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Chequers, 16 Duke Street, Westminster SW1

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Chequers Tavern, 16 Duke Street, SW1 - in March 2007

Chequers Tavern, 16 Duke Street, SW1 - in March 2007

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The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1839/Jno Bason/../../../Pigot's Directory ****

1841/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1851/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1856/John Bawn/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1869/Mrs A Chandler/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1881/Alfred Ware/Licensed Victualler/45/Chichester East Lavant/Census ****
1881/Maria Ware/Wife/39/Kings Lynn Roydon/Census
1881/infant Ware/Son/1 week/St James Westminster/Census
1881/Jane Wingrove/Cook/17/Wandsworth/Census
1881/George Edwards/Servant/26/Weedon, Northampton/Census
1881/Rose Ford/Servant/18/../Census
1881/Sarah Copping/Nurse/60/Howland Street, Middlesex/Census

1882/Alfred Ware/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1884/George Tester/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1891/Fredk Wm Pyne/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1895/Miss Mary Ann Elizabeth Young/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1899/Mrs. Mary Ann Elizabeth Neal/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1910/Miss Clara Poole/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1915/Fredk Willis Philpot/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1921/Fredk John Norris/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1926 - 1934/H L Hood/../../../BT Phonebooks **

In 1933,  An English Foreign Office clerk called Ernest Oldham drank in there pretty much all day every day through the summer of 1933. He was spying for the Soviet Union, and close to breakdown due to the pressure he was under from his agent handler. The pub is just across St James's park from his old office at King Charles St, from where he was stealing documents.
He was under surveillance through August and September, including many times at the Chequers. In one report the Special Branch detective notes that his acquaintances were "certain female servants from adjoining flats, an artist named Shenaton, whom I have never seen other than in a state of helpless intoxication, and various antique dealers in the Street who use the house." Hood the landlord warned him to stay off the spirits, as it would kill him. But, in the end, he took his own life in September, with his head in a gas oven. **

1934/Mrs Jessie Hood/../../../Kellys Directory ****

1938/Mrs Jessie Hood/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1939 - 1940/J Hood/../../../BT Phonebooks **

1944/Mrs Gertrude Daisy Moore/../../../Post Office Directory ****


** Provided By Edward Kershaw

**** 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.
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All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); it is NOT available for commercial usage without explicit permission.
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