131 Upper Grosvenor Road

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Above photo, circa 1952, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo date unknown showing Ed Sharville (right) and the beer drinking chicken.

Above photo date unknown, from http://www.closedpubs.co.uk

Above signs, May 1986. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Local knowledge, further pictures, and licensee information would be appreciated.

I will be adding the historical information when I find or are sent it, but this project is a very big one, and I do not know when or where the information will come from.

All emails are answered.

A fire broke out in the pub in June 2003 and the building has now been demolished and replaced by flats.

From the https://www.kentlive.news August 2018. The Greyhound pub, which was in Upper Grosvenor Road, caught fire in June 2003, destroying stock and personal contents inside. At the time, investigators said six drums of petrol had been ignited in the pub. The fire was treated as arson but no-one was ever brought to justice. Over the years the boarded-up pub became one of the town’s most notorious eyesores and at one point became an unofficial car lot. It is now houses and flats.

LICENSEE LIST

TAYLOR David 1881+ (age 43 in 1881)

YOUNG Ralph 1891+

MOBSBY William 1903+

RENNISON Arthur George 1913+

HARVEY Tom 1918+

KNIGHT Harold George 1922-30+

LOVELAND Leonard Ernest 1938+

MARTIN Cark 1995-97

PARKER Lynn 2004+ish

https://pubwiki.co.uk/Greyhound.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/greyhound.html

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