Masonic hall formerly gough tavern

Masonic Hall originally Gough Coffee Tavern

The Coffee Tavern and Gough Road in which it stands were named after John Bartholomew Gough, a native of Sandgate who emigrated to America as a boy and became well known there as a temperance lecturer and writer.

He visited Sandgate several times between 1853 and 1879, and on Whit Monday 1879 laid the foundation stone of the Coffee Tavern, intended chiefly for the use of soldiers visiting the village from Shorncliffe Camp.