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RED LION AND STAR (LEFT) The High Street looking towards the Angel. On the left is thought to be the Red Lion and Star public house an ancient building with massive oak beams and a carved ceiling. It was originally the Ferry House, as a creek of the Medway flowed to within a few yards opposite. Next door is Leonard Dale's grocers, opposite and facing the junction is the original Angel Inn and next door to that the premises of Henry Palmer, cabinet maker.
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RED LION AND STAR 166/7 HIGH ST. STROOD KENT.
Stephen Rowing was my G/Grandfather. He was the licensed Victualler of this pub from about 1864/5 until it was demolished in 1895/6. In the 1881 census Stephen 45 lived here with his wife Frances 42, their 3 daughter's Sarah Ann 18, Charlotte 12, Frances 9 and their 2 son's William 16 and James aged 11. There was a domestic servant Annie Cripps 22 and five lodger's William Stiff 65, John Ward 65, Harry Phyall 20, William Clark 29 and James Martin aged 40. Stephen and Frances's eldest daughter Mary Ann was living at 10 Pearson St. Strood with her husband Thomas Blake Hill and their 2 daughter's Frances 3 and Esther aged 1. The eldest son Edwin was at Rochester St. Margaret Kent and was mate of the Vessel "Willie". John who would have been about 14 does not appear in the census. William and Charlotte (before her marriage) assisted their father as bar staff. |
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THE CECIL ARMS, CLIFFE RD STROOD.
Stephen ran the Cecil until 1900. He died in 1909 and is buried in Strood Cemetery along with his wife Frances (nee Pooley) and his son William Bennett Rowing.
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OLD STROOD GATE, TAKEN DOWN 30th NOVEMBER 1876.
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