DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Tunbridge Wells, June, 2021.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 01 June, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

 Fountain

Latest ????

29 Calverley Road

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Fountain pre 1930

Above photo, pre 1930, kindly sent by Mick White.
Fountain location

Above photo, date unknown, showing the location of the "Fountain."

 

Information from local historian Ed Gilbert says that this was never a public house but operated as a beer-retailer, but I'm not so sure about that as it was titled a tavern. I am also informed that the original pub was demolished in the 1930 and replaced by the current (2018) building of Burton's.

 

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

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.

All emails are answered.

 

The Chronicle and Courier, 16 September, 1921.

Lamberhurst Brewery Estate.

Important sale at Tunbridge Wells.

One of the biggest sales of licensed houses held in the provinces in recent years was conducted by Messrs. Wickenden and Sons at the Pump Room, Tunbridge Wells, on Friday, when the Lamberhurst Brewery Estate, comprising 68 lots, came Under the Hammer. The lots sold were:-

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"Fountain," Tunbridge Wells, £5,000.

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LICENSEE LIST

WALKER Edward 1881-82+ (age 54 in 1881Census)

HEAD Henry 1891+

WHITE R 1903+

WHEELER Joseph 1913+

FARMER Henry 1918-22+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/Fountain.shtml

https://pubwiki.co.uk/CalverleyRoad29.shtml

 

CensusCensus

 

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-
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