DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Tunbridge Wells, October, 2024.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 20 October, 2024.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1880-

 Cyprus Villa

Latest 1950+

99 St James Road / Albion Road

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Cyprus Villa

Above photo, date unknown, kindly sent by Mick White.
Former Cyprus Villa 2008

Above Google image, September 2008.
Cyprus Villas 2019

Above Google image, June 2019.
Cypress card 1950Cypress card 1950

Above aluminium card issued 1950. Sign series 2 number 20.

 

Information from local historian Ed Gilbert says that this was never a public house but operated as a beer-retailer then it became a shop and then a private residence. I have also seen it named as the "Cypress."

Run as an Off-Licence for Frederick Leney at one time.

 

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, 6 February, 1880.

LICENSING BUSINESS.

The license of “Cyprus Villa” (outdoor) was transferred from the executors of William Dodd to Elizabeth Bowles Dodd, the widow.

 

LICENSEE LIST

DODD William to Feb/1880 dec'd

DODD Elizabeth Bowles (widow) Feb/1880+

WATERS Neil 1881-91+ (age 44 in 1881Census)

MOON Frederick 1903-13+

LEWIS George Charles 1918+

HUMPHREY Albert 1922-38+

Last pub licensee had WEEKS George 1952-56 dec'd

https://pubwiki.co.uk/StJamesRoad99.shtml

 

CensusCensus

 

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-
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