Plough, Dartford

The Plough dated originally from 1869 and was rebuilt in 1932. It stood to the south of the town centre until its demolition in around 2019. The archive photographs (thanks to www.dover-uk.com for sharing) suggest that at that time the pub was part of the tied estate of Maidstone brewers Style & Winch. It had previously belonged to Dartford brewer Kidd's.

Later it was part of the Courage empire and in the early 1970s your correspondent remembers a charity night attended by Bobby Moore and two other players from West Ham United. The landlord at the time, Malcolm Pyke, had been a West Ham player in the 1950s and later played for Dartford FC.

Later the pub was sold to Greene King, who carried out extensive modernisation, but the east side of Lowfield Street was badly affected by planning blight in the early years of the 21st century and this probably led to the pub's closure in 2008. It stood boarded up and forlorn-looking for quite some time before its demolition.