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THIS LARGE HOUSE called The Ced

Wincheap Street. At the beginning of this century it was the home of Stephen Williamson
before becoming the offices of the Post Office Telephones. In due course it was taken over
by C. 8 G. Yeoman, who had a large depot at the rear of the property, and in turn became

the headquarters of British Road Services. lt was demolished early in the 19603 prior to the
commencement of the first stage of the ring road, Rheims Way.

   
 

   

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Till: NORMAN CASTLE HOTEL stood adjacent to the Castle Keep in Castle Street; a view c. 1930.
An advertisement for the hotel in 1936 stated that it had ‘Electric Light and Fires
Throughout‘ and ‘Running Water in all Bedr0oms'. Terms were stated as 'moderate'. The

hotel seems to have stopped trading around the start of the last war. The Castle was built in

the reign of William the Conqueror and its keep, the fifth largest in the country, was once
used as a coal store by the local gas company.

 

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_ as it looked in the early part o
this day apart from the row of shops built on land opposite the King's Head Inn and the
erection of Wincheap Garage on the left-hand side beyond the White Horse public house

whose sign can just be seen. The King's Head Inn probably dates from the fifteenth century,
and stands adj

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 to the  (“and now“d._erelict)._ lflonconformist Cemetery.

 
   

AVIEW looking towards Pin Hill from Wincheap Green in e early 196 s. Onlthe left can b
seen the Man of Kent public house which stood on the corner of Worthgate Place. it closed
in 1968 and was partly demolished to make way for the ring road, which also claimed the

houses in Pin Hill. The public house, which was licensed in the latter part of the seventeenth
century, stood close to the site of the Roman Worthgate.

  

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Wincheap, one of the few areas to rema
during two outbreaks of cholera

DAYS NUMB
Kent
Wincheap _“number
budge. which was
prepared for demoliti

ERED: An East A
bus Dases beneath

two”
being
on

INCHEAP, the

ancient city

suburb on the
main A28 to Ashford, is the
subject of the old view
which dates from March,
1955.
An East Kent bus on a city
service to Thaningtoii passes
beneath Wincheap “number
two" railway bridge, which is
being prepared for demolition
(the “number one” bridge,
adjacent to Canterbury East
Station, still survives today).

The Elham Valley line, carried

by this bridge, had closed in
1947.after only 60 years of
service.

The line had been lifted in the
early 1950s and now the metal

over-bridges were being
removed.

Another railway bridge over
tlie River Stoiir was being

taken down at about the same
time.

 

        

The buildings of Canterbury
South Station, only a few
hundred yards further to the
east, survived until the late
1960s. They were near the
entrance to the hospital's
accident centre.

The railway embankments
either side of the abutnients to
the Wincheap Street bridge
would be dug out in the early
1960s and the soil used to form

new embankments for the

nearby ring road, the Rheims
Way.

Houses subsequently appeared _

on the gap to the left and a car
park on the right.

In the late 1960s Cow Lane
(right) was widened in advance
of the construction of
Wincheap Industrial Estate.

Today there is nothing left to
remind us that a railway line
once crossed the road at this
point although closer
examination will reveal many
remnants of the former line at
various locations along its
entire length.

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THE FIItST"':pli0tograph --

dates from about. 1939 and
features: the Canterbury
end -of _Wincheap Street,_
where  it 9,’ meets, " Station
Road ‘E'a'st,’, Wincheap
Green and_.Castle Street. 5

The photographer-,‘- Ted Yeo-
man, is gstankling -with‘ his back
towards St A_,n‘drew Presbyterian
Church and. is looking over‘ at a
row of,,housesvJ_owned by his
father',_'_aiid ,u'n‘cl_e,', _Cha_rles and
George Yeoiifaii. "'_' ~ A

At the-time,"C.&*G. Yeoman ._
were; v_(,ell-'.kn0_fwn. transport,-
cartage contractors and furni-.
ture removers .in. Canterbury ’
and tlie'surroun’(ling district. ,

No I Wincheap Street on the
far i'igl1t,,a-large Regeiicy period
house, ~ is ,the, residence of Mr
Charles Yeoman. To its left is No
2, clearly the oldest house in the-
row and probably‘. timber‘-
framed, ‘witl_1Ian,;l_8th. century‘,
facade.-' » '_ ‘ -

At the time, it wasthe home

year. ’

     

of Miss Godden. Mr'George Yeo~
man lived at. No 3, a mid-

,Victorian three-storey house‘
and an in-fill development (ie a
.liouse built ina, gap between

two existing properties). .
Ifiirtliest left are Nos 4 and 5

Wincheap Street, a pair of early v

19th‘ century liouses,. the homes

of Miss-Me'rrer'and Mr John-

Eyles respectively. Just visible

‘on the left is,th_e Station Hotel,
“run by Mr George Freeman.

Today’, this is better known as
the , Man . of .Kent public house.
Out_ of sight to the right is The
Cedars, a large detached 18th
century house, also owned by
'C.& G. Yeoman and used as their
main office premises. .

The.Cedars and Nos 1 and 2
Wincheap Street were demol—
ished in early 1963, to make way
for Wincheap roundabout and
The Rheims_Way.,No 3, which
was to be retained, was also
pulled_ down. later the same

A.-4*. »a v1‘

OUR old picture dates from the mid 1880s and
was taken at the city end of Wincheap Street
just right of the railway bridge.-

The ancient properties seen here are number 1
to 5 Harris Almshouses, also known as numbers
116 to 120 Wincheap Street in the old '
numbering system. -

The five cottages had been built in 1723 “for five
poor families”.

By the early 1920s, local haulage contractors
C&G Yeoman had purchased the site and
demolished the old cottages.

Later, they constructed a purpose-built depot on
the site.

In due deference to the lost ahnshouses,

      

Yeomans repositioned the old number stones
(one to tive) in the facade of their new building
where they can be seen to this day.

To the right of the Harris Almshouses are three
early 19th century cottages at number 113 to 115

’Wincheap Street.

By the 1920s they had been renumbered 186 to
188.

In the early post-war years, these three
properties were demolished to make way for an
extension to the Yeoman premises.

In 1949, Yeomans was nationalised to become
part of British Road Services.

Today, the depot has become a tyre and exhaust

centre.”v'i_KG 4‘ 3‘ R