DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Tonbridge, April, 2024.

Page Updated:- Thursday, 04 April, 2024.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1851-

Elephant and Castle

Latest 1962+

(Name to)

199 High Street

Tonbridge

Elephant and Castle

Above postcard, date unknown.

By kind permission http://tonbridgecollectables.com/index.php

Elephant and Castle 1950

Above photo circa 1950.

Kindly supplied by http://www.tonbridgehistory.org.uk/

 

It is believed that the pub was serving as early as the 16th century.

The "Elephant and Castle Inn" was the original site of the North limit of the town, where tolls were collected, the inn being built on the foundations of the Port Reeve's House.

The pub changed name to the "Ivy House" some time between 1950 and 1965.

 

South Eastern Gazette, 6 November, 1860.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR to be heard at the Sessions House, Maidstone, before the Judge of the County Court of Kent, on Wednesday, the Twenty-first day of November, 1860, at Eleven o’clock in the forenoon precisely.

WILLIAM CHITTENDEN, formerly of Tonbridge, Kent, journeyman carpenter; afterwards of the "Elephant and Castle," Tonbridge aforesaid, beer retailer and journeyman carpenter; then of South-street, Wimbledon, Surrey, out of business and employment; then a prisoner for debt in the Debtors’ Prison, London; afterwards of South-street, Wimbledon aforesaid; and then and late of 11, Pleasant-row, near the Barracks, Maidstone, Kent, out of business and employment.

 

From the Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, Friday 17 June, 1927.

CAR HITS WINDOW.

Mrs. Margaret Walter, of Folkestone, was driving her car round Bordyke Corner at midnight on Thursday week to proceed down Tonbridge High Street, and in endeavouring to avoid a dog drew on to the pavement. The near side lamp hit the window pane of the "Elephant and Castle Inn," breaking the glass. The lamp of the car was also smashed but there were no personal injuries.

 

Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 11 February 1949.

APPLICATIONS.

Wine licences were granted to Albert Abraham Wakefleld, "Elephant and Castle," Tonbridge.

 

LICENSEE LIST

CUCKOO James 1851+ (age 43 in 1851Census)

CHITTENDEN William pre 1860

DUFF John H M 1881+ (age 59 in 1881Census)

POPE Thomas 1890-91+

ROSER Sarah Edith (nee POPE) to Apr/1892 Thanet Advertiser

ROSER Frederick (husband) Apr/1892-1903+ Thanet Advertiser

WILLETT Caroline Mrs 1913-38+

WAKEFIELD Albert Abraham 1949+

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CensusCensus

Thanet AdvertiserThanet Advertiser

 

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