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Sort file:- Tunbridge Wells, March, 2022.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 06 March, 2022.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

High Rocks Hotel

Open 2020+

High Rocks Lane

Royal Tunbridge Wells

01892 515532

http://www.highrocks.co.uk

https://whatpub.com/high-rocks

Map 1875

Above map 1875.

High Rocks Hotel 1910

Above postcard circa 1910. By kind permission of Peter Macleod.

High Rocks Hotel and garden 1911

Above postcard circa 1911. By kind permission of Peter Macleod.

High Rocks Hotel 1925

Above postcard circa 1911. By kind permission of Peter Macleod.

High Rocks Hotel 2016

Above photo, 2016, by Helen England.

High Rocks Hotel 2016

Above photo, 2016, by Barry Page.

High Rocks Hotel

Above photo, from their web site, accessed 2017.

 

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 22 December, 1950.

Thieves’ £200 raid on hotel. Decamped with spirits and cigarettes.

SPIRITS and cigarettes valued at about £200 were stolen early on Monday from the "High Rocks Hotel," between Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells.

Major F. Collar, senior partner in the business, was disturbed by a noise outside his room. Jumping out of bed he opened the door and almost succeeded in grabbing a man who escaped after a chase down stairs.

Then Major Collar found that the telephone wires had been cut but his son and daughter held the broken wires together while he called the police.

The hotel cellar was almost cleared and bottles and cigarettes were taken from the shelves of the bar. Also stolen was a 10s. note—proceeds of a darts competition in aid of St. Dunstan's.

No sign of a forced entry could be found.

 

LICENSEE LIST

JACOB Nathaniel 1841+ (age 74 in 1841Census)

BARNETT James 1851-61+ (also farmer age 55 in 1851Census) (Cape of Good Hope 1851Census)

DEAN Jane 1881+ (also farmer age 61 in 1881Census)

 

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