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Sort file:- Tonbridge, September, 2021.

Page Updated:- Monday, 06 September, 2021.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

 White Horse

Closed 1975-

162 High Street

Tonbridge

White Hart

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Nigel Humphrey.
White Horse

Above photo, date unknown.

By kind permission http://tonbridgecollectables.com/index.php
White Horse cardWhite Horse card 1955

Above card issued April 1955. Sign series 5 number 44.
White Hart 2016

Above photo, 2016, kindly sent by Nigel Humphrey.

 

I am informed that the pub closed some time between 1968 and 1975.

 

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, Friday 30 January 1874.

Tonbridge Petty sessions. Transfers.

The licence of the "White Horse," Tonbridge, was transferred from William Brackenbury to Charles Jones.

 

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 7 February, 1908.

Supt. Styles in his annual report to the licensing justices, said the licensees had generally conducted their houses in a satisfactory manner, with the following exceptions: .... Ann Sarah Glover, "White Horse Inn," Tonbridge, serving a constable on duty; ....

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

ADAMS Thomas 1858+

PEARSON Henry 1862-Dec/68 dec'd Maidstone and Kentish Journal

BEECHER/BEECHING Richard Dec/1868-82+ (age 44 in 1881Census) Maidstone and Kentish Journal

BRACKENBURY William to Jan/1874 Kent and Sussex Courier

JONES Charles Jan/1874+ Kent and Sussex Courier

JENNAWAY James 1891-1903+ Kelly's 1903

GLOVER Sarah Ann 1908+ Kent and Sussex Courier

COOMBS George Astley 1911-30+ (age 32 in 1911Census)

ALLEN Edward John 1938+

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

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

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

Kent and Sussex CourierKent and Sussex Courier

Maidstone and Kentish JournalMaidstone and Kentish Journal

 

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