44 Dover Road/Walmer Castle Road

Lower Walmer

Deal

Above picture shows Wellesley House.

Not sure whether this is the same building, but local paper dated 12 January 1929 stated:- Wellesley House, Castle Road, Walmer (which is just off the Dover Road); is now open as an up-to-date nursing home.

If this is indeed the same house, I have also found reference to the Duke of Wellington, Lord Warden to the Cinque Ports, Sir Arthur Wellesley, who prior to 1808 had lived at the top of Walmer Castle Road in the house which today bears his name - Wellesley House.

The book titled "The Old Pubs of deal and Walmer" states that in the 1861 census there were three pubs together, those being "Bricklayers Arms," the "Cambridge Arms" and the "Wellesley Arms."

LICENSEE LIST

ROGERS Richard 1858+ (grocer and cheesemonger)

HATCH Mary Ann 1861+ (Census)

FREVIER John 1871+ (Census)

HOOK Henry 1881+ (Census)

KNIGHT William K 1874+

GREEN Charles 1882+

NORRIS James Henry 1891-99+ (1891 census)

James Henry Norris was the nephew of William Cullen Norris of the "Life Boat" in Walmer.

From Melville's Directory 1858

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Post Office Directory 1882

From the Kelly's Directory 1899