Sadly this pub is now permanently closed. See also Link More information about The Star inn with a list of past licensees from 1841 can be seen at Link The article includes a photograph from about 1920 which shows the building on the right when it was the village shop. A group of people can be standing in the doorway which is now bricked up.
The origin of the name of Old Wives Lees is not clear but in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Wives Lees thus: "OLD-WIVES-LEES, or Oldwoods-Lees, a place in the N E of Kent; 4¼ miles S W of Canterbury. An annual race, on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham."
Maybe close in evolutionary terms to ostriches (both Struthioniformes), but these South American creatures are in a different family to the African ostriches. From the black on the neck I fancy these to be Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) from the east of South America. There is a Lessser Rhea (Pterocnemia pennata) to the south and west.