51 Wood Street / Manor Street

Brompton

Above postcard, date unknown.

Above photo, date 1960.

Above photo showing the same site in 2011.

The 1851 census shows a pub called the "Royal Sapper" at 11 Wood Street (on the corner of Wood Street/Manor Street, later on site of the "Royal Engineer"), named for the lowest rank of the Royal Engineers (previously a connected but separate regiment).

In 1859 the Chatham News records that application for a new house was made, and it continued to appear in news items between 1860 and 1863.

At some point it appears to have been renamed the "Royal Engineer" (possibly incorporating the license from the old "Royal Engineer" in the High Street, which had closed in 1861). It closed in 1959 and in 1960 the license was moved to a new "Royal Engineer" at Twydall Green.
 

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.

LICENSEE LIST

TOMLIN Joseph Thomas 1863+ (age 39 in 1851)

SHARP John 1881+ (also Chelsea Pensioner age 40 in 1881)

GOLDUP Walter George 1918-22+

BERRY Percy Edgar 1930+

HOBDAY Edward T 1938+

USHER Amy Mrs to 1959

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

Census