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Earlier directories refer to the West Norwood Hotel.
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in the Lambeth parish, Surrey, London. This includes Kennington, Brixton, Lambeth, Norwood, Peckham & Waterloo Road.
Norwood Hotel, 3 Knights Hill, Norwood SE27 - circa 1910
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Great Northwood, 3 Knights Hill, Norwood SE27 - in 2017
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Residents at this address.
1881/Henry Osborne/Licensed Victualler/48/Denham, Suffolk/Census
1881/Mary Ann Osborne/Wife/44/Ramsgate, Kent/Census
1881/William Henry Osborne/Son, Barman/18/Walthamstow, Essex/Census
1881/Henry James Osborne/Son/14/Walthamstow, Essex/Census
1881/Emma Brown/General Servant, Widow/43/Westminster, Middlesex/Census
1891/Jn Hablett/../../../../Surrey Post Office Directory
1896/J C Moss/../../../../Post Office Directory
1911/George James Foster/../../../../Post Office Directory
1911/James Howard/Licensed Victualler/54/City of London/Census
1911/Caroline Mary Howard/Wife, Assistant/51/Chelsea, London/Census
1911/Lillian Auckland/Barmaid/26/Hackney, London/Census
1911/Mabel Jackson/Barmaid/24/Kent/Census
1911/Florence Barnes/Servant/28/Chislehurst, Kent/Census
1911/Alice Thorpe/Cook/23/Eastbourne, Sussex/Census
1911/Edward Gage/Barman/26/Bethnal Green, London/Census
1917/Mrs Caroline Mary Howard/../../../../Post Office Directory
Charlotte Elizabeth Louise Thiele married John William Smith, publican on
28th May 1905. They had their first, and only, child Charlotte Alice Miriam
Smith born in Hoxton in 1907. The 1911 census has John Smith and family
living at “The Duncannon” 3,
Duncannon Street St Martin in the Fields as the publican, with Charlotte
assisting in the business, the clincher being the annotation “father German”
with Nellie Lucy Thiele “sister in law” (misspelt Shiele) living in aged 18
noted as a “nursemaid domestic”, again, father noted as German. Six staff
members are listed excluding the Smiths and Nellie. The Telephone Directory
has John still there in 1913. *
The couple appear to have moved to the Norwood Hotel 3, Knights Hill Norwood
by the end of the Great War, with John William Smith shewing as the licensee
in 1919 and 1921, The Norwood Hotel still exists, now as the “Great
Northwood Hotel” (2016) and is listed as an “Imposing mid-19th Century
public house in red brick with stucco dressings in a Jacobean style”.
Charlotte senior died of consumption in Switzerland having gone there in the
hope of a cure. This is borne out by her letters of administration which has
her address as Tarrazona Mansions Boscombe, whilst having died at Territet
Montreux Switzerland (on the “Vaud Riviera” overlooking Lake Geneva) on
16-9-1922. Administration was granted to Charlotte’s husband John William
Smith publican.
John William Smith, licensed victualler, married Charlotte’s first cousin
Edith Mills’ the widow of John Deardon Mills in Islington in 1927. *
1919/John William Smith/../../../../Post Office Directory
1921/John W Smith/../../../../Hughes Directory
1934/John William Smith/../../../../Kellys Directory
1938/Rowland Walker/../../../../Post Office Directory
1944/Rowland Walker/../../../../Post Office Directory
* Provided By Jeff Stumbke
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