The Queens Head - c1900 - 1910
Any history of licensed premises in Blunham is complicated by the fact that there have been Two seperate Pubs / Beerhouses both starting as the Ragged Staff and later The Salutation, so I will keep them seperate to avoid confusion. - ( the Queens Head had three names )
RECORD OF LANDLORDS & TENANTS
The Ragged Staff, later to be The Salutation during - | 1786- 1846 |
Henry Usher sells The Salutation (then) for £345 to a Joseph Lovell. | 1846- 1865 |
1st Licence - and renamed - The Queens Head |
1847 |
Lovell sells the Inn to a Herbert, Albury Dunnage | 1865-1869 |
James Boness. | 1869-1889 |
Robert Beadle | 1889-1891 |
Eliz. White | 1891-1893 |
William, John White ( 1yr . ) | 1893-1894 |
Records show a James, John Kither and
Jane Arthur (Arthur Jane?) were also domicile |
1894 |
William James Phipper (or Kither ?) | 1894-1897 |
Sold to Charles Wells , Brewers of Bedford |
1895 |
Wm. & Hannah Giggle . (Grandad and Grandmum to a Mr Brown, the Gamekeeper at Tempsford - Hall, - 2 miles away) - | 1897-1904 |
Hannah Giggle ,Widow | 1904-1908 |
John Burton | 1908-1914 |
Now we have a Blunham Population of 603 - served by the 8 Pubs in - |
1909 |
Herbert Currant, who later moves over to The Horseshoes, stays for 30yrs - (40yrs as a Landlord) |
1914-1924 |
The Queens Head is sold by Chas. Wells to a father & son, - ‘both’ called Harry, Thom. Dennis. Later closes during 1926 |
1924-1927 |
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It now becomes a Police House, so for Local Interest, some Tenants from records researched.
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PC Harry Ashton : and family. - New ref - a 'Bygones' entry in a local Newspaper dated - 08/03/1991 - Biggleswade, by a Mrs King ( nee Ashton) , a daughter and one of 11 brothers and sisters. re - this 1927 entry. ( record / copy to hand ) | 1927-1934 |
Pc Harry Whitemore then later PC Jack Frith & families | 1934-1942 |
Henry, Stanley Green, (a Great Barford man) | 1942-1957 |
Peter and Rosalie Davis , now in 2000, only one Occupier - Son ? |
Oct 1957 to date |
THE ORIGIN OF A 'RAGGED STAFF'
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Last Revision made by Bill Exley on - 6th Apr -2023
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