DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Tonbridge, March, 2022.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 06 March, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1871-

 Star and Garter

Closed 1968+

6 London Road

Tonbridge

Star and Garter

Above photo, date unknown.

By kind permission http://tonbridgecollectables.com/index.php
Star and Garter

Above postcard, date unknown.
Star and Garter 1963

Above photo, 22 December, 1963.

Kindly supplied by http://www.tonbridgehistory.org.uk/
Star and Garter

Above photo, date unknown, by Graeme Pine.
Star and Garter 1960s

Above sign 1960s.

Awaiting reverse picture of Whitbread sign.

Star and Garter card

Above aluminium card issued 1950. Sign series 2 number 22.

 

I am informed that the pub was definitely still open in 1968 but has since closed.

 

Kent & Sussex Courier 20 November 1874.

Temporary Authority was granted to Henry Cole to sell at the "Star and Garter," Tonbridge, transferred to him by Leonard Hewitt.

 

LICENSEE LIST

DUNK Nicholas 1871+ (also blacksmith age 37 in 1871Census)

HEWITT Leonard to Nov/1874

COLE Henry Nov/1874+

SOLE Henry 1881+ (age 57 in 1881Census)

BASSETT Thomas 1882+

WHITEHEAD George 1891-1903+ Kelly's 1903

CORNER Alfred Henry 1913+

COMDEN Richard Kenneth 1938+

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

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

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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