In nightclub which reopened
just weeks_aqo has suddenly and
unexpectedlyfclosed

i by Bill Day 0

=bday@thekmgroup.co.uk

was shrouded in mystery this week;

i The club at Bridge has not re-opened for

business .sinc_e closing its doors /to custom-
ers on Saturday. . ' '

Owner Peter Malkin and his partner‘

Kate relaunched the club last months as
a quality restaurant afterspending more
than £150,000 on a major facelift of the,17th
century property. 1 r _

But a building that -once attracted late
night revellers" and throbbed to the live.

r . THE future of Bridge Place CouI1try.Club_ 7

 
 
 

sound of Manfred Mann and the Moody
-Blues has fallen silent, p ' '

For many years Bridge Place was the only
nightclub in the district.

‘ But business waned as tasteschanged»

and Mr Malkin, 66, drew on his Vast expe-

' 0 rience of restoring historic buildings to

bring his talents to bear the club. -
At the re-opeeninglast -month, Mr Malkin
saidit would he a “really fine restaurant”

-and he was planning to refurbish the dance

floor later this year. _ _

‘ “Although it will be top quality, it Wo_n’t
be a snooty sort of atmosphere but for peo-
ple who appreciate good food,” he said.

Mr Malkin hired top chef Nick Holt but '
~ he has not fired-up his kitchen since the
- weekend. i

This weelt'l\/Ir Malkin said he had no com-

-ment to make over the closure.

£3\a«r~' N7 933.-—»“7*‘ $5; 0

0* :2. Owner whospent £150,000on refit refuses to comment 

 

 

Iowner Peter Malkrn and partner Kate -pictured
prior to the re-opening of Bridge Place Country


    

Saxon haul at on! burial ground 

A TREA_SURE..trove ..
believed-to be worth , 7
thousands of poundsshas
been found. - = ‘ -

a A. cloth bag containing .
silver coins dating back to a -
Anglo-Saxon. times was one u '

of several finds at Bridge.

Dr Paul Wilkinsozfs team
of iarchaeologists -first
fouiid.=aii‘_._Anglo-Saxon
spear at the prehistoric
 ‘Hill site. Within a
week, an A1addin’s Cave of
treasures had been found

_at the seventh century
"chalk burial "ground on

land belonging to Vanessa -
McDonald, of Broxhill

- House, Upper Hardres.
This Week British Museum -
specialists were examining -

the product of ‘one-of the " -

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- ;.*j_|1'_r .[:f_iai_u:| tw§|_kinso-n’- with"-,~a"'_,vaIble A.ng.!'o-Saxon qoIdJp'enda t" 

most signifieanttldigs ever
 out in east Kent. _

- The artefacts collected

included gold pendants,

7 glass and amber beads,

buckles, knives, spears,
scissors, cowrie shells and
decorated pottery, '

An item of glasswearm-g 1'

_'no largerthan a man’s_
hand,‘ calledapalm cup, .

is believed to be one of '
only three such cups in
the world. A gold pendant
found on site is believed . _
to significantly valuable,

__-according to Dr Wilkinson,
director of the Kent

Archaeological Field School
from Faversham. ' a

The collection. of silver
coins, found beneath the
skeleton‘ of a woman,

' is being valued by as

‘ Neame, said: “When

- “The Whole exercise has-

 

 

aithe do in

com-ni1:ittee of the British
-M:  The site contained
11‘g1javes, some of the dead; 
femé1e;" _ _ i  
Mrs McDonald, whose late 9 _
.father"'was farmer Richard ‘ i

 

they picked "up the silver _
coins, found underneath a‘
womarfs skeleton, the-cloth
bag disintegrated.

been fascinating, all of the
discoveries found fairly _ ,
close to the surface despite
the age of the a1'tefacts.’?

Dr Wilkinson’s team went _
Bridge to investigate

the site that had

always appeared as a
hexagon-shape on aerial
photographs. ' '

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