New Inn, Gravesend

Ex-Whitbread house in the centre of town. Formerly a coaching inn but now much reduced in size. As a former GBG regular, it would benefit considerably from the re-introduction of real ale.

Licence surrendered in February 2016 following a number of breaches of conditions.

Currently (11/17) trading as a vaperie. A knight in shining armour is needed to restore this pub to its former glory!

Update 12/23. Alas the knight never arrived. The building 'went on fire' in May 2022 and was completely destroyed. An electrical fault was cited as a possible cause of the fire, but Gravesend has plenty of form as regards spontaneous combustion and there are many who suspect that this was yet another case of arson. The blackened ruins remain for all to admire, which reflects very badly on the town.

The New Inn had begun life in 1791 as a coaching inn. Unusually for the area, it is recorded as having being part of the tied estate of Faversham brewers Rigden's Brewery, and until the building came into the hands of vapesters in 2016, two etched windows were reminders of its past supplier (see photo). The pub later became a Fremlin's house, probably in 1949, after a succession of takeovers. Fremlins were in turn swallowed by giant combine Whitbread's in 1972 but customers continued to enjoy Fremlins beers until Whitbread's took the decision to close the Faversham Brewery in 1990. Later still the pub traded as 'Coyotte Ugly', after an early 21st century film, the laughable mis-spelling of the film's title aptly reflecting the pub's decline.

A much-missed street corner pub, which for years served some of the best ales in Gravesend.