CARLTON FAMILY HOTEL Pub of Tunbridge Wells

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1881-

Carlton Family Hotel

Latest 1937

(Name to)

Montacute Road/Edridge Road

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Above photo, circa 1885, showing the hotel centre white building.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above postcard, date unknown, view from Brighton Lane.

Above photo 1913.

Above photo, circa 1920, kindly sent by Mick White.

Above photo, date unknown.

The Carlton Hotel on Nevillles Terrace (leads on to Montacute Road) /Eridge Road. Part of it still exists, but one end of the building became the "Lord Cornwallis."

This was built about 1874 on what was then part of Montacute Road which, once the mews houses behind were completed soon afterwards, became Nevill Terrace.

From the Sussex Express, Surrey Standard. 9 December 1893.

TONBRIDGE WELLS. SHOCKING DEATH FROM BURNING.

On Tuesday evening Mr Buss, county coroner, held an inquest at the "Carlton Hotel," on the body of Ada Sibley, aged 40, of 24 Eridge road.

The evidence showed that on Sunday week the deceased was going to bed in a bedroom which was heated by a large gas stove when her night dress came in contract with the flame and ignited. She was severely burned about the body, and succumbed on Monday.

The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 29 May 1896.

Drunk whilst in charge of Horses.

James Edwards, a farmer from Burwash, was on the evidence of Sergeant Wheeler, find 10s. and 5s. costs for being drunk whilst in charge of two horses, in the London Road.

Witness stated that the defendant was riding one of the horses and leading the other along the promenade on the Pantiles.

The defendant was further charged with cruelty cruelly ill-treating a horse by severely beating it the previous evening, in the "Carlton Hotel" yard.

Alfred Pegram deposed that he heard someone thrash in a horse in one of the stables of the "Carlton Hotel." There had been a sale of horses that afternoon. The defendant then came out leading a horse by the halter, and continued to thrash it on three occasions in a most a unmerciful manner about the head and shoulders, despite the efforts of witness and others to get the defendant to cease his cruelty. The horse was old and very poor, and he could see that the defendant was under the influence of drink, but not sufficient to render him incapable.

The Chief Constable stated that when charged the defendant replied he "didn't remember anything about it; he must have been drunk to have done it."

The Chairman considered it the worst case of cruelty they had had before them, and it was happily for defendant that it was his first appearance.

Fined £5, which was paid.

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WALTERS Alfred 1881-91+ (age 50 in 1881)