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ALBION INN 40 St Peters Road Broadstairs Kent CT10 2AP 01843 602904 11-11; 12-10.30 Sun Unknown Real Ale (H) Inn between Broadstairs & St. Peters which was built around 1860. Is known locally as the ‘Little Albion’ to distinguish it from the town’s Albion Hotel. It occupies the site of a old inn of the same name. Although much altered over the years it still is a cosy little pub.
BARNABY RUDGE 52 Albion Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 2UR 01843 867775 APH No Real Ale This comfortable town pub named after a Dickens novel, which was partly, wrote in the nearby Archway house. The pub started life in 1830 as the British Tar and was the George by 1849. It gained its present title in the late 60’s. It had a major refit in 2001 designed to attract a younger cliental.
BALLARDS COFFEE LOUNGE & BAR Royal Albion Hotel Albion Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1LU 01843 869895 APH Courage Directors (H) Shepherd Neame Master Brew Bitter (H) Guest Beer (H) Hotel Bar open to the public, which recently moved into the large function room area and a coffee lounge added. It still retains is cosy atmosphere. Garden over-looks the main bay and the English Channel. Opening times in the Summer may vary
BARMORAL WINE BAR (Formerly known as BOMBERS) 27 Albion Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1LU 01843 865327 Contact Pub for Opening Times No Real Ale This pub was formerly the tap of the sizeable 1850-built Balmoral Hotel. When it lost its hotel functions in 1946, the rooms were let out and the tap becoming the Barmoral Bar. The Book and Gem shops next door were originally the hotel's dinning room while the public gardens opposite were the bar’s tea garden. It changes its name in late 90’s and became a keg only pseudo-modern pub. A recent change of owner has renamed the bar back to the original name.
BRADSTOW MILL 125 High Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1NQ 01843 861108 APH Webster's Yorkshire Bitter (H) Lively pub with a Victorian exterior and an interior devised in the late 70s by Lynnard designer, David Cutmore, to look like the inside of a 15th century windmill. This has only been altered slightly over the years, but is still worth a visit. It is named after the windmill that stood at the rear of the building until 1908. Bradstow is the Anglo-Saxon name for Broadstairs, meaning 'broad place'. A Thorley Tavern
CHARLES DICKENS Victoria Parade Broadstairs Kent CT10 1QS 01843 869865 APH Courage Directors (H) Morland Old Speckled Hen (H) Wadworth 6X (H) This bar is housed in a building over 200 years old. It came to fame around c1880 as Nuckells Assembly Rooms, an upper crust entertainment venue. It lasted until the first world war when they were converted into Anderson's café. It became a pub in the late 60's. Upstairs restaurant affords good views across Viking Bay & the English Channel.
CRAMPTONS (formerly the Railway Tavern) 139 High Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1NG 01843 860468 APH Webster's Yorkshire Bitter (H) This pub, built in 1865, opposite the station has recently been completely reconstructed and refurbished. It now boasts a centre bar area and large conservatory. It is named after famous engineer Thomas Crampton, who built the nearby water tower and worked for Great Western Railway, keeping the railway connection alive. A Thorley Tavern.
DAVID COPPERFIELD Westwood Road Broadstairs Kent CT10 2NN 01843 869570 APH No Real Ale (H) Broadstairs' newest pub, a Brewers Fayre outlet, opened in March 2002 by the ASDA Superstore. Usual Brewers Fayre style and decor.
DOLPHIN 55 Albion Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1NE 01843 APH No Real Ale (H) This is the oldest town pub, dating from at least 1600. Refurbished in 1999, from a very shabby look. Has been extended into next shop - though this looks like a separate pub as it has its own bar and is even named Casey's from the outside.
HARPERS WINE BAR Harbour Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1ET 01843 11-3, 7-11 Tue to Sat 12-4, 7-10.30 Sun Shepherd Neame Master Brew Bitter (H) Popular though quiet wine bar close to the Harbour.
LANTHORNE 20 Callis Court Road Broadstairs Kent CT10 3AE 01843 861952 11-3; 6-11; (11-11 Sat); 12-10.30 Sun Unknown Real Ales (H) Busy one bar pub, which started life in about 1880 as the Callis Court Hotel. It received its present name after a refurbishment by Thorley Taverns in the mid-90s. It is situated close to St. Peters Recreation Ground, home to Thanet Wanders Rugby team. A Thorley Tavern Pub.
LORD NELSON 11 Nelson Place Broadstairs Kent CT10 1HQ -Opposite Parish Church 01843 861210 APH Greene King IPA (H) Abbot (H) Guest Beer (H) Friendly local, a short walk up from harbour & beach. Building was built in 1805 and started life as tailor and drapers. It became a pub when brewer Richard Tomson brought it, and got its name because Tomson & Wotton were keen to commemorate the heroes of the French wars and the fact that Nelson's corpse on deck of Victory dropped anchor in Viking bay on it return for Battle of Trafalgar.
LOUISA BAY Queens Gardens Broadstairs Kent CT10 1QF 01843 861201 PUB CLOSED AND CONVERTED TO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
NEPTUNE'S HALL 1-3 Harbour Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1ET 01843 861400 APH Shepherd Neame Master Brew Bitter (H) Spitfire (H) Seasonal Beers (H) Old fashioned alehouse, the type of outlet disappearing every week, popular with locals & visitors alike. Built in 1815 on site of some old fisherman’s cottages, it was used in the 1920’s as a hotel. One of its patrons in was the celebrated ministerial of the time, J H Somerton, better known as ‘Uncle Mac’ who performed on the pier. The pub’s Interior was listed in 1999.
OLD CROWN 23 High Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1LP 01843 861747 APH (10:30) Unknown Real Ale (H) This mock-Tudor pub dates from the 1830s, at a time when writer Charles Dickens was becoming familiar with the town. Indeed it is possible that he used the pub while lodging at a guest-house where Woolworth's now stands in 1837. Extended over the years but retaining a cosy atmosphere.
PAVILION (Garden on the Sands) Harbour Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1EU 01843 600999 APH Courage Best Bitter (H) Courage Directors (H) Former theatre & ballroom taken over by Thorley Taverns in 1998. Stages shows in former ballroom area. Ask for real ale if main bar is closed. Good garden and patio area. A Thorley Tavern Pub.
PRINCE ALBERT 38 High Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1JT 01843 861917 APH (10:30) Guest Beers (H) Busy one bar pub erected in 1911 to replace the original Albert which stood in the way of the High Street widening. When built due to the Victorian's objective to segregate customers, it had five bars.
ROSE 13 Albion Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1LU 01843 861917 APH Whitbread Flowers Original (H) This late fifty's pub built by Tomson & Wotton, is a little further back from the road then its namesake it replaced. This pub had been in existence from around 1780's. The pub is now popular with the young.
TARTAR FRIGATE Harbour Street Broadstairs Kent CT10 1EU 01843 862013 APH (10.30) Unknown Real Ales (H) This flint-clad hostelry opposite the Harbour dates from the 18th Century, though there has been a pub on the site since Elizabethan times. It is named after HMS Tartar, a frigate built in the local shipyard. Good Value seafood Restaurant above pub. Children's Certificate. A Thorley Tavern Pub.
WROTHAM ARMS 9 Ramsgate Road Broadstairs Kent CT10 1QQ 01843 592175 11-11 Shepherd Neame Master Brew Bitter (H) Spitfire (H) Seasonal Ales (Occ) Narrow pub on edge of town centre, converted from two cottages which began accommodating visitors in about 1850. Formerly a Whitbread pub it is now owned by Shepherd Neame.