Chimney Corner Public House

Chimney Corner October 2007

Chimney Corner Public House: Bedford Road, Kempston Hardwick

This public house was built in 1935 when the new parish of Stewartby was being created. Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service has very little information on the establishment which, at the time of writing [2007] is still a public house. 

Sources:

- RDBP2/672: plans for new public house: 1935;
- Z1205/206: tape of reminiscences by woman whose father built the public house: 1935;
- Z1205/023: tape of reminiscences by Italian prisoner-of-war living in hostel on site: 1942;
- Z1105/1: liquor licence traders survey form: 1960;
- PCStewartby: 18/4: planning application for new conservatory: 1984 

List of Licensees: note that this is not a complete list. Italics indicate licensees whose beginning and/or end dates are not known:

1959: P.F.Raes;
1960: Hubert Crowsley;
1965-1968: Hubert Crowsley and Walter John Alsford;
1968-1969: Hubert Crowsley and James Herron;
1969-1970: Hubert Crowsley and Roy Robinson Pipkin
1970: Hubert Crowsley and John Valentine Hughes;
1970-1971: Hubert Crowsley and Walter John Smith;
1971: Hubert Crowsley and Cyril Charles Wallis;
1971-1974: Hubert Crowsley and Robert Eric Andrews;
1974-1976: Hubert Crowsley and John Franklin;
1976-1977: Richard Rawson Wolstenholme Hancock and John Franklin;
1977-1995: John Colin Tait