CAPEL HISTORY TRAIL 

No. 3 - The King's Head pub

The former King's Head pub building is probably the saddest loss and now certainly greatest eyesore in Five Oak  Green. Believed to have been first opened in 1823, it has been closed since 2017 and damaged by fire in 2019. 

The photographs above and below probably date from the 1920s. The one above showing that it was at that point operated by Style and Winch Limited who were a brewer formed by the merger of the A F Style and Company brewery of Maidstone with the Edwards Winch and Sons brewery of Chatham in 1899. This created a business with 365 public houses. Style and Winch were themselves taken over by Barclay, Perkins and Company in 1929 who operated 600 pubs. 

The image below reveals that the brewery ownership had changed by the time this postcard photograph was taken although it is difficult to make out the new name on the front of the building.

The photograph below shows the building had been painted white probably at some point in the 1930s  

The picture below was taken in 2011.