Landlords, legends, census records, and lost taverns.
The story behind UK pubs and their history.
The pub history site started as the Essex Pubs site by Ian Hunter, and continued by myself for another twenty years or so. The pob history sites can be brilliant but also very boring.
I am regularly updating and Essex pubs, including those in Billericay Inns and surrounds. I have always been a Billericay Boy, and always will be.
I am visiting the Essex Record Office on a regular weekly basis at present, and now adding the early 1769 to 1825 Alehouse Recognizances to all my Essex pub history records.
The state of public houses are largely a problem caused by the issues of the larger companies owning too much, and keeps coming back into focus.
In the 1990s we saw public houses being closed to avoid anti-competitive law.
And now in 2024, after many pubs closing or entire pub chains going into bankruptcy, and then sold to investment companies, the problem has just got worse.
I have also just found a few broken links to my Holden directories of 1805 to 1811.
I lost the Masonic Lodges link too.
My research in London pub history is amazing, not that anyone has noticed.
Please send me some pictures and other detail to update the sites.