The Locomotive Public House Potton

Locomotive Public House: 5 Deepdale, Potton

Locomotive c.1900 [Ref.X758/1/17/35]

The deeds to the Locomotive (1826-1894) are still held by Charles Wells Limited, the records at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service being confined to licensing registers and some images. The public house| is now closed and a private house, though the evidence of its past is still very obvious as the modern photograph shows.

References:
- HF143/1: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1872-1873;
- HF143/2: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1874-1877;
- HF143/3: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1878-1881;
- HF143/4: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1882-1890;
- HF143/5: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1891-1900;
- HF143/6: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1900-1914;
- X758/1/17/35: postcard of Deepdale including public house: c.1900;
- PSBW8/1: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1903-1915;
- X704/275: photograph of postcard: c.1920s;
- WL801/39: glass plate negative: c.1925;
- PSBW8/2: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1956-1972;
- PSBW8/3: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade and North Bedfordshire Petty Sessional Divisions: 1976-1980;
- WL722/29: "Pint Pot" in-house magazine of Charles Wells with photograph of Locomotive: 1980;
- Bedfordshire Magazine xxiv.p.275: interior photograph: c.1994

former Locomotive Mar 2007

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

1872-1874: James Lenton;
1874-1879: Joseph Leonard;
1879-1888: James Brown Pigott;
1888: James Tell;
1888-1894: Edwin Roberts;
1894-1896: Annie Roberts;
1896-1897: George Webb;
1897-1902: George Peacock;
1902-1910: Emma Peacock;
1910-1920: Arthur James Gale;
1924: Edward Hutchinson;
1928: Mrs.Louis Hutchinson;
1931-1936: John Austin;
1940: William Mallett;
1957: Edward Allen Cheyne;
1957: Donald Anderson Jardine;
1957-1959: George Henry Jones;
1959-1962: Maud Maves;
1962-1963: Thomas James Flannery;
1963-1966: Alexander Brodie;
1966: Peter Robert Fielding Jameson;
1966-1970: Victor Douglas Bruton;
1970-1972: Samuel John Bellingham;
1972: David Michael Wallace;
1976: C.J.A.Clark