General Chat

How many can we claim between us? My G Grandmother ran one somewhere close to High Wycombe - got the name of it somewhere, will insert when I find it. Another ancestor ran the Green Man at Prestwood. Can we have a good pub crawl between us?

Oh - have one somewhere in the mire - off to find it x

Have some in Essex and Hertfordshire Hertfordshire one was Little Red Lion, High Street, St Albans

Come on Trish whats the one near Wycomebe (Where i grew up)

Dawnie, it's in my filing system - give me an hour or two and I'll find it. Where abouts did you live? My parents house was on the main London Road, just before Hammersley Lane heading out of Wycombe towards Loudwater.

Great Grandfather had one in Norwich...

Trish We lived in Deangarden Rise . I got married at ST Peters Church Loudwater, went to school at Wycombe March, Spring Gardens and Hatters Lane sister went to Wycombe High. Parents only moved away 2 years ago.

one of mine lived next door to one, the white hart in threehouseholds, chalfont st giles. visited there last week, think the car park has replaced the house, shame. jean

My 3x great Uncle and Aunt ran the Grapes in Filey, and the Cross Keys and Kings Head in Nafferton, Yorkshire. My 2x great Grandfather and Grandmother ran a beer house in Ridge, Hertfordshire

Jean, they pulled my parents house down and built a block of flats :-((((( Dawnie, I went to Wycombe Marsh, Spring Onions and hatters Lane too - the worst years of my life at Hatters Lane. Got to go for a while, dinner to cook - again!!!

trish, what a shame, where was your parents house. jean

Trish did you really what years? My dad worked at Hatters lane a good few years after I had left and Mrs Phipps still remembered me and my friend.

My g-g-grandfather - the Black Horse in Abbey Street, Bethnal Green. Don't even think the street is there any more!

My GG Aunt ran The George Inn (famous for a spit turned by a dog in a wheel) with her husband in Lacock, Wiltshire... their name was Beer!! Also supposed to by a Pub in Somerset displaying a coat of Arms belonging to part of my family too.

My husband's great-grandfather and 3 of his sons ran the PAKENHAM Arms on the corner of Pakenham Street & Calthorpe Streets in Islington, it's quite near the Family Records Centre. I have various folk lodging in pubs and also a great-grandmother whose Aunt Nancy Brewer was - appropriately - a beer seller. Also have two great-uncles who ran pubs after they retired from the police force. one of them was in the CROWN in Northwold, Suffolk and the other was either the BLACK HORSE or the WHITE HORSE in Hertford. nell

I've got several, run by different generations of the same family, including one called the House of Commons (guess the landlord's name LOL) in Harbottle, Northumberland. As far as I can make out, only the Rose & Thistle, Alwinton, is still there, and by all accounts thriving.

My Great Great Great Grandfather Howe was a Publican but i discovered that in them days it didnt necessarilymean he ran a Public House. He in actual fact could just have had a licence to sell alcohol from his house. I also have a Great Grandfather in another line who was a Barman. It was in Fulham in 1906 at the time of my grandfathers birth. Fi x

My g-granddad ran the Engin in Walsall, but it's gone now, and a gg Aunt ran the Stand Tavern also in Walsall, it is now called the Starting Gate, and I have ran 2 pubs, one in Portsmouth The Sire Loin of Beef (other wise known as the SLoB) and the Spring Head Tavern in Darlaston, so I think the pub trade is well and truly in the blood. Bev

Just found another - the Jolly Butcher in Farnham Royal, near Eton, was run by the husband of one of my Northumberland publican's daughters. he had a side line - as a butcher. So that will be a pint of your best & a nice piece of rump please landlord

Nana Anna - The George in Lacock is a lovely pub!