New Inn
New Inn: 7 King Street, Potton
New Inn 1904 [Ref.X758/1/8/96]
Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service does not have much material on this licensed house save for registers of licensees and some records showing it was owned by Biggleswade brewers Wells & Company. This firm was bought by Kent businessman George Winch in 1899 for his son Edward Bluett Winch. The New Inn closed in 1921
References:
- P64/5/1-4: bills from public house: C19;
- 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;
-- Z1039/34/1: epitome of admission of Frederick Archdale and subsequent enfranchisement: 1895-1899;
- GK1/36: three sales catalogues bound together: Wells & Company of Biggleswade 1898; Henlow Brewery 1899; Baldock Brewery Limited 1903;
- Z1039/34/2a: conveyance of licensed properties from Frederick Archdale, Charles Samuel Lindsell, Henry Martin Lindsell and Arthur Knox Lindsell to Wells & Winch: 1899
former New Inn 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:
1822-1830: William Franklin;
1839: Samuel Gravestock;
1869-1874: Eliza Armond;
1874-1878: Samuel Manning;
1878-1882: William Watkinson;
1882-1886: Henry Keeling;
1886-1887: Charles Chamberlain;
1887-1888: Mary Juliana Chamberlain;
1888-1890: Frederick William Collins;
1890-1897: Edward Williams;
1897-1906: Benjamin Bland;
1906-1921: Thomas Charter
Public house closed 1921