A Mackeson & Co/Whitbread inn.

Wander along Sturry Road and look at the inn sign of the Waterloo Tavern and ponder what significance it has with Waterloo, either Battle or Station. A Canterbury Licensing Planning Committee at the end of World War Two dated the inn as 1812 - three years before the battle of Waterloo. According to Flints, the brewers, this inn was previously called The Ordnance Arms and it is mentioned as Waterloo tavern in a Directory of 1838 adding, 'near Vauxhall'. The innkeeper was Richard Clark.

The innkeeper in 1987 is Mr Nelson and he is amused to be in charge of the Waterloo.

It is a pleasant inn and used to be frequented by local residents and soldiers. I wonder what they thought of the inn sign during the last century.

Wilmot, E., 1988, Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29737.