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Sort file:- Tunbridge Wells, March, 2022.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 20 March, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

 Railway Inn

Closed ????

160 Goods Station Road

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Railway Inn

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Mick White.
Railway Inn 1989

Above photo 29 May 1989, kindly sent by Philip Dymott.

 

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.

 

Kent & Sussex Courier, Wednesday 4 May 1887.

Tunbridge Wells Petty sessions. Licensing.

Temporary authority was granted to Mr. Joseph Fish to carry on the licence of the "Railway Inn," Goods Station Road, from Mr. George Butcher.

 

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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"Railway Inn," Tunbridge Wells, £4,800

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LICENSEE LIST

SIMMONS Thomas to May/1852 South Eastern Gazette

MONCKTON Sofia May/1852+ South Eastern Gazette

AUSTIN Joseph 1862-74+ (also Timber Merchant age 51 in 1871Census)

MERCER George 1881-82+ (age 24 in 1881Census)

BUTCHER George to May/1887

FISH Joseph May/1887-91+ (age 30 in 1891Census)

BALDOCK Edward 1903+ Kelly's 1903

BLACKFORD Henry 1911+ (age 65 in 1911Census)

TOURLE James Henry 1913-18+

LOCK J W A 1922-30+

HASE Sidney 1938+

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

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/railway.html

 

South Eastern GazetteSouth Eastern Gazette

CensusCensus

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

 

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