Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address, i.e. use the search box below.
The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs, beer retailers, taverns and hotels; and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940.
All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); is NOT available for commercial usage without explicit permission.
Many of the Pubs are still open, as I do not differentiate between dead and open Pubs.
The site is updated every day, mainly during pub opening hours.
Please contact: Kevan with any updates and additional details to the site/s. Thanks.
George Inn, Babraham, Cambridgeshire
The George Inn, Babraham - circa
1918 with landlord Percy James Hunt
Percy James Hunt and daughter -
circa 1918
Kindly provided by Janet
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in
Cambridgeshire . The Cambridgeshire listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers
and Visitors.
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1869/Mrs Ann Ruse/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1879/Mrs Ann Ruse/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1883/George Ruse/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1891/George R Unwin/Licensed Victualler/38/Little Abington, Cambs/Census
****
1891/Clara Unwin/Wife/38/Thaxted, Essex/Census
1891/Clara J Unwin/Daughter/2/Babraham, Cambs/Census
1891/Lilly B Unwin/Daughter/2 months/Babraham, Cambs/Census
1891/Mary Bayford/Visitor, Widow/59/Thaxted, Essex/Census
1891/Elizabeth Godfrey/General Servant/13/Little Shelford, Cambs/Census
1892/George Robert Unwin/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1896/George Robert Unwin/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1904/George Robert Unwin/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1916/Walter Farrance Williams/Manager/../../Kellys Directory ****
My grandfather ran the pub but unfortunately I do not have the exact dates.
I think it would have been following Walter Farrance. My mother was born in
1907 and they were living there when she was at senior school in Cambridge
and after she left school, when she used to deliver telegrams for the Post
Office opposite the pub.
From that I think they would have been there from about 1918, I know they
were living in Whittlesford in 1935 when my mother was married. *
* Provided By Janet
**** Provided By
Kevan
Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address.
The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940. The site is updated every day.
Contact: Kevan with any updates and additions.
All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); it is NOT available for commercial usage without explicit permission.
The historical trade directory and census listing of all of London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire
Oxfordshire, and Dorset. If you are searching for a historical address, try the census and street directory database. This is a Victorian view on the streets of london and the south of England.
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