The Golden Lion

From the early 19th century until the 1920s, 147 High Street had been The Golden Lion pub. The name lives on in this Wetherspoon pub.

Before the late 1940s, 149 High Street was the Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham Savings Bank, and before that it was the City of Rochester and General Permanent Benefit Building Society, from the 1930s dating from at least the turn of the century. Before its amalgamation into the TSB, 147 High Street was a shoe shop, for at least 20 years.