A COUPLE from
Patrixbourne are
hoping Memories
readers will help
th em u n c 0 v e r
information about
the old tollgate cot-
tage that once stood
opposite the Gate
Inn in New Dover
Road, Canterbury.
Pensioners Reginald
and Gwendolyn
Brickenden, who live at
Bifrons Gardens,
remember that the build-
ing — known affection-
ately as the bungalow —
was standing at the
beginning of this century,
but think it must have
been demolished some
time before World War H.
Mr Brickenden’s par-
ents lived there for many
years before they moved

over the road to take over
the Gate lrm.

 

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An industrious couple,
Charles and May
Brickenden ran the busy
pub, kept pigs and
chickens and brought up
a family of 16 children.
And Mr Brickenden still
managed to make and sell
wattle hurdles.

The old gentleman is
pictured standing beside
his hurdles stacked in
front of the stable, while
his wife is in the pub
doorway.

The couple retired from
The Gate in 1927 after
running it for 42 years and
spent their latter years in
the house shown next
door — then 60 Old Dover
Road.

, As the youngest of the
16 children, Reginald was
born at The Gate Inn, but
can remember at least
three other families living
in the tollgate cottage
before it was pulled
down.