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10 Middle Row, High Street
Maidstone
Above photo, date unknown, by kind permission of Eric Hartland. |
Above photo, 1890. The pub was situated next to the "Sun"
shown far right. |
Above showing close-up circa 1890. |
Above photo, circa 1900, by kind permission of Eric Hartland. |
Above photo, July 2011, by kind permission of Eric Hartland. |
Above photo, October 2012, by kind permission of Eric Hartland. |
The "Marquis of Granby" was situated at No 10 Middle Row. As well as
being a public house it seems that landlord George Camford made rooms
available for the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes society. If you look
carefully at the gas lamp you can see their initials RAOB.
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Kentish Gazette 14 May 1802.
Monday died Mrs. Scott, at the "Marquis of Granby," public-house,
Maidstone.
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Kentish Gazette 19 March 1819.
Death.
March 14, aged 67 years, Mrs. Scott, of the "Marquis of Granby Inn,"
Maidstone.
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Kentish Gazette, 2 February, 1821.
DEATH.
Jan. 26, at Maidstone, aged 46, Mr. Stephen Scott, landlord of the "Marquis
Granby" public-house.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 8 June 1841.
MEETING OF LIBERAL VOTERS.
A numerous and influential meeting of freemen and electors was held at
the "Marquis of Granby Inn," Maidstone, on Friday evening Last. Several
patriotic speeches were made and toasts drunk, and in the course of the
evening a declaration was very numerously signed (even by many who have
hitherto voted for the Tories), pledging themselves to vote for either
one or two Liberal candidates, who will undertake to support the
ministerial measures respecting corn and sugar. The freemen now begin to
feel that they have been "fooled to the top of their bent" by the
Tories. Mighty promises have been made which have come to nothing! The
Tories, feeling or fancying that they had their heel upon their necks,
have trampled on them beyond endurance, and the meanness of Mr. Fector,
in declining to contribute towards the subscription which was raised for
the suffering poor during the late intense frost, until he was shamed
into it by the taunts and remonstrance's of this paper, has brought home
to their "business and bosoms" the conviction that unless a "third man"
is returned this election, the vote of a Maidstone elector will merely
give him the privilege of being registered in a list of slaves.
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Maidstone Journal, 12 July, 1842.
DEATH.
On the 11th inst., Mr. Thomas P. Chaplin, of this town, late
landlord of the "Marquis of Granby," aged 43
years.
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From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday 14 January,1860. Price 1d.
TRANSFER OF LICENSE
The license of the “Marquis of Granby” was transferred from Joseph Anderson to John Moore.
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Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday 20th October 1860.
Concert Room, "Marquis of Granby Inn," High Street, Maidstone.
J. Moore, has great pleasure in announcing to the public that he is
engaged the celebrated Soprano vocalist, Miss Hastings of the London
concerts, assisted by Mr. Manton, Seriocomic Singer, Pianist and
performer on the Crystalopean, late of Evans's Grand Hotel Concert
saloon, who will appear on Wednesday 17th October and every Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings during the season, when they
will sing and perform all the newest compositions of the day.
Admission tickets 3d. and 6d. each to be had at the bar.
J. Moore, proprietor.
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From the Kentish Chronicle and General Advertiser, 24 October, 1863, Price 1 1/2d.
INTERESTING TO ANTIQUARIANS.
Last week, in the course of some alterations at the “Marquis of Granby
In,” Middle-row, High-street, Maidstone, an interesting discovery was
made. The removal of some of the mathematical tiling which covers the
front exposed to view a grotesque-looking figure, carved in wood; and on
further search seven other similar figures were found placed at regular
intervals along the front of the house between the ground and the first
floors, and forming corbels to the upright timbers. Beneath is a very
handsomely carved oak cornice in fine preservation. The figures are all
in a sitting posture; some of them being much mutilated, but others
quite perfect. It seems that twenty-two years ago some workmen came upon
one of them, but it was then covered up again without any investigation.
The house was evidently one of note in former times; but the date of it
is unknown, there being no mention whatever of it in the histories of
the town, although other ancient houses in the locality are noted. The
front of the house is known to have been covered as at present for at
least 80 years; but the date of the carving is quite a matter of
conjecture. The old work is to be restored, by the present owners of the
building, Messrs. Brenchley, and Co.
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LICENSEE LIST
SCOTT Stephen to 26/Jan/1821 dec'd
LONG Samuel 1826-28+
SANCTO Johnstone 1832+
CHAPLIN Thomas Pepperell 1839-11/July/42 dec'd (age 40 in 1841 )
BOW Spencer G 1851-55+ (age 28 in 1851)
ANDERSON Joseph 1858-Jan/1860
MOORE John Jan/1860-Sept/63 (age 37 in 1861)
JUDGES Stephen Sept/1863-67+
DARVELL James 1874+
CAMFIELD George 1881-1903+ (age 36 in 1881)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/MarquisGranby.shtml
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Maidstone
Telegraph
From the Post Office Directory 1867
From the Kelly's Directory 1903
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