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~ WATLING STREET ~ Guethelinga Via CANTERBURY St. Mary Bredin, Municipal ward of Dane John The Roman road was found throughout Beer Cart Lane; but in Watling Street it runs under the houses on the north side of the street, not beneath the roadway. It also ran considerably to the north of Old Dover Road, not beneath the present roadway there. "Archaeologia Cantiana, 1883" To be sold by private contract, A convenient house in Watling Street, near the Dane John. Frederick Keyes. Auctioneer & Appraiser, accountant, house and Estate Agent, 29, Westgate Within, Canterbury (KG April 12, 1870) Old Dover Road to St. Margaret's Street (right from Old Dover Road)
No. 1 OSWALD HOUSE on the corner of Watling and St. Mary Streets Built 1794 on the Paddock (formerly a cherry garden) by William BALDOCK for George QUESTED a schoolmaster the house remained a school until 1875 when it was sold by the schoolmaster William SMITH to William Minter CLARIS, gentleman. The playground was sold in 1876. 1838 Henry MARLEN, Dane John Academy, Boarding and Day (listed under Academies and Seminaries), Watling Street John SMITH, Schoolmaster, Dane John Acadamey % (wife Jane) Teachers - John Edward LEWIS and Thomas Henry BROWN % 23 Pupils - Frank William WOOD, of Canterbury % DANE JOHN ACADEMY, John SMITH, Schoolmaster, Alfred SMITH and Alexander GREY, Assistant Schoolmasters, 28 students ^ (ages to 9 - 20) John Samuel GILES, Canterbury George Thomas TOMSETT, Canterbury Ferdinand William GREATREN, Captain in the Royal Dragoons ( By 1899 it was called Oswald House, and it was purchased by Thomas Soars JOHNSON, MD. 1917 W. Pembroke JONES Esq., and The Misses The house was destroyed in 1942
INGOLDSBY Dec 20, 1894 Saturday next. Mr. George Slater will sell by auction, on Saturday next, December 22nd, a bay mare, 14.2, quite to ride a good fencer and has carried a lady to hounds for the last three seasons, the property of Martin Tomson, Esq. Mr. George Slater will sell on Saturday next "Kitty" a chestnut mare 15.3* a good hack, quiet in double and single harness the property of J. T. Harris, Esq. *hands high Mr. George Slater. Will sell on Saturday next, the twelve following Horses from the Canterbury Cavalry Depot by order of the Secretary of State for War. 40 Horses, for sale by auction, by Mr. George Slater at his repository, Canterbury on Saturday next December 22nd. Also Carriages and Harness. George Slatter, Auctioneer and Land Agent ( 1903 Geroge Slater, Auctioneer & Land Agent and horse repository, Watling Street 1917 George SLATER
Oswald Terrace (No. 1 - 3)
No. 3 1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) Miss JEUDWINE, 3 Watling Street In Watling Street - Margaretta Jeudwine (u) age 83, with neice Eliza Gradidge (u) % Sacred to the memory of This tablet is erected by the two surviving Their daughter, Margaretta, died January 1st 1852, Aged 84 Ann Elizabeth the last surviving daughter and relict of Peter Craig died March 22nd 1861, aged 84 years. Tablet in St. Peter's Church ------ ^ No. 3 Watling street - 1890 Ann SANKEY...(William Henry Sankey of Sandiacre, Nottingham son) and Ann Elizabeth Hammond, wife of William Henry Hammond of Chilham, daughter of Ann 1917 Miss L. LIPSCOMB
No. 4 Jonahtan RUTTER % Thomas OLIVER ^ W. K. CURTIS Esq. Member of the Kent Archaeological Society 1862 Archaeologia Cantiana 1862 1917 Mrs. J. MAYLAM
No. 5 William ROOTS, Army Forage Contractor % William ROOTS ^ Edward COLLARD, Brewers Traveller 1917 George COLLARD
No. 6 Chapel House % THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S CHURCH July 11, 1863 For new chapel, Watling Street, Canterbury. Mr. W. F. Poulton (Reading) architect: Simms £2299 Wilson £2052 Lancefield £1863 Bonnett £1797 "The new chapel on the site of the old building, in Watling Street, Canterbury has just been commenced, and is to be in the Early Decorated Style. The accommodation will be for about 500 persons on the ground floor, and in an end gallery a school and class rooms will occupy the whole of the space under the chapel. Bath stone dressings and rag stone walling are the materials of the front. The cost will be about 2,000l, including lighting and all expenses. Mr. Lancefield of Canterbury is the contractor, Mr. Poulton is the architect." Aug 15 1863 The Builder vol 21 ----- ^ George NEETON, Independent Minister % 1917 Rev. W. EDMONDSON
No. 7 Edward SANKEY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons London and Licenced Apothecary (Ann Sankey, sister in law, widow) % John USHER, Appraiser ^ *possibly the John Usher William HOWARD, Bankers Clerk ^ John Thomas THOMPSON, Contractors Lay Clerk ^ Henry Christian SUTTON, Relieving & Inquiry Officer ( Walter MANT, Postman (Civil Service) 1917 Miss L. BOURNE
No. 8 Mary STRINGER % Maria STRINGER ^ Mary BUNCE 1917 J. VAUGHAN
No. 9 James JENKINS, Accountant % Ann Isabella WILLIAMS, Furrier ^ 1885 Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trades - Miss Isabella WILLIAMS, listed under Furriers Louisa HUGHES is boarding at No. 9 Watling street, she is an Elementary School mistress c. 1890's Charles HOPPER, Job master (stableman) 1917 Francis CLARKE
No. 10 1838 Thomas BOULTON, 10 Watling Street (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and retired persons) Thomas W. BOULTON, Omnibus Proprietor % Elizabeth BOULTON (w) ^ Mr. A. HORSLEY, 10 Watling Street (1880 Members - from the 1881 Report of the East Kent Natural History Society) 1917 Robert NOBLE
No. 11 William HARRISON, Stone mason % Ann JULL, Lodging House keeper % (?) or no, 11 William JOHNSON, Hostler ^ 1882 William Lewis AIANO, Boot Maker 1885 Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trades - William L. AIANO, 11 Watling Street - Listed under Boot & Shoe Makers, Warehouses & Dirs. 1890's - 1903 William Lewis AIANO, Boot Maker (b. 1832 in Canterbury) *William L. AIANO died in 1907 in Canterbury *Living with his parent's in the 1840's in Albion Square his father Bartholemew AIANO was a Bird Cage Maker born in Kent 1917 William ELLIS
No. 12 James HOPPER, Ostler % James HOPPER, Hostler ^ Sarah HOPPER and her daughter Ada who is a teacher of music are living at number 12. c. 1890's 1917 Ernest Sidney MARTIN
No. 13 Sarah ANDREWS % Carline WEST, Dressmaker ^ William JONES, Carpenter ^ George MARTIN, Fly Driver (Groom), son Thomas Martin, Shopman, China (Earthenware), son Stratford Martin, Grocer's Porter, Emily Martin, daughter, Dressmaking Apprentice ( 1917 G. HUGGETT
No. 14 & 15 No. 14 James NORLEY, Tailor ^ No. 15 Charles MOORE, Grocer ^ Ann BOURNE, Grocer, Elizabeth CROW, Sister, Thomas WOOD, Grocers Assistant ( 1917 P. E. BOURNE, Grocer
Rose Lane
No. 16 Built by Sir Charles Man, c. 1625 (but considerably altered at later dates) Creditors under 22 & 23 Vict. cap. 35. Last Day of Claim. Friday, March, 29, 1861. John GODFREY, Esq. Brooke house, Ash, Kent. Wightwick, Kingsford & Fraser, Solicitors, 16 Watling Street, Canterbury, June 1 The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter, April 6, 1861 Used as an office ^ Stephen WATTS, Stonemason, Charlotte WATTS, daughter, Elementary School Teacher ( 1903 Cecil Edward KINGSFORD, solicitor and commissioner for oaths and clerk to the commissioners of sewers for the Eastern division of the county and clerk to magistrates for Home and Wingham divisions (firm, Wightwick & Kingsford) 16 Watling street *1883 - The Law Times - Professional Partnerships Dissolved, Gazette, Jan. 4. Wightwick, Kingsford, Wightwick and Kingsford Solicitors, Canterbury: Thomas Norman Wightwick, Montague Kingsford, William Norman Wightwick and Cecil Edward Kingsford j. As regards T. N. Wightwick. Dec. 31. Debts by remaining partners. 1913 Cecil Edward KINGSFORD, Clerk to the Justices 1913 Solicitors to the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, KINGSFORD, Arrowsmith & Wightwick 1917 KINGSFORD, ARROWSMITH & WIGHTWICK, Solicitors (tele. 7) *Cecil Edward KINGSFORD, Esq. solicitor and commissioner; clerk to the Justices and to the Commsrs. of Taxes (Home and Wingham Divisions) clerk to the Commissioners of Sewers for East Kent. Office of the County Magistrates Robert Henry ARROWSMITH, Esq. (B.A.) solicitor and commissioner Normal Wightwick II, Esq. (B.A.) Gerald M. KINGSFORD, Esq. Mrs. HUDSON, Caretaker The side view of the house
No. 17 James WILSON, Accountant ^
No. 18 Damaged in the WW2 bombing, Demolished 1953 Jane E. ABBOTT, School Mistress % (no 17 or 18?) Thomas CROSS, Schoolmaster ^ Richard BARNWELL, student, Canterbury ^ 1886 R. P. Evans, Esq. WATLING HOUSE, Canterbury *Member of the Kent Archaeological Society 1889 Francis Cross, Commercial School, WATLING HOUSE C. Holttum, Surgeon, Watling House 1889 WATLING HOUSE, Francis William Cross, Schoolmaster and Journalist ( **F. W. Cross gave money towards the restoration of the Holy Cross Westgate churchyard, as per the notes in J. M. Cowpers book c. 1888 *Rambles Round Old Canterbury, have drawings by Francis William Cross, also History of the Walloon & Huguenot church at Canterbury (The publications of the Huguenot society London) by Francis William Cross 1891/92, East Kent Natural History Society - Members - Mr. F. W. CROSS, Watling Street 1917 WATLING HOUSE, Sidney HARVEY, Esq. (F.I.C., F.C.S.)
No. 19 Damaged in the WW2 bombing, Demolished 1953 Robert Court CULLEN, Junior, Accountant ^ Lewis CASTLE, Fruiterer ( 1913 Sidney HARVEY, City Analyst 1917 WATLING CHAMBERS, Hawkins and Roberts, Analysts Borough Analyst's Offices, E. M. Hawkins, Esq. (F.I.C., F.C.S.) C.C. ROBERTS, Esq. (M.A., A.I.C.) Thomas A. BOWEN, Esq., City Magistrates Clerk
No. 19b
No. 20 Susan C. GREAVES, Landed proprietress % Susan Charlotte GREAVES ^ 1873 (return of owners of land, 1873) William PLUMMER, 20 Watling Street, Canterbury Acres. 33, 1, 20 Rent 79 10 Mary Ann HOLLOWAY, Boarding House Keeper ( William PENN, Furnishings Warehouseman ) 1917 A. CARLISLE
No. 21 Thomas G. KENNETT, Wine & Spirt Merchants Clerk % Thomas Godfrey KENNETT ^ Zachariah PRENTICE, Registered General Medical Practioner ) 1917 R. C. KIRKWOOD
No. 22 Eliza KEELER, Lodging House keeper % Jessie SCOTT ^ Eliza KEELER, Lodging House ^ Walter WILDEY, Builders Clerk ( Walter WILDEY, Builders Surveyor ) 1917 Warters and Hall, Dressmakers
No. 23 Mary Ann DAVIS % David HANCOCK % (?) Elizabeth MAIDLOW & Eliza JONES, Young ladies school 1884 Robert Mendham EVANS (the exors. of the late), 23 Watling Street (listed under Hop Merchants) 1917 Miss SUTTON, Costumier 1940's ? - H. CAMPBELL and ASHENDEN, architects, 23 Watling Street *photograph of a plan of the undercroft of the Eastbridge Hospital CCA
Right from Castle Street
No. 24 QUEENS HEAD/THE THREE TUNS William PIERSON, Victualler % Isaac RATCLIFF, Inn Keeper ^ July 15th, 1865 I. RATCLIFFE, Queens Head Inn, Watling Street (No. 1561) Poll for the two knights of the shire, voted B & K (parish of qualification - Saint Mary Bredin) William TERRY, Queen's Head Hotel, Watling Street, 1913 1917 Miss H. Ellen BLAIR
24a 1917 QUEENS HEAD, Walter FOSTER Hester E. SHIRLEY & mother Hester COLLARD ^
No. 25 1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) John LE GRAND, 25 Watling Street Caroline LE GRAND % Jane JAGER ^ Miss Henrietta IRON, 25 Watling Street (1880 Members - from the 1881 Report of the East Kent Natural History Society) 1917 ROGERS AND DORE, Auctioneers, valuers and house agents (tele. 11y) F. H. DORE, Esq., Architect and Surveyor Vaughn PAGE, Esq. Solicitor and commissioner for oaths
No. 26 LATCHMERE HOUSE 1847 Henry WATERMAN, 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, 1847 Poll Book David B. MAJOR, General Practioner & Apothocary % The Medical Register 1860 - lists David Browning MAJOR at no 26 Watling Street, Canterbury Kent. Lic. Soc. Apoth. Lond. 1822. Mem. 1823 Fell. 1843. R. Coll. Surg. Eng. David B. Marjor Surgeon ^ Medical News, May 11, 1861 - Deaths - May 3, David Browning MAJOR, of Watling Street, Canterbury F.R.C.S. Eng. (Hon) M.R.C.S., L.S.A. aged 59 (buried at St. Margarets) 1889 Charles HOLTTUM, M.D. LATCHMERE HOUSE Latchmere House, Watling Street - Charles HOLTTUM (widower), Surgeon & General practioner 1894 Charles HOLTTUM was a creditor of Jane LONG, Fishmonger of St. Margaret's street in the amount of £25 1927 Mrs. Robert PATTERSON, 26 Watling Street, Canterbury (phone book)
No. 27 Thomas SMITH, Carpenter & office porter ^ Charles Joseph AYRE, Postmaster ( 1917 Percy Thomas BAKER, Esq. (M.A.) Solicitor and commissionr for oaths (tele. 34) Mercer & Baker Miss HODGSON, Caretaker
No. 28 George HART, Solicitor's Clerk ^ 1890's - 1900's Charles RICHARDSON, Sanitary Inspector 1917 C. RICHARDSON
No. 29 William Henry BIGGLESTON, Ironfounder ^ 1854 - Ironfounders and co-partners, for smith and founders work on the new wing of the female prison CKS * "Supplement to the London Gazette, February 27, 1858", John George Drury and William H. BIGGLESTON, Canterbury, Gentlemen Death of a William Henry BIGGLESTON 1870, Canterbury aged 62 Son Mr. H. M. BIGGLESTON moved to Cornubia on the corner of Puckle Lane and Old Dover Road c. 1890 (architect John Green Hall) 1890's - 1900's Reuben BETTS, Coal Merchant ( 1917 J. M. WATSON, Credit Draper
No. 30 Reine ELGAR ^ John SPAIN, Carpenter ( Harriette WEEKES ( John SPAIN, Carpenter ) 1913 Harry James HOULDEN, Vaccination Officer 1917 H. J. HOULDEN, registrar of births, deaths and marriages Canterbury Baths Co. (ltd.) H. J. HOULDEN, sec. Canterbury Insurance Committee; H. J. HOULDEN, clerk
No. 31 Thomas BOYCOTT, Physcian ^ THE LAURELS photo courtesy of Paul Crampton www.paulcramptonbooks.co.uk/ Percis HARVEY, Principal of High Class School for Girls ( Ada Eva NAISH, Governess (sister) ( Ellen Gertrude FROST, Governess ( Alice Margaret HARVEY, Governess ( 15 girls from age 13 - 17 Purvis HARVEY, School Mistress ) * A School for Young Ladies 1900 - Wanted, re-engagement by lady. Six years' experience in teaching. London, ... and Cambridge certificates. ...Drawing, English, Mathematics, Latin, French, German, Drawing, Painting &c. - K. O'Leary, The Laurels, Canterbury (Journal of Education) Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society; Hon. Represntative, Miss Harvey, The Laurels, Watling Street - 1913 1917 C. W. FINN and Sons, Auctioneers, land agents and valuers (tele. 159)
No. 32 Edmund GRANTHAM, Captain in the Army ^ Sarah Amy TAYLOR, Lodging House Keeper ( 1917 Percy MAYLAM, Esq. Solicitor, (tele. 178) commissioner for oaths and perpetual commissioner
No. 33 Mary Ann GLOVER ^ Amelia POTTER, Lodging House Proprietor ( 1917 Mrs. H. C. BROWNING
No. 34 1847 Mr. Thomas HACKER, 34 Watling Street John WILTSHIER, Painter, Glazier and Plumber ^ Johnathan RUTTER ^ John ELGAR, Commission Agent ( William WILTSHIRE, House Decorator ) 1903 A. WILTSHIRE, registered plumber, Member Sanitary Institute. Plumber, Sanitary Engineer and House Decorator, Gas, Hot and Cold Water Fitter, 34 Watling St., Canterbury. .....Expert on Sanitary Matters.... 1917 Archibald WILTSHIER, Builder, decorator and sanityar engineer (tele. 14y)
No. 35 1832 - 34 George FORTLINE, Beer retailer and Brewer Matilda REEL, Baker and Brewer ^ Alfred Ernest OSTLER, Baker ( Alfred OSTLER, Baker ) 1917 Alfred Ernest OSTLER, Baker
St. Johns Lane / Rose Lane
No. 36 1832 George ASH, Brewer (listed under Pubs and Brewers of Kent) July 15th, 1865 George ASH jr. (No. 1540) Poll for the two knights of the shire, voted B & K (parish of qualification - Saint Mary Bredin) George ASH, Retired Brewer and Landowner *Grandchildren Ann O. Collard, Sophia, Albert ^& James WILTSHIER, Bankers Accountant *
No. 37 1847 Capt. George P. COLLARD, 37 Watling Street 1858 George P. COLLARD, Esq., 37 Watling Street George P. COLLARD, Wine Merchant
No. 38 TOBY PHILPOT INN Maria RANDALL, Victualler 1917 W. SWAIN
No. 39 William R. Skey ^ 1903 Harry BAKER, 39 Watling Street 1917 Mrs. BISHOP
No. 41 1830, Insolvent Debtors - James LAWS, formerly of High Street, Canterbury, out of business, afterwards of Guildhall street, butcher, afterwards of Dovor, and late of No. 41 Watling street, Canterbury, horse dealer. Richard STRINGER, Grocer ^ 1917 DANE JOHN TAVERN, A. C. WHITEAR
Watling Street Square (no thorofare) No. 2, 3, 4
No. 40 Thomas PAYNE, Brewers traveller ) *might work for the Dane John Brewery
No. 41 DANE JOHN TAVERN Alfred H. HADLOW, Publican )
No. 42 1838 Thomas LONGLEY, Chorister in the Cathedral, 42 Watling street William HODGSON, Joiner ) 1917 Herbert AMOS
No. 43 Harried HADLOW, lodging house keeper )
No. 44 William KEMP, Civil Service Clerk, Postal and Telegraph James JORDAN, Tailors Journeyman ) 1917 Mrs. MEPHAM
No. 45 1865 Poll - Francis Samuel SEELEY, 45 Watling Street Francis S. SEELEY, Retired Cabinet maker )
No. 46 Charles HATTON, Retired tailor ) 1917 H. LAWRENCE Purchased by the city in 1951
No. 47 Elizabeth KENNETT ) Purchased by the city in 1951
No. 48 William MERITT, Clock maker, 48 Watling Street Caleb KEMP ) 1917 Charles BANNER
No. 49 George HEWETT, Carter and Contractor ) 1917 Miss Jane MORGAN
Watling Street Square
Dane John Gardens
No. 53 Henry WESTOVER, Printer & Compositor ^
May 1795 The roof of a stable, at the barracks in Watling Street, Canterbury, in which were 62 horses, belonging to the 11th light dragoons, suddenly fell down, the rafters pitching, for want of stays. Though several men were within side, happily they received no material injury, and all the horses were unhurt, though the tiles fell upon them in great abundance. KR
1805-7 Thomas DOCKER, surgeon George ASH, brewer PETTIT and PERKINS, builders
... just beyond the city walls, a Roman Cemetery has been touched upon by excavators for the foundations of a house. Mr. John Brent has been assiduously watching these discoveries on the part of the Kent Archaeological Society. GM 1861
Died, March 30. At Canterbury, aged 88, Mrs. Hannah CAMPBELL, sister of the late Rev. Archibald Colin Campbell of Watling Street. GM 1854
St. Lawrence House, formerly stood on the south side of the Watling Street, and occupied the site of an hospital, founded in 1137 for leprous or contagiously diseased inmates of St. Augustine's Abbey. Sir George Rooke, the celebrated admiral, who derived the estate from Sir William, his father, gave it the name of "The Rook's Nest" and spent the latter part of his life here. The estate has lately been purchased by Richard Milles, Esq. who has taken down the house, and added the adjoining lands to those in his own occupation. Excursions in the county of Kent by Thomas Kitson Cromwell 1822 *Richard Milles, Esq. M.P. for Canterbury, subscriber to Gostling 1779
1824 John NUTT (& town clerk), Watling Street - Listed under Attorneys
1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) Mrs. KELSEY, Watling Street 1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) Mrs. HILL, Watling Street 1838 The Misses KEELER, day (listed under Academies and Seminaries), Watling Street 1847 Thomas BOULTON, Omnibus Proprietor, Watling Street 1847 Mrs. Hannah BOURNE, Watling Street
Excavations lately made in the High street of Canterbury have laid open the foundations of Roman buildings which cross below the present street, proving that it cannot be of so early a date as some have imagined. On the side of the Watling
1850's John SMITH, Schoolmaster, Dane John Acadamey Margaretta JEWDWINE, Landed Proprietor Johnathan RUTTER, Landed Proprietor William ROOTS, Army Forage Contractor Watling Street, Chapel House, George NEETON, Independent Ministher of Union Chapel, Watling Street Edward SANKEY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons London and Licence of the Apothecaries Company, General Practioner Mary STRINGER James JENKINS, Accountant Thomas W. BOULTON, Owner of an Omnibus William HARRISON, Stone Mason Ann JULL, Lodging House Keeper James HOPPER, Ostler Sarah ANDREWS Sidney GOLDSMITH, Grocer Ash HACKER, Builder Jane E. ABBOTT, School Mistress Edward THORNTON, School Master *Will of Edward Thornton of Canterbury, Kent (April 21, 1853) Prob 11/2171
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