~ 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"
Old Dover Road to St. Margaret's Street (right from Old Dover Road)
No. 1
Built by William BALDOCK for George QUESTED
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 (
1899 it became a private house and was re-named Oswald House, it was destroyed in 1942
1917 W. Pembroke JONES Esq., and The Misses
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
JAMES JEUDWINE
Who died March 23rd 1784. Aged 43.
Also Harriot Holt his wife
Who died August 24th, 1824(?) Aged 88
Harriot Alexander Gradidge. Their Daughter
Died at Folkstone July 12th 1808. Aged 44.
William James their son died April 10th 1804. Aged 38.
John Their youngest son died Oct 22nd 1835. Aged 64. And was buried
at St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury.
This tablet is erected by the two surviving
Daughters of James & Harriot Holt Jeudwine
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
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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
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1917 Rev. W. EDMONDSON
No. 7
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
Maria STRINGER ^
Mary BUNCE
1917 J. VAUGHAN
No. 9
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)
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 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, 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
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
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On this road, at
a very small distance from St. Margaret's street, before you
come to the Dunjeon and Ridingate, is a large capital mansion
house, formerly the property and residence of the family of
Man, who were possessed of the aldermanry of Westgate, held
of the crown in king Henry III's reign, from which time they
continued resident in this city. In Henry VIII's reign, John
Man, gentleman was of Canterbury, as appears by his deed dated
in the 8th year of it, sealed with his coat of arms, which was,
Or, a chevron ermine, between three lions rampant-guardant,
sable. His great-grandson William Man, esq. resided in this
parish of St. Mary Bredin (the church of which is situated close
to the gardens of this house northward) whose son Sir Charles
Man, anno I Charles I. built this mansion, which has a most
respectable appearance; at length, after it had continued in
his descendants till the latter end of the last century, it
was alienated by one of them to the family of Denew, which has
resided at Staplegate in this city for many descents; one of
whom Nathaniel Denew, resided here, and dying in 1720, left
it to his widow Dorothy, eldest daughter of Sir Abraham Jacob,
of Dover, and the alienate it to Capt. Humphry Pudner, who died
possessed of it in 1753, upon which it passed by his will to
his daughter Katherine, wife of Thomas Barrett, esq. of Lee,
in the county whom she survived, and afterwards sold it to Mrs.
Cecilia Scott, of the family of Scott's hall, who resided in
it, and dying unmarried in 1785, devised it by her last will
to her brother William Scott, esq. of Blendon hall, in Bexley,
in this county, who afterwards removed hither, and now resides
in it.
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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
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 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 Godfrey Kennett ^
Zachariah PRENTICE, Registered General Medical Practioner )
1917 R. C. KIRKWOOD
No. 22
Jessie SCOTT ^
Eliza KEELER, Lodging House ^
Walter WILDEY, Builders Clerk (
Walter Wildey, Builders Surveyor )
1917 Warters and Hall, Dressmakers
No. 23
David Hancock %
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
William PIERSON, Victualler %
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
No. 25
1838 (listed under Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Retired Persons) John LE GRAND, 25 Watling Street
Caroline LeGrand %
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
1847 Henry WATERMAN, 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, 1847 Poll Book
David BELEAJOR, General Practioner & Apothocary %
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
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. 42
1838 Thomas LONGLEY, Chorister in the Cathedral, 42 Watling street
1917 Herbert AMOS
No. 44
William KEMP, Civil Service Clerk, Postal and Telegraph
1917 Mrs. MEPHAM
No. 45
1865 Poll - Francis Samuel SEELEY, 45 Watling Street
No. 46
1917 H. LAWRENCE
Purchased by the city in 1951
No. 47
Purchased by the city in 1951
No. 48
William MERITT, Clock maker, 48 Watling Street
1917 Charles BANNER
No. 49
1917 Miss Jane MORGAN
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. (The Kentish Register)
... 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. The Gentlemen's Magazine 1861
Died, March 30. At Canterbury, aged 88, Mrs. Hannah CAMPBELL, sister of the late Rev. Archibald Colin Campbell of Watling Street. The Gentlemen's Magazine 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
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
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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