Above postcard, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo 2013 by Nigel Chadwick Creative Commons Licence.

Above sign left, 2008, sign right May 2014.

Above photo, 2015, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Information below taken from their web site.

First licensed in 1415 the pub was undoubtedly in situ and trading long before this date. Situated on the London to Brighton coaching road via Speldhurst the pub has been providing weary travellers refreshment for six centuries. Opposite the pub is a row of cottages where the clients would rest their horses would be stabled just along the lane. The original part of the building structure has original oak beams from merchant ships and a classic inglenook fireplace stands at the end of the bar. Standing in the community since the days of Lower Green being considered its own Hamlet, the pub serviced the community even as far as to be the local mortuary in the unavoidable but unfortunate event.

Sussex Advertiser 30 September 1856.

TONBRIDGE. Petty Sessions, Wednesday, Sept. 24th.

Adjourned Licensing Day.

Mr. Cripps applied for the license of the "Red Lion Inn," Speldhurst, for Robert Haffenden, as it had been refused to the former landlord, on the ground that he had been convicted three times.

Granted.