as
this is unfit for use in its present state. As the path is part of a national
cycle route,KCCis confident of re- ceiving funding so the work can proceed. CllrWendy Hinder said: “It is not perfect, but it has resolved a lot of the problems. The layby is rela- tively free from litter and is no longer being used as a toilet. Any return to its previous state would have been a retrograde step and disastrous for the residents.”
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