At 18 Grosvenor Road in 1891; Street numbering seems to have changed several times and currently given as No. 47 Grosvenor Road **
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Rose & Crown, 47 Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells - in November 2009
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address
1855/Joseph Bailey/../../../Post Office Directory **
1862/Charles Cooke/../../../Post Office Directory
My Great Great grandfather, Ludwig Kessler was working from the site in 1862 as a professor of music no less. He appears in the local trade directory for that year. He was
certainly a musician, an immigrant from germany, I think he was using the site to provide music lessons and sell instruments. Again I think
it was common for pubs to be used in this way at the time. It seems likely that he was actually running the pub, as I have evidence of him
applying for additional licences, which were objected to by other local publicans and turned down by the authorities.
He subsequently became a band leader in the town and appeared at several local events as advertised in local newspapers.
He died very young at age 37 in 1872 and is buried in the local cemetery. *
Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 15 April 1867
The following transfer of licenses took place at the Petty Sessions on Monday
the Rose and Crown from Mr Ludwig Kessler to Mr George Butcher
After leaving the Rose and Crown in 1867, he spent some time at the Joiners Arms beerhouse,
and briefly in the 1871 census he is found at the The Druids Inn, in Hastings.
1867/Ludwig Kessler, Rose & Crown, 47 Grosvenor Road/../../Post Office Directory
Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 27 February 1869
Unstamped and Unjust measures:
Mr George Butcher of the Rose and Crown Inn was fined 40 shillings and costs for having four quart, three pint and one half gill measures, unjust and 1 shilling and costs for having two pint, one gill, and one half gill unstamped.
1874/George Butcher/../../../Post Office Directory
1881/George Butcher/Inn Keeper/51/Penshurst, Kent/Census
1881/Emma Butcher/Daughter/18/Penshurst, Kent/Census
1881/Alice M Butcher/Daughter/12/Tunbridge Wells, Kent/Census
1881/Edgar C Butcher/Son/10/Tunbridge Wells, Kent/Census
1881/Isabella Stephenson/General Servant/18/Crowboro, Sussex/Census
1881/Harry Thomas/Lodger/35/Manchester, Lancashire/Census
1881/Jesse Gibbs/Lodger/37/Luton, Bedford/Census
1881/Eliza Gibbs/Lodger/34/Yeovil, Somerset/Census
1881/Robert Allery/Lodger/28/Stow Market, Suffolk/Census
1891/P Butcher/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/William Edwin Burren/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/John Harbridge/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/John Harbridge/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Jn Hartridge/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/A L Jones/../../../Post Office Directory
2022, The Rose & Crown, 47 Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 2AY, Craft Union - Stonegate pubs
* Provided by Ray Kessler
** Provided By Stephen Harris