Horse and Jockey Public House

Horse and Jockey Public House: 39 King Street, Potton

former Horse & Jockey Mar 2007

The Horse & Jockey began as a beerhouse| in the mid 19th century, the first known reference being in the register of alehouse licences for 1872. It was a licensed house of Ashwell [Hertfordshire] brewers E.K. & H.Fordham. This firm was taken over by J.W.Green Limited of Luton in 1952, Green merging with Flowers Breweries and adopting the latter name in 1954. Whitbread bought out Flowers in 1962. The beerhouse became a fully licensed public house on 6 Feb 1953. It closed in 1971.

The Horse & Jockey was valued under the 1925 Rating Valuation Act in 1927. the valuer found it was a: "very good modernized building" consisting of 3 bedrooms upstairs with a tap room, parlour and kitchen below; outside was a two stall stable with a loft over. The business sold one to one and a half barrels of mild and half a barrel of bitter per week with "very little bottled" trade.

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;
- PSBW8/1: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1903-1915;
- DV1/C/12: Rating valuation: 1927;
- PSBW8/2: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1956-1972

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

1872-1876: John Seamer;
1876-1880: Alfred Hill;
1880-1885: Charles Peacock;
1885-1886: Thomas Dazley;
1886-1892: Henry Jennings;
1892-1899: Edward Doughty;
1899-1900: George Thake;
1900: Robert Bye;
1900-1907: Charles Titchmarsh;
1907-1928: Tom Pike;
1931-1936: William Alfred Papworth;
1940: Horace Wilfred Petchey;
1957-1971: Leslie Alwyn Dennis;
1971: Frank Ronald Raines
Public house closed 1971