The story behind UK pubs and their history.
The pub history site started as the Essex Pubs site by Ian Hunter, and continued by myself, Kevan Wilding. My sites are brilliant, even if google does not like my content because it is factual and correct, unlike their AI and search engine which is generally, completely wrong, and total rubbish.
I have recently updated the pubs and Billericay Inns and surrounds from an excellent resource I found online, listing the Inns in 1962. I have always been a Billericay Boy, and always will be.
In fact, I have started visiting the Essex Record Office on a regular basis, and I am now adding the early 1769 to 1825 Alehouse Recognizances to all my Essex pub history records.
The state of public houses are largely a problem caused by the issues of the larger companies owning too much, and keeps coming back into focus.
In the 1990s we saw public houses being closed to avoid anti-competitive law.
And now in 2024, after many pubs closing or entire pub chains going into bankruptcy, and then sold to investment companies, the problem has just got worse.
I have also just found a few broken links to my Holden directories of 1805 to 1811.
I lost the Masonic Lodges link too.
And I am still updating this pub history site despite all of the sites which plainly steal all of my hard work, in Kent, Cambridge, Essex and Sussex; and probably a whole lot more. A back link would be welcome.
I did remove quite a number of counties on the site. Sadly. I also have lost the work I did in adding York pub history to this site, and I am adding it to my pubshistory.com site which is one of these wordpress sites. So here goes - York pub history; and a whole lot more since.
My research in London pub history is amazing, not that anyone has noticed.
Please send me some pictures and other detail to update the sites.