10 Charing Cross

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Property name

10 Charing Cross

Other names

Lion Hotel

Location

Charing Cross, St Helier

Type of property

Former town house, and public house, now rebuilt as part of corner office block

Valuations

• No 10 was sold by Clifford Henry Batho, son of John, to Ann Street Brewery in 1937 for £1,525

Families associated with the property

• Keeping: In 1941 Albert Henry Keeping (1889- ) his wife Florence Maud, nee Goodrich (1904- ), and daughter Joy Florence (1930- ) were living here

Census returns

• 1861 – John Mallet (66) bootmaker; Elisa Emelia Mallet (20). Thomas George William Labey (30, house painter, Ann (29), Alice Jane (5)
• 1871 – Sarah Knight (60), shop assistant, Elizabeth and Anne, sisters, dressmakers
• 1881 – Adelon Louis (45), tobacconist
• 1891 – Alfred Piquet (35), tobacco factory foreman
• 1901 – Alfred Piquet (45) tobacco cutter, wife Lydia (38)

Almanac listings

• 1874 - Miss Knight, dressmaker
• 1880 - Eugenie Louis, tobacconist
• 1886-1915 - A C Piquet, tobacconist
• 1920-1930 - F E J Laurens
• 1935 - D Stuart
• 1950-1955 - Lion Hotel, F W Ferrand
• 1960-1990 - Lion Hotel, A H Keeping