Card of the Day - 2023-08-24

Whitbread Inn Signs 4th
WHITBREAD & Co. Ltd [trade : brewing : UK] "Inn Signs - fourth series" (1952) - WHI-180 : WHI-1.4

Now this is a slightly different version of Nottingham Castle - and it is a Nottingham Castle in Kent - at Westgate-on-Sea. 

Our original British Trade Index part II catalogues all seven of the first Whitbread sets together, a listing which you can see in its entirety at the home page for the early, standard, signs. That is with our Card of the Day for the 22nd of January, 2026, in which our section appears as : 

  • INN SIGNS. Md. 76 x 51 ... WHI-1

       4. Fourth Series. Nd. (50). On board

 

By the time of our updated British Trade Index, our fourth series is listed as : 

 

                                                             WHITBREAD & CO. Ltd.
Brewers. Issued 1950-1974. All 76 x 50. All issues are covered in this volume. The History and listing of numbered series is covered in full in the book "Collecting Whitbread Inn-Signs" by Cockell and Laming, 1996. 

  • WHITBREAD`S INN SIGNS. Fourth Series. 1953. Nd.  (50) 25 of this series are known with plain backs, Nos. 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44, 46, 50.  ... WHI-180. 

By now it is possible that more have been discovered - or maybe you have some still to add. 

As far as the inn signs in this set, they are  as follows :

  1. Bat and Ball, Leigh
  2. Black Horse, Headcorn
  3. Bowl Inn, Hastingleigh
  4. Bull Hotel, Tonbridge
  5. Camden Arms, Sissinghurst
  6. Castleton`s Oak, Biddenden
  7. The Chequers, Tudeley
  8. Cinque Ports Arms, Hythe
  9. City of Canterbury, Canterbury
  10. Coach and Horses, Eastry
  11. Eight Bells, Wingham Well
  12. First and Last, Burham
  13. Gun Tavern, Folkestone
  14. Hope Inn, Lydden
  15. John Jorrocks, Frittenden
  16. Jubilee Inn, Folkestone
  17. Kentish Rifleman, Dunk`s Green
  18. King Ethelbert, Reculver
  19. King`s Arms, Sandwich
  20. King`s Head, Shadoxhurst
  21. King`s Head, Wateringbury
  22. The Locomotive, Ashford
  23. Lord Cornwallis, Tunbridge Wells
  24. Man of Kent, St. Michaels, Tenterden
  25. The Mitre, Canterbury
  26. The Mitre Inn, Tonbridge
  27. The Nevill Bull, Birling
  28. Nottingham Castle, Westgate-on-Sea
  29. Old House at Home, Edenbridge
  30. Palm Tree, North Elham
  31. The Plough, Westfield
  32. Queen`s Head, Canterbury
  33. Robin Hood, Upper Hallling
  34. Rose and Crown, Stone Street
  35. Royal Oak, Gillingham
  36. Royal Oak, Newingreen
  37. The Shakespeare, Sittingbourne
  38. Ship Hotel, Dymchurch
  39. South Eastern, Tonbridge
  40. Sugar Loaves, Hollingbourne
  41. Swan Inn, Wickhambreaux
  42. Three Chimneys, Biddenden
  43. Two Bells, Folkestone
  44. The Vauxhall, Canterbury
  45. Von Alten, Chatham
  46. Walnut Tree, Ditton
  47. Warren Inn, New Romney
  48. The Wheatsheaf, Swalecliffe
  49. White Hart, Hythe
  50. White Horse, Chilham