69-71 Mote Road

Maidstone

Above photo circa 1910.

This pub was lost to road widening so would have stood in the middle of the junction of lower and Upper Stone Street, Mote Road, and Knightrider Street. known as Wrens Cross.

Wrens Cross is named as they were building the Police station a builder happen to see a wren and said he looks cross so that became known as Wrens Cross. There are now flats half way up Upper Stone Street called Wrens Cross.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

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LICENSEE LIST

DENNIS John to 22/Sept/1849 dec'd

HILLS Thomas 1858-61+ (also carpenter age 75 in 1861)

PEARSON John 1862+

WHITE John 1871-74+ (age 40 in 1871)

SLENDER John 1881-91+ (age 70 in 1881)

GODDEN William July/1894+

SMITH Rudolph 1903+

LEPPER Richard John 1911-13+ (widower also police pensioner age 59 in 1911)

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