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17 Shipbourne Road / Cage Green
Tonbridge
01732 355194
https://whatpub.com/george-dragon
Above photo, 2009, kindly sent by Michael Mirams. |
 
Above sign left 1980s, sign right 1993
With thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com. |
Above matchbox, circa 1980s, kindly sent by Debi Birkin. |
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From the Maidstone Telegraph and West Kent Messenger, 18 December 1869.
Tunbridge Intelligence. PETTY SESSIONS.—TUESDAY.
Before Sir David Salomons (in the chair), Major Scoones, C. Powell, Esq,
and A. Powell, Esq.
TRANSFER OF LICENSES.
Mr Henry Wells, landlord of the “George and Dragon Inn,” Cage Green,
applied for the license of the house to be transferred to his son John
Wells.
Supt. Dance, in answer to the Bench, said Mr John Wells was a very
respectable young man, and his father kept the inn for many years.
The proper service of the notices having been proved, the transfer was
granted.
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From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 11 February, 1880.
LICENSING BUSINESS.
Temporary authority was granted to Mr. Charles Jones to carry on the
business of the “George and Dragon Inn,” Tonbridge, until next transfer
day.
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Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 18 May 1962.
Landlord Going.
Mr. Harry Howe, landlord of the "George and Dragon," Shipbourne
Road, Tonbridge for the past 22 years, is
planning to leave after his daughter's wedding in August.
At 27, Mr. Howe was the youngest landlord in Tonbridge when he
arrived at the "George and Dragon" in
September, 1939, with his wife, Dee.
He had hardly begun his new life when he went away to the war,
serving 5 1/2 years with the R.A.S.C. in India,
Persia and the the Italian campaign. While in Persia he contracted
malaria, from which he still suffers.
After the war Mr. Howe, a former rugby player, helped the Old
Juddian R.F.C., to survive and prosper by
providing the club with headquarters at the pub and hot showers in a
building at the back.
Mr. and Mrs. Howe will remain in Tonbridge where "we have made an
awful lot of good friends." They have
bought a house in nearby Portland Park, and Mr. Howe will become a
newsagent in Sevenoaks.
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LICENSEE LIST
SMITH John 1828-40+
 
WELLS Henry 1858-Dec/69
WELLS John Dec/1869-74+
JONES Charles Feb/1880-91+ (age 26 in 1881 )
HARRIS Ernest William 1903+
STREEK William 1913-38+
HOWE Harry Sept/1939-62
https://pubwiki.co.uk/GeorgeDragon.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
Census
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