Royal Oak Beerhouse: Biggleswade Road, Upper Caldecote

former Royal Oak Jul 2007

Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service has no material on thie beerhouse| other trhan mentions of beer sellers in directories and entries in various registers of licensed premises. This is because the property was owned by Baldock brewers Simpson and the deeds are held by Hertfordshire Archives Service.

In 1927, in common with the rest of Bedfordshire, Upper Caldecote was valued under the terms of the Rating Valuation Act 1925. Every piece of land and building was valued and the valuer found at the Royal Oak [DV1/C/5/45]: a living room; kitchen; tap room; parlour; cellar; four bedrooms; washhouse and earth closet; brick and slate stable and cart shed. Trade was one barrel of beer and four dozen bottles of beer per week; as to takings: "can't say". The beerhouse closed at some time between this and 1957 when it is omitted from a register of licensed premises held by Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service

References

- HF143/1: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade Petty Sessional Division: 1872-1873;
- CRT110/102: list of deeds of Simpson of Baldock held at Hertfordshire Record Office: 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;
- PSBW8/2: Register of Alehouse Licences - Biggleswade
- DV1/C/5: 1925 rating Valuation Act survey: 1927
- P142/28/8/3: photograph: 1985 

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

1853-1882: William Lovell;
1882-1908: Arthur Woodward;
1908-1911: James William Woodward;
1911-1927: Horace Frederick Maudlin