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Sort file:- St Lawrence, June, 2026.

Page Updated:- Monday, 08 June, 2026.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1828-

Rose Inn

Closed Oct 1968

25 High Street (St Lawrence Street 1851Census)

St. Lawrence

Rose Inn 1860

Above photo, circa 1860.

Rose Inn

Above photo, date unknown.

Rose 1923

Above photo, circa 1923, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. Rose, St. . Just showing the corner of the "Rose," which evidently was a tied house, within the estate of Cobb's Margate Brewery.

Rose Inn

Above postcard, date unknown. At the end of the street in the centre of the picture is the "Wheatsheaf."

Rose Inn circa 1940

Rose Inn is shown on the left, circa 1940. The "White Horse" can be seen on the right.

Rose location 2014

Above image from Google showing the location in May 2014.

From an email received 19 March 2014.

Hello.

My Grandparents ran the 'Rose Inn' 25 High Street, St Lawrence, Kent, up until when my 4 elder siblings were young. My sister who was born in 1957 remembers playing in the grounds so it must have been up until the early 1960's when they moved back to London.

I attach a photo of my Grandparents (Alfred Bertram (Bert) and Louisa Cooper) behind the bar.

Licensees 1960s

Kind regards,

Don Shrimpton.

 

Post Office Directory 1874 gives reference to a "Rose" at, St. Lawrence.

The last licensees Alfred Cooper and family sold the pub in 1966 to builders who demolished it and a petrol garage was built on the site, but this appears to have gone now (2014) and a Tesco store is now occupying the location. However, further information sent to me from Pamela Tyrie, tells me that he father Tom Nicholson was the last landlord of the pub, and held the license from between the summer of 1967 and left in October 1968 after which the pub did close.

 

From the Kentish Gazette 10 April 1838.

EAST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS.

These Sessions commenced on Friday at the Court Hose, St. Augustines, before W. Deedes, Esq, the Chairman.