The story behind our pub history and investment in the UK.
The pub history site started as the Essex Pubs site by Ian Hunter, and continued by myself, Kevan Wilding. That was probably 25 years ago, it has been a while. I have also moved back to Essex.
I have recently updated the pubs and Billericay Inns and surrounds from an excellent resource I found online, listing the Inns in 1962.
In fact, I have started visiting the Essex Record Office on a regular basis, and I am now adding the early 1769 and 1825 Alehouse Recognizances to all 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 and Sussex; and probably a whole lot more.
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 planning on adding it to my pubshistory.com site which is one of these wordpress sites. So here goes - York pub history.
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.