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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1415-

Red Lion

Open 2020+

82 (15) Lower Green Road

Rusthall

01892 527000

http://www.redlionrusthall.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/red-lion

Red Lion 2013

Above photo 2013 by Nigel Chadwick Creative Commons Licence.

Red Lion sign 2008Red Lion sign 2014

Above sign left, 2008, sign right May 2014.

Red Lion 2015

Above photo, 2015, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

 

This was listed as a grade II building on 7 June 1974. I have also seen this addressed as Speldhurst.

 

Information below taken from their web site.

First licensed in 1415 the pub was undoubtedly in situ and trading long before this date. Situated on the London to Brighton coaching road via Speldhurst the pub has been providing weary travellers refreshment for six centuries. Opposite the pub is a row of cottages where the clients would rest their horses would be stabled just along the lane. The original part of the building structure has original oak beams from merchant ships and a classic inglenook fireplace stands at the end of the bar. Standing in the community since the days of Lower Green being considered its own Hamlet, the pub serviced the community even as far as to be the local mortuary in the unavoidable but unfortunate event.

 

Sussex Advertiser 30 September 1856.

TONBRIDGE. Petty Sessions, Wednesday, Sept. 24th.

Adjourned Licensing Day.

Mr. Cripps applied for the license of the "Red Lion Inn," Speldhurst, for Robert Haffenden, as it had been refused to the former landlord, on the ground that he had been convicted three times.

Granted.

 

LICENSEE LIST

TURNER William 1832+ Pigot's Directory 1832-34

SNASHELL Charles 1841+ (age 45 in 1841Census)

HARGRAVES Fanny 1851+ (age 45 in 1851Census)

HAFFENDEN Robert 1856+

LAMB Charles 1871+ (age 39 in 1871Census)

HAYLEY James 1858+

SIMPSON Samuel 1874-81+ (age 47 in 1881Census)

COLEMAN Alfred 1891+

TRUSSELL Edgar John 1891-03+ (age 33 in 1891Census) Kelly's 1903

TOMLIN ???? 1911+ Census

WALLACE William 1913+

BASSETT Albert William 1918+

WARNER Henry Charles 1922+

DREW Alfred Edward 1930+

AVARD Walter 1938+

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

 

Pigot's Directory 1832-34From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

 

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