Pub History Society

The main reason for this newsletter is to just remind you about our AGM which we will be holding this Saturday (3rd April 2004) at noon. The venue is the upstairs room of the Wenlock Arms, Wenlock St, London, N1.

For directions and to find out all about this superb North London boozer please visit their website at www.wenlock-arms.co.uk

All are welcome - Members and Non-Members alike.

If you are able to make it please let me know by email.

Other Diary Dates

Sat May 22nd Black Country for mild pubs- West Midlands - Telford by bus

Sun 23rd May 2004 Tipplefair 7 The Largest Collectors Event of it's Kind. Find out more at www.tipples.net

Sat July 10th Red Lion, Snargate and Rye via Hastings (providing the train company rejoins the Groupsave scheme this summer).

Contact Steve Williams to register your interest.

Some useful websites

www.HeanorHistory.org.uk/heanor.htm is devoted to the pubs of Heanor in 1888, and includes photographs of some of the now disappeared pubs of this town on the Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire border. Other pages on the site also contain references to the local pubs.

Access to Archives - a2a - holds 6.3 million catalogue references. It covers 345 record offices, libraries, museums and other repositories throughout England.

Among the catalogues now online for the first time are details of 53,000 insurance policies of the Sun Fire Office, 1816-1824.
www.a2a.org.uk/default.asp

Collectable pub postcards, breweriana and other material.

Have any of you visited Ebay?

I know that we get the usual adverts for digital cameras, CDs, tellys and such like but I have discovered a large section of

collectables. Postcards seem to feature bygone pubs occasionally, I found 97 listed on Ebay.

There also appears to be a fairly large section on Breweriana which includes everything from beer mats to bottle labels and pub signs to ashtrays.

The best way I found to find these items was to do use the Ebay search box and type in 'postcard' and 'inn' or 'pub' but probably the best way is to just browse.

Some postcards of interest spotted on Ebay (at 10pm 29th March 2004).

Lamb Sheep St, Burford, Oxon
Cock Fosters inn, London (1914)
Northfield Inn, Speldhurst, Kent
Plough Inn accident (Tree fallen though roof!), Datchet, Bucks

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

I am researching pubs of WISBECH in Cambridgeshire...just the town & outskirts...not the surrounding villages. I'm fully conversant with 'The Inns & Taverns of Wisbech' by Arthur Oldham (written 1950) published by Spindrift in 1993.

I require anything to do with Wisbech pubs especially old photos, also any family tree info relating to Wisbech pubs.

I've scoured nearly every directory (Pigot's, Robson's & Kelly's etc) & I am tackling the newspapers from 1845 onwards but it's the odd casual contact that very often brings the new info....

Please help. PS Wonderful website!!

andy.ketley@care4free.net

Some Queries

Inn Keeper at Fen Street, Suffolk

I'm researching the family tree, and have just recently come across John Powley and his wife Jane Powley. John was an Inn Keeper at Fen Street, Suffolk, in the 1841 and 1851 census. I'm trying to locate the pub. Any help would be most greatly appreciated.

Kind regards.

Anne
annepow@xtra.co.nz

White Hart Inn, Greenford, Ealing area

I have a particular interest in the White Hart Inn in Greenford as my husband's ggrandmother and grandfather and family were the proprietors in 1901.( Jane A Taylor and Howell Macy Taylor.)

Is there anyone who knows if the pub is still there?

Is there a web site where I can find out more about it and it’s history?

I would be grateful for any help.

Thanks
Heather Tayelor in South Africa.
ctayelor@mweb.co.za

In reply to Heather

Hello Heather

The White Hart Inn is still there although these days it is on the edge of a large road junction with the Hayes By Pass that runs down to London Heathrow Airport.

Best Wishes

John Lovelock
Buckinghamshire
UK

Isle of Wight - Corner House Pub

I have some information on a picture in Kevin Mitchell’s Newport (Isle of Wight)

Pub’s book. The lady standing outside The Corner House Pub, New St. is my Great Great Grandmother, Amy Elizabeth West. Is there anyone who could give me a contact address for Mr. Mitchell as I Would love to get a copy of the picture.

Thank you,

Joanne Davis
jobeywendes@fsmail.net

Ye Olde Shippe Tavern, Strand in London

My Grandfather was Harry Arthur Banks and his father George Chapman Banks. According to a relative the family at one time (have no idea exactly when but probably sometime between 1860 and 1890), the family ran a pub called "Ye Olde Shippe Tavern" in the Strand in London. This relative tells me that her mother had a photograph of George and his son taken outside the pub. This pub still exists today and has quite a chequered history. The problem is that I have been unable to find any firm connection between my Banks family and the pub. I did find a record which details George Chapman Banks occupation as being that of "retired hotel keeper"

If anyone can help me with this or advise where I might be able to track down any

records, I would be really grateful.

Many thanks

Elaine

elainedavis100@btinternet.com

Oxted brewing and malting family

I am looking for information about my family's (Lashmar) involvement in brewing

and pubs in Oxted, Surrey between about 1800 and 1900. They apparently were

involved in growing hops, as brewers, maltsers, and also ran a pub on High Street

in Oxted. I heard also that at some point the name Lashmar was apparently fairly

well known in the business. I'm from Vancouver, Canada, and would greatly appreciate some suggestions.

Many thanks!

Murray Lashmar

mlashmar@axionet.com

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