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.
Old English Gentleman, Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Cheshunt index
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in
Hertfordshire . The Hertfordshire 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.
My great-grandfather, Joseph Searle, is shown in Kelly's Herts Directory of
1902, 1906 and 1908 as being a ‘beer retailer’ in Turners Hill, Cheshunt.
The electoral roll of 1906 shows him residing at the Old English Gentleman.
He is not listed in the 1910 edition of Kelly’s (Herts). ***
The 1901 census records him living in Edmonton, N9, and Kelly’s Essex
Directory gives his 1917 address as 48, Ashdown Road, Saffron Walden (the
same address lists him as a beer retailer in the 1922 Kellys directory). Joseph
Searle is listed as resident at The
Axe and Compasses (now the Axe) in the
same year. (Google maps now give the address of The Axe as 60, Ashdon Road),
I cannot be sure of when he moved to the Old English Gentleman, or when he
left it. I only know he was elsewhere in 1901. In 1914, he is listed as a
beer retailer at 55 Castle Street, Saffron Walden, this would be the
Five
Bells.***
In 1922 and 1925 you cite Kelly’s (Essex) as showing Joseph with two
addresses and two pubs: The Axe, and also
The Nags Head
in Braintree. Is this likely,
or are there two Joseph Searles? The last entry for the Nags head is 1937
with J Searle, proprietor. It is known that my great-grandfather died in
that year. ***
1902/Joseph Searle/Beer Retailer/../../Kellys Directory ***
1904/Joseph Searle/Beer Retailer/../../Kellys Directory ***
1906/Joseph Searle/Beer Retailer/../../Electoral Role ***
1908/Joseph Searle/Beer Retailer/../../Kellys Directory ***
1929/George James Coe/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory ****
1937/Mrs Mary Eliz Coe/../../../Post Office Directory ****
** Provided By Stephen Harris
**** 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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