Railway Inn

Railway Inn Beerhouse: 11 Sandy Road, Potton

former Railway Inn Mar 2007

This beerhouse |was conveniently placed to serve Potton Station|. The only records held by Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service are mentions in various registers of alehouse licences. The beerhouse was owned by Ashwell [Hertfordshire] brewers E.K. & H.Fordham and closed in 1917.

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

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

1872-1896: Daniel Brown;
1896-1898: Catherine Brown;
1898-191: John Duffin;
1911-1913: Charles Odell;
1913-1914: William Watson;
1914: Ernest Whitfield
Beerhouse closed 1917