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Picture source: John Parkin
The Rose was situated on the huge St. Helier Estate.  It was a big red-brick 1930s 'estate pub' at the corner of Bishopsford Road and Wrythe Lane.  It was demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a Co-op supermarket.
Source: Simon Crook
It was originally built in 1933 as Raleigh's Cafeteria, planned to be a luxury public house where "perpendicular drinking" will be forbidden. It had a first and second class Cafeteria, a Nursery full of toys where Mothers could leave their children and a dance hall capable of holding 600 people. The Cafeteria was named after Raleigh G. Hollingbery, a well known reformer of licensed catering establishments. It appears as Raleighs Cafeteria in Pile’s 1937 directory of Carshalton and appears as The Rose Hotel in a 1939 newspaper article.
Mark Donohue (October 2015)
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Date of photo: 1930s	Picture source: Mark Donohue
Date of photo: 1930s	Picture source: Mark Donohue