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16 Lower Green Road
Rusthall
018392 523076
https://whatpub.com/white-hart
Above photo 1910. |
Above postcard, date unknown. |
Above postcard showing the White Hart centre right circa 1914-18. |
The White Hart in Lower Green Road in Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells as
it was in 2008 (Image: Google Street View) |
Above photo taken on 1 March, 2010 by David Anstiss.
Creative Commons. |
Above sign, date unknown. |
Project 2014 has been started to try and identify all the pubs that are
and have ever been open in Kent. I have just added this pub to that list but
your help is definitely needed regarding it's history.
As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will
be shown here.
Thanks for your co-operation.
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The Chronicle and Courier, 16 September, 1921.
Lamberhurst Brewery Estate.
Important sale at Tunbridge Wells.
One of the biggest sales of licensed houses held in the provinces in
recent years was conducted by Messrs. Wickenden and Sons at the Pump
Room, Tunbridge Wells, on Friday, when the Lamberhurst Brewery
Estate, comprising 68 lots, came Under the Hammer. The lots sold were:-
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"White Hart," Rusthall, £2,600
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Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 1 December 1972.
Pub landlord stole savings club money.
COURT ORDERS REPAYMENT OF £400.
THE former landlord of the "White Hart" public house, Rusthall, who
stole nearly £700 of Christmas Savings Club money and left suddenly
was sentenced to six months' prison suspended for two years, at
Tunbridge Wells Magistrates Court on Monday.
Frederick Warman, of no fixed address, was ordered to pay back £400
of the money. This was the maximum compensation that the court could
award, but the chairman of the bench, Mr. Fred Elmer, said he hoped
Warman would pay back the whole amount.
Mr. Brendan Kenny, prosecuting, said 37 members of the "White Hart"
Savings Club paid weekly amounts of money to the secretary. Mr.
Charles Foreman, who passed on the cash to Warman, the tenant of the
pub.
He was supposed to pay the money into the bank, but instead kept
it
for himself — £678-98 1/2.
"Then he disappeared from the "White Hart" suddenly, leaving
confusion with regard to the tenancy." Mr. Kenny added.
Warman said he was now working on a motorway works as a labourer,
earning £30 a week. He was married with three children, but
separated, and living in a caravan in Surrey.
OWED RATES.
"I was hoping to pay the money back by Christmas," Warman told
the
court. "I had applied for a loan to cover it."
As well as the theft charge, Warman also admitted owing £106-71
rates to the council, and being £646 in debt on maintenance payments
due to his family.
Asked about his assets, Warman said he owned a 1966 Ford Cortina
estate car, and a freezer and other property that was still at the
"White Hart." Also, he had paid £3,000 as in-going money when he
took over the pub, and this was due back to him, less £900 he owed a
brewery.
The magistrates said as it would take some time to sort out his
financial matters. Warman would be given three months to pay the
£400 compensation and the outstanding rates.
The maintenance arrears were adjourned for three months, but he was
ordered to start paying £18 a week.
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According to recent information I am informed that the pub submitted an
application for change of use into living accommodation into a four bedroom
dwelling on 7 April 2020 and this was granted on 20 May the same year. So
that's another one we have lost forever.
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From the
https://www.kentlive.news By Mary Harris, 10 October 2023.
A former pub in Tunbridge Wells village is being converted into a family home.
The finer details of the proposal have now been agreed by the
conservation officer at the council.
The changing face of the former White Hart pub in Lower Green Road
in Rusthall in Tunbridge Wells. (Image: Google Streetview)
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A former pub in a village in Tunbridge Wells is being converted into
a four bedroom family home. Permission to convert the White Hart in
Lower Green Road in Rusthall, which already had a home within it,
was given in July 2020.
This latest application was simply for agreement from the council to
some conditions imposed as part of that permission, such as brick,
parking and bin storage details, which has now been given. The
parking will be at the front, on the existing asphalt surface, with
bins at the back. Only a small area of new brickwork is needed on
the front, where a door is being infilled and replaced by a window.
Reclaimed 'Kent red bricks' will be used, which were passed by
the eagle eyes of the council's Conservation Officer.
The Kent and Sussex Courier, owned by Reach plc, carried an article
on December 1, 1972, reporting the former landlord of the White Hart
stole nearly £700 of Christmas Savings Club money. He "left
suddenly" but was later sentenced to six months in prison, suspended
for two years, at the then Tunbridge Wells Magistrates' Court, which
is still inside Tunbridge Wells Police Station but now redundant. |
LICENSEE LIST
SMALES Edward John 1852+ (only listed as cigar manufacturer in 1852 from the
baptism records of his son)
GALLOP Thomas Penge Gallop 1891+
NIGHTINGALE George
1891+
CANFIELD Walter 1901-30+ (age 49 in 1911 )
     
JEFFREY Richard A 1938-39+ (age 54 in 1939)
WARMAN Frank to 1972
???? Ken & Marion 2005+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/WhiteHart.shtml
Census
From the Post Office Directory 1891
From the Post Office Directory 1903
From the Post Office Directory 1913
From the Post Office Directory 1914
From the Post Office Directory 1918
From the Post Office Directory 1922
From the Post Office Directory 1930
From the Post Office Directory 1938
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